Washington DC (UPI) Mar 8, 2021 - Five ships of U.S. Naval Forces Command joined forces of Oman, France and the United Kingdom for a mine countermeasures exercise, the U.S. Navy said.
Reno NV (SPX) Mar 08, 2021 - Could cactus pear become a major crop like soybeans and corn in the near future, and help provide a biofuel source, as well as a sustainable food and forage crop? According to a recently published s
Riyadh (AFP) March 7, 2021 - A drone attacked a Saudi oil port and a ballistic missile targeted facilities of energy giant Aramco in the country's east on Sunday, the energy ministry said.
Moscow (AFP) March 7, 2021 - Inspectors will check an underwater pipeline for pollution after it caught fire on a frozen river in Russia's Siberia, federal monitoring service Rostekhnadzor said Sunday.
Istanbul (AFP) March 6, 2021 - Turkey's Defence Minister Hulusi Akar and top military officials Saturday joined naval drills on an exploration vessel at the heart of a dispute with Greece over contested natural gas reserves.
Manchester UK (The Conversation) Mar 05, 2021 - Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the Sun and all other stars. During fusion, the nuclei of two atoms are brought close enough together that they fuse together, releasing huge amounts of ene
Paris (ESA) Mar 05, 2021 - For the first time, scientists, using satellite data from the Copernicus Sentinel missions, are now able to detect individual methane plumes leaking from natural gas pipelines around the globe.
Zurich (AFP) March 5, 2021 - Switzerland votes Sunday on a free trade deal with Indonesia but the agreement, which opens up a vast potential market, could slip up over the issue of palm oil imports.
London (AFP) March 5, 2021 - Britain, host of this year's COP26 climate summit, drew harsh criticism from experts after its annual budget put energy transition on the back burner while a new coal mine was greenlit.
Houston (AFP) March 4, 2021 - The polar vortex storm that plunged Texas into chaos continues to reverberate through the state's power grid operator, which fired its CEO on the same day Congress launched an investigation into its failures.
Mexico City (AFP) March 3, 2021 - Mexican lawmakers have approved controversial electricity reforms which environmental campaigners see as a major setback to efforts to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 3, 2021 - Across the globe, many of the world's biggest economies are slowly reducing their carbon footprints. Unfortunately, many developing economies are emitting more carbon today than they were five years ago.
Jerusalem (AFP) March 3, 2021 - Israel on Wednesday accused Iran of environmental terrorism after a devastating oil spill off its Mediterranean coast it said was perpetrated by a Libyan-flagged ship that set sail from Iran.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 03, 2021 - For several years now, the biofuels that power cars, jet airplanes, ships and big trucks have come primarily from corn and other mass-produced farm crops. Researchers at USC, though, have looked to
New York (AFP) March 3, 2021 - ExxonMobil outlined a plan for a lower-carbon future based on significant carbon capture and storage (CCS), but also continued fossil fuel use, in a plan that drew faint praise from activist investors Wednesday.
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 3, 2021 - Scientists in Britain have developed a new energy-harvesting device that will make it possible for wearable devices to be made entirely of recycled waste materials and powered by human movement.
