Berlin (UPI) Mar 24, 2009 - Countering Germany's overall economic trend, the renewable energy industry boomed in 2009, supplying more than 10 percent of the country's energy for the first time.
Washington (AFP) March 24, 2009 - President Barack Obama expressed confidence Tuesday that a budget plan being thrashed out by lawmakers will include a cap-and-trade system to cut carbon emissions, despite opposition in Congress.
Lisbon (AFP) March 24, 2009 - Opened in September as a world first in producing electricity from waves, a pioneering installation here is dead in the water having functioned for only a few weeks in a stormy process of research and development.
Saint-Quentin, France (AFP) March 24, 2009 - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday he was in favour of a carbon tax on imports from countries which had lower environmental standards than France.
Washington (AFP) March 24, 2009 - Researchers at a US Navy laboratory have unveiled what they say is significant evidence of cold fusion, a potential energy source that has many skeptics in the scientific community.
Jakarta (UPI) Mar 23, 2009 - Indonesia's massive geothermal energy potential has been boosted by a $400 million investment fund plan to help double the sector's energy capacity, the World Bank announced.
Buenos Aires (UPI) Mar 23, 2009 - First results from the drilling for hydrocarbons in the Falklands waters were at the center of market speculation Tuesday as Argentina took its claim over the islands to the Organization for American States.
Canberra, Australia (UPI) Mar 22, 2009 - Australia warned that $100 billion is needed to avoid brown-outs and power shortages in the country.
Oslo (AFP) March 22, 2009 - Can the key to clean energy be found down in the sewer? That's the idea in Oslo, where city officials soon plan to introduce buses that run on biofuels extracted from human waste.
Austin, Texas (AFP) March 21, 2009 - Electric grids are getting smarter in an IBM lab in Texas as the promise of billions of US economic stimulus dollars fuels a drive to make power delivery more efficient and greener.
Berlin (UPI) Mar 20, 2009 - In the wake of the worst energy crisis it battled in more than three decades, the European Union is trying to find ways to improve its energy security -- and new pipelines and LNG are the key words.
Istanbul, currently hosting the fifth World Water Forum, has one of the most spectacular settings in the world, bisected by the 19-mile-long Bosporus, which empties into the Sea of Marmara, which in turn debouches into the 38-mile-long Dardanelles.
New York NY (SPX) Mar 20, 2009 - No one can deny that green and clean agendas are rising to the surface in the mobile communications market. ABI Research forecasts that in 2009 over 800,000 base stations will utilize alternative energy solutions such as wind or solar energy, and that nearly 70 million mobile devices will be ethically disposed of or will be recycled in 2009.
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 20, 2009 - National Wind Solutions has announced that it has received a positive preliminary evaluation report related to the patent portfolio it has optioned for its Zero Emissions Fuel Cell subsidiary.
Lagos (AFP) March 20, 2009 - Nigeria, the world's second-biggest gas flarer after Russia, aims to halt this environmentally unfriendly practice by 2010, or 2011 at the latest, the country's oil minister said Friday.
Bourne MA (SPX) Mar 20, 2009 - Onset Computer has announced a line of new Wind Sensor Adapters for connecting the company's research-grade weather stations to RM Young's wind speed and direction sensors.
