Wroclaw, Poland (AFP) Jan 28, 2009 - The European Union must support Ukraine's drive for integration with the bloc despite a recent gas crisis, the prime minister of current EU president the Czech Republic said Wednesday.
Paris (AFP) Jan 28, 2009 - Massive, futuristic schemes to spur land and sea into sucking up greenhouse gases may help the fight against global warming but are no substitute for reducing the pollution itself, scientists said Wednesday.
Norwich, UK (SPX) Jan 28, 2009 - The first comprehensive assessment of the climate cooling potential of different geoengineering schemes has been carried out by researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA).
Berkeley, Calif. (UPI) Jan 28, 2009 - U.S. scientists say they have developed a microbe that can produce an advanced biofuel directly from biomass.
Lagos, Nigeria (UPI) Jan 28, 2009 - West Africa's oil boom has brought immense wealth and political upheaval to the region, and a new peril -- pirates and criminal gangs who prey on the black gold that could transform a long-ignored part of the world.
Princeton, N.J. (UPI) Jan 28, 2009 - U.S. scientists say they have developed power-generating rubber film that can harness body movements to power devices such as pacemakers and cellphones.
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 28, 2009 - For the first time ever, non-hydroelectric renewable energy, led by wind power, was the leading source of new electric generating capacity in the United States, according to a newly-released report Electric Power Annual 2007 from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Jan 28, 2009 - Seven teams, all with connections to the University of Michigan, have advanced to semi-final round in the Clean Energy Prize competition.
Chestnut Hill MA (SPX) Jan 28, 2009 - For nearly a century, scientists have been trying to unravel the many mysteries of superconductivity, where materials conduct electricity with zero resistance.
Chicago (UPI) Jan 28, 2009 - A wind farm built in Oklahoma by Spanish company ACCIONA is a major breakthrough in widening the use of clean and renewable energy in the United States.
President Barack Obama's inaugural address call to "harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories" signals a welcome commitment to renewable energy.
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Jan 27, 2009 - The Southern California Public Power Authority says it plans to create the nation's first cost-effective, utility-scale, distributed energy storage project.
Beijing (AFP) Jan 27, 2009 - China's imports of oil products more than doubled last year as the nation's own producers were forced to scale down their activity, state media reported Tuesday.
New York NY (SPX) Jan 27, 2009 - GreenShift has announced that its NextDiesel branded corn oil derived biodiesel has superior cold flow properties compared to biodiesel produced from soybean oil, a conventional biodiesel feedstock. GreenShift's patent-pending corn oil extraction technology (COES) extracts inedible crude corn oil from distillers grain, a co-product of ethanol production, for conversion into biodiesel.
Berlin (UPI) Jan 27, 2009 - Beijing is trying to prevent the German wind industry from entering the booming Chinese market, industry representatives said Wednesday in Berlin.
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 27, 2009 - A newly published study shows that effective land management practices can reduce the so called carbon debt attributed to biofuels to near zero. Greenhouse gas emissions associated with growing agricultural feedstocks for biofuels can be greatly reduced using available crop management techniques, such as no-till agriculture, according to the new study in the journal Environmental Science and Technology by Bruce Dale and Seungdo Kim of Michigan State University and Hyungtae Kim of Phillips Academy Andover.
