Berlin (AFP) May 5, 2022 - German industrial giant Siemens unveiled Thursday its first hydrogen-powered train developed with rail operator Deutsche Bahn, with a plan to put it into service regionally in 2024.
London (AFP) May 5, 2022 - British energy giant Shell on Thursday logged soaring first-quarter net profit as surging oil prices offset a sizeable charge linked to its Russia exit.
Berlin (AFP) May 5, 2022 - Germany's economy minister has urged environmental activists to avoid filing lawsuits against plans for new LNG terminals, warning that their zealousness to save porpoises could inadvertently strengthen the hand of Vladimir Putin.
London, UK (SPX) May 04, 2022 - A new approach to battery design could provide the key to low-cost, long-term energy storage, according to Imperial College London researchers. The team of engineers and chemists have created
Arbil, Iraq (AFP) May 1, 2022 - Six rockets landed Sunday in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, Kurdish counter-terrorism forces said, with minor damage reported at a key oil refinery, according to a separate security source.
Baghdad (AFP) April 30, 2022 - An end to years of tension between regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia is near, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi said in an interview published on Saturday.
Los Angeles (AFP) April 29, 2022 - California launched a sweeping investigation Thursday into plastic pollution by major oil companies, in a probe it says will look at whether fossil fuel giants have been lying about the problem for decades.
New York (AFP) April 29, 2022 - ExxonMobil and Chevron reported soaring profits Friday despite lower oil and natural gas volumes as the petroleum giants return billions of dollars to shareholders in the wake of lofty crude prices and refining margins.
Nottingham UK (The Conversation) Apr 28, 2022 - In the cult film The Matrix, unwitting humans' body heat was siphoned off by machines to use as their energy source. Although that might not be the ideal situation to find ourselves in, the basis of
Boston MA (SPX) Apr 28, 2022 - Reducing the use of fossil fuels will have unintended consequences for the power-generation industry and beyond. For example, many industrial chemical processes use fossil-fuel byproducts as precurs
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 28, 2022 - For hydrogen to be optimally used as a substitute for natural gas and kerosene, its behaviour during combustion must be better understood. Engineers at the German Aerospace Center have developed and
Boston MA (SPX) Apr 28, 2022 - MIT research scientists Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez and Nathan Howard have just completed one of the most demanding calculations in fusion science - predicting the temperature and density profiles of
Ottawa (AFP) April 26, 2022 - Canada's environmental watchdog on Tuesday slammed the government for bungling a transition to a low-carbon economy, accusing it of providing no support for energy workers facing job losses and overestimating the role of hydrogen fuel.
London, UK (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 - Imperial researchers have developed a hydrogen fuel cell that uses iron instead of rare and costly platinum, enabling greater use of the technology. Hydrogen fuel cells convert hydrogen to ele
Yeongi-gun, South Korea (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 - The importance of 'carbon neutrality' is growing more than ever, as climate change caused by global warming threatens even the human right to live. The Republic of Korea has declared 'carbon neutral
Boston MA (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 - On April 11, 2022, MIT announced five multiyear flagship projects in the first-ever Climate Grand Challenges, a new initiative to tackle complex climate problems and de
