Paris (AFP) Jan 22, 2010 - French President Nicolas Sarkozy Friday urged monthly meetings of 28 nations to better prepare for December's climate conference in Mexico after the failure to get a binding treaty in Copenhagen.
Moscow (AFP) Jan 22, 2010 - A leak from Russia's new Siberian oil pipeline shows the potentially damaging consequences the project could have for the endangered Siberian tiger, an environmental campaign group warned on Friday.
Arlington VA (SPX) Jan 21, 2010 - OPOWER has announced that Xcel Energy has launched a new energy efficiency program based on the OPOWER Home Energy Reports. Fifty-thousand randomly selected homeowners in the St. Paul, Minn., area will be participating in a Home Energy Reporting program that provides residential customers with valuable information that can help them improve the energy efficiency in their homes and save on monthly natural gas and electricity bills.
London (AFP) Jan 20, 2010 - Installing wind turbines and solar panels in people's homes is eco-bling that will not help meet Britain's targets on cutting carbon emissions, engineers warned Wednesday.
New York (AFP) Jan 20, 2010 - Oil prices weakened Wednesday amid market concerns that a credit squeeze in China and swelling US stockpiles could dampen demand for the key commodity.
Tehran (AFP) Jan 20, 2010 - Iran has signed a one-billion-euro (1.44-billion-dollar) deal with a German firm to build 100 gas turbo-compressors, an industry official said in newspapers on Wednesday.
Beijing (AFP) Jan 19, 2010 - China's Sinopec has said it is in talks with British oil giant BP to develop shale gas reserves, as Beijing tries to secure access to natural resources to fuel its fast-growing economy.
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 19, 2010 - On the eve of a meeting on the Cape Wind clean energy project with U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Clean Power Now Executive Director Barbara Hill issued the following statement:
Addis Ababa (AFP) Jan 19, 2010 - Ethiopia, which has just inaugurated its largest hydro-electric power station to date, hopes to soon complete a programme that will generate not only enough power for the country's needs but also for export.
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 19, 2010 - New experiments on a recently discovered class of iron-based superconductors suggest that the ability of their electrons to conduct electricity without resistance is directly connected with the magnetic properties of those electrons.
Walnut Creek CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2010 - Soybean, one of the most important global sources of protein and oil, is now the first legume species with a published complete draft genome sequence.
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 19, 2010 - Would you pay more for certain products to save the planet? That's the question behind the burgeoning carbon-offset industry - proponents pay more money for carbon-producing activities (such as flying), with the idea that the carbon emissions will be balanced out by funding for alternative energy sources.
Brussels (AFP) Jan 18, 2010 - The European Union and Iraq signed an agreement Monday to strengthen their energy cooperation in areas such as natural gas, energy security and renewables, a Brussels spokesman said.
Jodhpur, India (AFP) Jan 18, 2010 - A London-based environmentalist driving a biofuel-powered bus around the world was freed on bail by a judge in India on Monday after being arrested for illegally using a satellite telephone.
Abu Dhabi (AFP) Jan 18, 2010 - World leaders raised a fresh alarm on global warming Monday, urging international action to increase use of clean energy at a four-day forum that opened in the oil-rich emirate of Abu Dhabi.
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 17, 2010 - Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada told his Chinese counterpart Sunday that Tokyo would take action if China violates a 2008 agreement over disputed gas exploration projects.
