Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Mar 12, 2009 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has put himself at the mercy of God and nature to bring timely rainfall to replenish the country's depleted water reservoirs and defuse a worsening crisis over electricity and water shortages.
Brussels (UPI) Mar 12, 2009 - The European Union will exceed its target of getting 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources in 2020, the European Commission said.
Washington (UPI) Mar 12, 2009 - U.S. Renewable Energy Group, China-based A-Power Energy Generation Systems and American Nevada Group announced plans to build a wind turbine manufacturing facility in Nevada.
Kut, Iraq (AFP) March 12, 2009 - Chinese engineers have inaugurated an Iraqi oil field, the first major oil development deal secured by a foreign firm since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein, officials said on Thursday.
Baghdad (UPI) Mar 12, 2009 - Iraq is embarking on an unprecedented expansion of its oil industry that aims to turn it into one of the world's top three producers in a few years.
Coral Gables, Fla. (UPI) Mar 12, 2009 - U.S. and Japanese physicists say they have demonstrated proof of principle of the existence of a 'spin battery' that's about the diameter of a human hair.
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 11, 2009 - Top officials at the Department of Energy knowingly used inaccurate numbers to estimate the cost of a clean coal program and then used the misleading figures as an excuse to ax the project last year, according to a congressional report released Wednesday.
Washington (UPI) Mar 11, 2009 - The seismic cracks produced in the Western economic structures amid the greatest recession since the Great Depression are reverberating far beyond the major financial centers of Wall Street and the City of London as nations consider how to protect their economies from further contraction. New ideas and concepts are receiving a far more sympathetic hearing as countries scramble to halt their economies' decline.
Miami (UPI) Mar 11, 2009 - With oil prices dropping dramatically over the last six months, Venezuela said it would cut costs at its state-run energy company, Petroleos de Venezuela SA, by 40 percent.
Buenos Aires (UPI) Mar 11, 2009 - Yet another political row is brewing in Buenos Aires over gasoline shortages that the government contends shouldn't be occurring and are directly the result of Royal Dutch Shell and Brazil's Petrobras manipulating the market.
Paris (AFP) March 11, 2009 - Think of an electric car that can accelerate swiftly to cruising speed, laptop computers that can recharge in a couple of minutes rather than hours and a generation of super-miniature mobile phones.
Stockholm (AFP) March 11, 2009 - Sweden's government on Wednesday presented what it described as Europe's most ambitious strategy to improve energy efficiency and cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Washington (AFP) March 11, 2009 - The United States should not impose a cap-and-trade system to battle climate change this year because it amounts to a painful tax during a deep recession, senators argued Wednesday.
Berlin (UPI) Mar 11, 2009 - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych Thursday formed a new coalition in a country that observers say can become an important security link between Europe and Russia.
Nairobi, Kenya (UPI) Mar 10, 2009 - East Africa is emerging as the next oil boom following a big strike in Uganda's Lake Albert Basin. Other oil and natural gas reserves have been found in Tanzania and Mozambique and exploration is under way in Ethiopia and even war-torn Somalia.
Paris (AFP) March 10, 2009 - Imagine a leafy Central Park filled with strolling Parisians where a rundown housing estate now stands, Paris boulevards turned into greenbelts, or a super-fast elevated train for commuters.
