Leeds, UK (SPX) Feb 25, 2009 - Globally, tropical trees in undisturbed forest are absorbing nearly a fifth of the CO2 released by burning fossil fuels.
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 25, 2009 - Researchers say a newly tested method for producing super dense, defect-free, thin polymer films is the fastest, most efficient method ever achieved and it may dramatically improve microelectronic storage capabilities such as those in computer memory sticks.
London, UK (SPX) Feb 25, 2009 - Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) have found evidence that magnetism is involved in the mechanism behind high temperature superconductivity.
Korsakov, Russia (AFP) Feb 25, 2009 - Standing on the icy shoreline, Dmitry Lisitsyn recalled the day when over 100 dying birds washed up on this beach, coated in a thick layer of oil and helplessly flapping their wings.
Abuja, Nigeria (UPI) Feb 25, 2009 - The mysterious return of ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua after three months of seclusion in a Saudi Arabian hospital is likely to intensify a deepening power struggle among the country's political barons that augers ill for the crisis-plagued oil industry.
Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Feb 25, 2009 - Venezuela's ordinary citizens are dogged by official intolerance of political dissent and worries over personal security because of intimidatory actions carried out on behalf of the government agencies, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said.
Cincinnati OH (SPX) Feb 24, 2009 - AdvanceBio Systems has acquired exclusive intellectual property (IP) rights to provide pre-treatment equipment and systems on a turnkey basis to the next-generation cellulosic ethanol and renewable chemicals industries.
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 24, 2009 - Amnon Samid, an energy expert, Director General of AGS Technologies, founder and chairman of several companies worldwide, has working experience with utilities, government agencies, investment companies and start-ups.
San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 24, 2009 - At the 14th annual National Ethanol Conference, Danish biotech pioneer Inbicon announced a series of technical and marketing initiatives for bringing commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol to North America.
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Feb 24, 2009 - International Institute for Ecological Agriculture (IIEA) has announced that its members have launched a campaign to communicate public outrage and opposition to the Valero bid to acquire the assets of bankrupted independent Ethanol producer VeraSun.
Lake Mary FL (SPX) Feb 24, 2009 - Renewable fuels provider New Generation Biofuels Holdings has announced that it is supplying Delta Chemical Corporation of Baltimore, Maryland, with its renewable biofuel in an evaluation program at Delta Chemical's Baltimore facility.
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Feb 24, 2009 - A Purdue University researcher has found a way to get more bang for fewer bucks when it comes to processing cellulosic material to make ethanol.
Beijing (UPI) Feb 23, 2009 - China's poisonous jatropha shrub is showing promise as biofuel and could boost the country's efforts to reduce dependency on imported crude oil.
Washington (AFP) Feb 23, 2009 - NASA readied the launch early Tuesday of a satellite that will produce the first complete map of the Earth's human and natural sources of carbon dioxide, CO2, the gas most closely linked to climate change.
Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Feb 23, 2009 - Venezuela's worsening electricity power supplies pose a risk to crude oil prices amid fears the government of President Hugo Chavez may face difficulty sustaining oil production and exports at current levels.
Beijing (UPI) Feb 22, 2009 - Amid steep competition and lower profit margins, some industry insiders say China's wind turbine sector grew at the expense of quality.
