Beijing (AFP) Nov 25, 2021 - China's CO2 emissions fell in the third quarter for the first time since the country reopened from Covid-19 lockdowns, research published Thursday showed, in what experts said could mark a carbon turning point for the country.
Bucharest (AFP) Nov 24, 2021 - Seven suspects have been questioned over the theft of diesel fuel worth $2 million from a US military base on the Black Sea in southeastern Romania, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Berkeley CA (SPX) Nov 24, 2021 - If the petrochemical industry is ever to wean itself off oil and gas, it has to find sustainably-sourced chemicals that slip effortlessly into existing processes for making products such as fuels, l
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Nov 24, 2021 - A team of researchers from the U.S. National Science Foundation Center for Sustainable Polymers based at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have developed a chemical technology of combined ferm
Washington (AFP) Nov 24, 2021 - President Joe Biden tapped the US strategic oil reserves in a bid to reassure Americans angry about inflation and goods shortages as they head off to Thanksgiving - and to buoy up his sinking poll ratings.
Berkeley CA (SPX) Nov 24, 2021 - Trains have been on the sidelines of electrification efforts for a long time in the U.S. because they account for only 2% of transportation sector emissions, but diesel freight trains emit 35 millio
Buffalo NY (SPX) Nov 23, 2021 - It sounds like modern-day alchemy: Transforming sugar into hydrocarbons found in gasoline. But that's exactly what scientists have done. In a forthcoming study in Nature Chemistry, researchers repor
Boston MA (SPX) Nov 23, 2021 - Lithium-ion batteries, those marvels of lightweight power that have made possible today's age of handheld electronics and electric vehicles, have plunged in cost since their introduction three decad
Sydney (AFP) Nov 23, 2021 - Australian environmental groups on Tuesday vowed to scupper plans for a vast new gas project off the country's pristine northwest coast, saying it would critically undercut international climate efforts.
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 22, 2021 - Sugar can be transformed into hydrocarbons found in gasoline by feeding glucose to strains of E. coli that don't harm human health, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Chemistry.
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 22, 2021 - The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is working with ENERCON to set up the Krummendeich Research Wind Farm. The company is the largest German manufacturer of
Berkeley CA (SPX) Nov 19, 2021 - Could a tank of ice or hot water be a battery? Yes! If a battery is a device for storing energy, then storing hot or cold water to power a building's heating or air-conditioning system is a differen
London (AFP) Nov 18, 2021 - Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) has set a world first by completing the first flight using only synthetic fuel, the Ministry of Defence said.
Guangzhou, China (SPX) Nov 18, 2021 - To produce a cost-effective redox flow battery, researchers based at the South China University of Technology have synthesized a molecular compound that serves as a low-cost electrolyte, enabling a
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Nov 18, 2021 - As important as emissions of the greenhouse gas methane are in the climate conversation, recently factoring prominently in the recent COP26 conference in Glasgow, researchers have painfully little l
Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Nov 18, 2021 - Recycling carbon dioxide (CO2), especially through conversion to methane (CH4), is compelling while anthropogenic CO2 emissions are still rising. A useful process for this transformation is photothe
