Beijing (AFP) April 29, 2021 - Around 400 tonnes of oil spilt into the Yellow Sea after a tanker collided with another ship off China's largest crude-receiving port earlier this week, maritime authorities said Thursday.
Karlsruhe, Germany (AFP) April 29, 2021 - Germany's highest court ruled Thursday that the government's flagship climate protection plan was insufficient, a major setback for Angela Merkel's right-left coalition in an election year when environmental issues are expected to take centre stage.
Oxford UK (SPX) Apr 28, 2021 - The now-familiar sight of traditional propeller wind turbines could be replaced in the future with wind farms containing more compact and efficient vertical turbines. New research from Oxford Brooke
Newark DE (SPX) Apr 28, 2021 - Millions of tons of plastic end up in landfills every year. It's a big societal problem and an even larger environmental threat. In the United States, less than 9% of plastic waste is recycled. Inst
York UK (SPX) Apr 28, 2021 - The discovery of a novel enzyme that releases a valuable chemical from agricultural waste could provide an important breakthrough in the upscaling of renewable fuels and chemicals, a new study shows
Urbana IL (SPX) Apr 28, 2021 - New studies from the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) shed more light on the economic and environmental costs of mandates in the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), a fed
Gochang, South Korea (AFP) April 28, 2021 - Resource-poor South Korea wants to spend billions on wind power to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, but its plans are being delayed by fishermen who say the fight against climate change threatens their catches.
Caracas (AFP) April 28, 2021 - Eight Venezuelan soldiers have been killed in clashes with armed groups operating on the Colombian border, doubling the toll since an offensive against the combatants started in March, the defense ministry in Caracas said Wednesday.
Saarbrucken, Germany (SPX) Apr 28, 2021 - With an output of around ten megawatts, today's wind turbines on the open sea have enormous dimensions. Their gigantic nacelles - with a generator, rotor and rotor blades spanning more than 100 mete
Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Apr 27, 2021 - The process designed to harvest on Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars can sometimes be tricked. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics labor
Beijing (AFP) April 27, 2021 - A collision between a crude oil tanker and another ship in the Yellow Sea on Tuesday has left an oil spill in waters off China's biggest crude-receiving terminal, vessel managers said.
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 27, 2021 - Iranian vessels harassed U.S. Coast Guard boats in the Arabian Gulf Monday for the second time this month, according to the Navy.
Paris (AFP) April 27, 2021 - Ambitious climate policies could reduce extreme poverty in developing countries if governments opted for robust taxes on emitters that were then fairly distributed to help the poor, new research showed Tuesday.
Paris (AFP) April 27, 2021 - Innovation in the clean energy sector has slowed, a report released Tuesday found, a worrying development as plans to meet carbon emissions reductions targets rely on yet-to-be-developed technologies.
New York (AFP) April 26, 2021 - ExxonMobil's strategy in the face of climate change poses an existential business risk to the company, according to an activist hedge fund that is a shareholder in the oil giant, a report in the Financial Times said Sunday.
Menlo Park CA (SPX) Apr 26, 2021 - Although many organisms capture and respond to sunlight, enzymes - proteins that catalyze biochemical reactions - are rarely driven by light. Scientists have identified only three types of natural p
