Champaign IL (SPX) Dec 12, 2008 - Converting forests or fields to biofuel crops can increase or decrease greenhouse gas emissions, depending on where - and which - biofuel crops are used, University of Illinois researchers report this month.
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Dec 12, 2008 - Sweden is a world leader in bioenergy and renewable vehicle fuels, and is the fastest growing windpower market in Europe. There are excellent investment opportunities for Indian investors, as Sweden can offer innovative and sustainable cleantech solutions for the future.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2008 - VIASPACE has announced that it has planted 1.2 million seedlings of its proprietary fast-growing China Giant King Grass near the IPA factory in Guangdong province in China. Giant King Grass is a natural hybrid perennial grass which is propagated from seedlings rather than seeds.
Poznan, Poland (UPI) Dec 11, 2008 - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at a U.N. climate conference Thursday called for a green New Deal to save the economy and stop global warming. With Barack Obama, he may get a new partner to make that proposal reality.
Washington (UPI) Dec 11, 2008 - At this festive time of year, Westerners should spare a modicum of cheer for Russian energy producers, battered by plunging global demand and a tax rate that recently stripped them of any profit. The global plunge in oil prices occurred more swiftly than the Kremlin anticipated, having on Oct. 1 slapped a duty of $372.20 a ton on oil exports, to last until Dec. 1. Russian energy companies wound up paying the government $69.40 for each barrel of exported oil at a time when world prices slumped to $66.65 a barrel and lower.
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 11, 2008 - The president-elect and Congress will pour money into creating new technologies -- and jobs -- when they take office next month, instead of scaling back foresight spending as the economy stumbles.
Los Angeles (AFP) Dec 11, 2008 - California's environmental regulators approved an ambitious plan aimed at slashing greenhouse gas emissions in the state by 30 percent over the next 12 years, officials said.
Berlin (AFP) Dec 11, 2008 - Two North Sea German islands Thursday lost a court bid to prevent the building of giant wind turbines off their coastlines.
Poznan, Poland (AFP) Dec 11, 2008 - Mexico said Thursday it would slash its carbon pollution by 50 percent before 2050, joining Brazil among large developing economies to pledge large reductions in greenhouse gases.
Washington (UPI) Dec 10, 2008 - The global economic slowdown has focused national economies inward, but one of the more intriguing stories of 2009 will be the economic changes in the so-called BRIC countries -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- especially their growing bilateral relations.
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 10, 2008 - Residents of the oil- and gas-rich Niger Delta are preparing for a long legal battle with petroleum companies over the practice of gas flaring, considered by regional advocates to be environmentally damaging.
Daejeon, South Korea (AFP) Dec 10, 2008 - A court Wednesday jailed the Indian captain and chief officer of a Hong Kong supertanker after ruling they were partly to blame for South Korea's worst oil spill.
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 10, 2008 - Japan has found a way to harness clean energy from thousands of stamping feet that pass through one of its busiest train stations every day.
Miami (UPI) Dec 9, 2008 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said his country's oil-based economy could be in trouble as world oil demand decreases and a global financial crisis looms.
Beijing (AFP) Dec 9, 2008 - China has dismissed a Japanese protest over two Chinese ships that entered what Tokyo considers its waters, with Beijing reiterating its own territorial claims to the area, state media reported.
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Dec 09, 2008 - Three houses under construction in East Tennessee carry the story of The Three Little Pigs to an entirely new level and will become a model for the nation when it comes to determining energy efficiency.
