New York (AFP) Jan 27, 2021 - Exxon Mobil plans to announce new steps to tackle climate change - including by adding members to its board - as it confronts rising investor scrutiny of its contribution to global emissions, US media reported on Wednesday.
United Nations, United States (AFP) Jan 27, 2021 - A UN mission to inspect a long-abandoned fuel tanker off the coast of Yemen, which threatens to rupture and cause a massive oil spill, has been pushed to March, the body said Wednesday.
Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 27, 2021 - The spat of land in question is located near SpaceX's Boca Chica launch site, which according to the company's CEO would be used exclusively for Starship super heavy-lift launch vehicles design for
Washington (AFP) Jan 27, 2021 - President Joe Biden will announce new bans on drilling on federal lands, as well as a US-hosted climate summit in April, as part of a raft of actions that take aim at rising global temperatures.
Washington DC (UPI) Jan 26, 2021 - Forces from the United States and the United Arab Emirates forces recently completed a weeklong training engagement in the UAE.
New York (AFP) Jan 26, 2021 - The head of the world's largest asset manager BlackRock on Tuesday called for companies to explain how they plan to reduce their net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Trondheim, Norway (SPX) Jan 25, 2021 - Growing perennial grasses on abandoned cropland has the potential to counteract some of the negative impacts of climate change by switching to more biofuels, according to a research group from the N
Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Jan 25, 2021 - The companies Vattenfall, Shell, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Hamburg's municipal heat supplier Hamburg Warme are planning to build one of the world's largest electrolysers in the Port of H
Aarhus, Denmark (SPX) Jan 25, 2021 - A grant of approx. DKK 21 million (EUR 2.8 million) from the EU framework programme for research and innovation, Horizon 2020 will help a research team from the Department of Biological and Chemical
Warwick UK (SPX) Jan 25, 2021 - Researchers in WMG at the University of Warwick, in collaboration with Imperial College London, have found a way to enhance hybrid flow batteries and their commercial use. The new approach can store
Stuttgart, Germany (SPX) Jan 22, 2021 - With its BALIS project, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is developing the world's first fuel cell powertrain for aircraft with an output in the megawatt
University Park PA (SPX) Jan 21, 2021 - Range anxiety, the fear of running out of power before being able to recharge an electric vehicle, may be a thing of the past, according to a team of Penn State engineers who are looking at lithium
Boston MA (SPX) Jan 21, 2021 - It takes a lot to make a wooden table. Grow a tree, cut it down, transport it, mill it ... you get the point. It's a decades-long process. Luis Fernando Velasquez-Garcia suggests a simpler solution:
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 20, 2021 - India has an energy problem. It currently relies heavily on coal and consumer demand is expected to double by 2040, making its green energy targets look out of reach. Part of the solution could come
Paris (AFP) Jan 20, 2021 - Rich countries have over-reported finance to help countries adapt to the impacts of climate change by $20 billion over the last decade, leaving at-risk communities drastically underfunded, a new analysis showed Thursday.
Andalusia, Spain (SPX) Jan 20, 2021 - Every year around 734 million tons of wheat straw are produced worldwide, a large amount of waste, which is cheap and has had no well-defined use until now. Recently, the RNM-271 Chemical Engineerin
