Washington DC (UPI) Jun 23, 2020 - The USS Nitze sailed into contested waters off the coast of Venezuela Tuesday in what the Navy describes as a freedom of navigation operation contesting an excessive maritime claim by Venezuela.
College Station TX (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 - Porous rock containing oil and natural gas are buried so deep inside the earth that shale operators rely on complex models of the underground environment to estimate fossil fuel recovery. These simu
Paris (AFP) June 23, 2020 - US-based oil and gas majors are lagging well behind their European counterparts when it comes to plans for cutting emissions to comply with the Paris climate deal, according to analysis released Wednesday.
Baghdad (AFP) June 22, 2020 - Iraq's economy could reach irreversible lows within the next year unless urgent reform measures are adopted, its finance minister warned in an exclusive interview with AFP on Monday.
Copenhagen (AFP) June 22, 2020 - Denmark announced Monday that the country's political parties had agreed on a climate deal paving the way for an increased carbon tax aimed at drastically reducing emissions, though environmental groups found the deal lacking in substance.
Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Jun 21, 2020 - A research group at Nagoya University has developed a new technology that can drastically conserve the energy used to capture carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the greenhouse gases, from facilities such
Birmingham UK (SPX) Jun 21, 2020 - A 'smart' system that controls the storage and release of energy from wind turbines will reduce the risk of power cuts and support the increase of wind energy use world-wide, say researchers at the
Stanford CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2020 - Wind farms are large, highly technical projects but their development often relies on personal decisions made by individual landowners and small communities. Recognizing the power of the human eleme
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 19, 2020 - Economies and consumers can't aspire to both affluence and sustainability, researchers warn in a new paper, published Friday in the journal Nature Communications.
St. Louis MO (SPX) Jun 19, 2020 - Electrification of the transportation sector - one of the largest consumers of energy in the world - is critical to future energy and environmental resilience. Electrification of this sector will re
Providence RI (SPX) Jun 19, 2020 - A team of Brown University researchers has found a way to double the toughness of a ceramic material used to make solid-state lithium ion batteries. The strategy, described in the journal Matter, co
Athens (AFP) June 19, 2020 - The EU must not look weak in enforcing a UN arms embargo on Libya, the Greek government said Friday after recent naval incidents involving Turkey.
Beijing (SPX) Jun 19, 2020 - Catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide (CO2) is a green and sustainable means of synthesizing commodity chemicals such as methanol. This conversion process is key to realizing the methanol econo
Ankara (AFP) June 18, 2020 - Turkey on Thursday dismissed as groundless allegations by France that Turkish frigates had been extremely aggressive towards a French navy vessel participating in a NATO mission in the Mediterranean.
Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jun 18, 2020 - All efforts to replicate in tokamak fusion facilities the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars must cope with a constant problem - transient heat bursts that can halt fusion reactions and dam
Abidjan (AFP) June 17, 2020 - The stakes are big, and so are the egos.
