Paris (AFP) Nov 17, 2020 - Energy firms are undertaking financially risky natural gas extraction projects from the Arctic to Africa made feasible by government-backed loans and guarantees, jeopardising efforts to curb global warming, experts say.
Sotkamo, Finland (AFP) Nov 16, 2020 - Lines of trucks carrying piles of rock crisscross Finland's rugged Terrafame mine, which sits 300km (186 miles) below the Arctic Circle and is Europe's largest source of nickel for electric car batteries.
New York (AFP) Nov 16, 2020 - The United States on Monday invited oil companies to choose arctic drilling prospects as President Donald Trump races to enact a controversial Alaska leasing plan in his final days in office.
Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Nov 13, 2020 - The imminent environmental crisis calls for an urgent transition to a green economy. A team of scientists at Nagoya University, Japan, led by Professor Susumu Saito, has recently found an interestin
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Nov 13, 2020 - A new hydrocarbon study contradicts conventional wisdom about how methane is trapped in rock, revealing a new strategy to more easily access the valuable energy resource. The most challenging
Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Nov 13, 2020 - When you cool down liquid water, it crystallizes into ice. Consider a bucket filled with water, for example. When the water is liquid, the water molecules can be anywhere inside the bucket. In
Valencia, Spain (SPX) Nov 12, 2020 - A team of researchers from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia and the Spanish National Research Council has discovered a new method that makes it possible to transform electricity into hydrogen
Boston MA (SPX) Nov 12, 2020 - Camels have evolved a seemingly counterintuitive approach to keeping cool while conserving water in a scorching desert environment: They have a thick coat of insulating fur. Applying essentially the
Groningen, Netherlands (SPX) Nov 12, 2020 - Thermoelectric materials can turn a temperature difference into electricity. Organic thermoelectric materials could be used to power wearable electronics or sensors; however, the power output is sti
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 - Lithium-ion batteries are the major rechargeable power source for many portable devices as well as electric vehicles, but their use is limited, because they do not provide high power output while si
Berkeley CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 - Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have achieved unprecedented success in modifying a microbe to efficiently produce a compound of interest using a computational m
London (AFP) Nov 11, 2020 - British bank Barclays has increased its financing of fossil fuel firms this year, despite vowing to tackle climate change, data from NGO network Fund our Future showed Wednesday.
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 - Framatome, an EDF Group company, recently signed a contract with moBiel GmbH to build a hydrogen refueling station for a pilot hydrogen-powered bus fleet in Bielefeld, Germany. Framatome's Cov
Aberdeen, United Kingdom (AFP) Nov 10, 2020 - The Scottish city of Aberdeen enjoyed a boom after the discovery of oil in the North Sea in the 1960s, propelling it to a central role in the industry.
Paris (AFP) Nov 10, 2020 - Rich nations are still providing more than half a trillion dollars annually to fossil fuel projects despite committing to slash greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris climate deal, research showed Tuesday.
Hefei, China (SPX) Nov 10, 2020 - Modern life relies closely on plastics, even though the petroleum-based production creates serious environmental challenges. The industry opts out to use sustainable materials due to their limited m
