Washington DC (UPI) Aug 31, 2021 - Fossil fuel subsidies nearly doubled globally in 2021 to $697.2 billion, according to the International Energy Agency and Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 31, 2021 - Japan and the United States agreed to press China to further reduce carbon emissions, the Japanese foreign minister said Tuesday after high-level talks in Tokyo.
Nicosia (AFP) Aug 30, 2021 - Cypriot authorities said Monday they were monitoring an oil spill from a power plant on Syria's Mediterranean coast, as a Syrian official said Damascus was probing its cause.
Nairobi (AFP) Aug 30, 2021 - The use of leaded petrol has been eradicated from the globe, a milestone that will prevent more than 1.2 million premature deaths and save world economies over $2.4 trillion annually, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said Monday.
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 28, 2021 - Italian energy company Eni said Monday it started production off the Ivory Coast in the Baleine oil and gas field, an accomplishment made less than two years after the initial discovery.
Ulsan, South Korea (SPX) Aug 27, 2021 - A joint research team, affiliated with UNIST has announced that they have successfully developed a thermoelectric technology to produce power-generating tubes using 3D printing techniques. Res
Tehran (AFP) Aug 27, 2021 - Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian left for Iraq Friday to participate in a regional summit, the ministry said.
Morgantown WV (SPX) Aug 27, 2021 - This fall, West Virginia University researchers will drill three miles into the ground to test the potential of geothermal energy. If successful, it might eventually help to reduce the carbon footpr
Stanford CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2021 - An international team of researchers led by Stanford University have developed rechargeable batteries that can store up to six times more charge than ones that are currently commercially available.
Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Aug 25, 2021 - When its batteries are fully charged, an electronic device will normally indicate that they are at 100% capacity. However, this value only represents 70-90% of the theoretical energy density that ca
Karlsruhe, Germany (SPX) Aug 25, 2021 - Using energy from solar modules and wind turbines, water can be split by electrolysis into its constituents hydrogen and oxygen without producing any dangerous emissions. As the availability of ener
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 25, 2021 - On Earth, plants and ocean microbes use sunlight to turn carbon dioxide, or CO2, into sugars for energy. Humans don't have that ability, at least not yet. On Mars, there aren't plants and ocea
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 25, 2021 - Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin are pushing an innovative combination of in-situ combustion and carbon dioxide storage to turn untapped oil into clean hydrogen energy. Researcher
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 25, 2021 - Biomass is attracting growing interest from researchers as a source of renewable, sustainable, and clean energy. It can be converted into bio-oil by thermochemical methods, such as gasification, liq
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 25, 2021 - As China's economic development continues, energy demand is rising along with it. Meeting this energy demand via fossil fuels is becoming increasingly undesirable, because it poses environmental and
Chemnitz, Germany (SPX) Aug 24, 2021 - The miniaturization of microelectronic sensor technology, microelectronic robots or intravascular implants is progressing rapidly. However, it also poses major challenges for research. One of the bi
