Washington DC (UPI) Sep 29, 2020 - For the last few years, scientists at MIT have been working on a fusion research experiment called SPARC and, according to a series of papers - published Tuesday in the Journal of Plasma Physics - the research is going quite smoothly.
Stockholm (AFP) Sept 28, 2020 - A planned major expansion of Scandinavia's largest oil refinery, fiercely opposed by environmental activists, was scrapped Monday, Swedish oil company Preem said.
Paris (AFP) Sept 25, 2020 - One of the world's 'Big Four' accounting firms released a report this week concluding that extreme, business-as-usual climate change will benefit a third of the world's economies over the course of the 21st century.
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 23, 2020 - The US has granted Iraq a 60-day extension to a sanctions waiver allowing it to import Iranian gas for its crippled power grids, an Iraqi official told AFP on Wednesday.
Brussels (AFP) Sept 23, 2020 - NATO said on Wednesday there had been good progress in military talks between Greece and Turkey aimed at avoiding clashes in the eastern Mediterranean, the scene of a dispute over energy resources.
Paris (AFP) Sept 23, 2020 - Oil and gas giants are far from aligning with the global climate change goals they purport to uphold, and only a government-managed decline of the sector can prevent climate catastrophe, according to an analysis released Wednesday.
Brignoles, France (AFP) Sept 23, 2020 - In the town of Brignoles in southeast France, 40 tonnes of human hair are stacked in a warehouse - discarded locks sent in from salons far and wide under an innovative recycling scheme.
Beijing (AFP) Sept 23, 2020 - Xi Jinping's shock promise to lead the world into a safer climate future was thin on details, leaving many questions unanswered on how the world's worst polluter will meet a 2060 carbon neutral target.
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 23, 2020 - Producing biogas from the bacterial breakdown of biomass presents options for a greener energy future, but the complex composition of biomass comes with a long list of challenges. Cellulose an
Yeongi-gun, South Korea (SPX) Sep 23, 2020 - Korean researchers have developed an energy harvester that can generate electric power from ambient vibrations with diverse frequencies through a novel automatic resonance tuning mechanism. It was r
Paris (AFP) Sept 22, 2020 - French President Emmanuel Macron will hold telephone talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday for the first time since tensions flared over Turkey's behaviour in the eastern Mediterranean, the Elysee Palace said.
Sao Paulo (AFP) Sept 22, 2020 - As the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and Pantanal wetlands bruise Brazil's international image, bankers, business executives and even agribusiness firms are calling for a greener economy, adding to pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro.
Bergen, Norway (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 - Corvus Energy is pleased to announce that the company has been selected by Holland Ship Electric to supply lithium ion battery-based energy storage systems (ESS) for five new all-electric ferries be
Paris (AFP) Sept 21, 2020 - Airbus is aiming to put the world's first hydrogen-powered commercial plane into service by 2035, the European aircraft maker's boss said in remarks published Monday.
Paris (AFP) Sept 21, 2020 - The richest one percent of people are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the poorest half of the world's population - 3.1 billion people - new research showed Monday.
Munich, Germany (SPX) Sep 21, 2020 - For the fusion researchers at IPP, who want to develop a power plant based on the model of the sun, the turbulence formation in its fuel - a hydrogen plasma - is a central research topic. The small
