Sydney (AFP) Jan 11, 2021 - Australian police on Monday charged a man in connection with allegations a Sydney-based firm paid US$78 million in bribes to secure lucrative Iraqi oil contracts.
Columbus OH (SPX) Jan 11, 2021 - Scientists have figured out a cheaper, more efficient way to conduct a chemical reaction at the heart of many biological processes, which may lead to better ways to create biofuels from plants.
Urbana IL (SPX) Jan 11, 2021 - Large perennial grasses like miscanthus are a primary target for use as bioenergy crops because of their sustainability advantages, but they take several years to establish and aren't ideal for crop
Boston MA (SPX) Jan 11, 2021 - Anyone who has ever hesitated in front of a trash bin knows the problem: It's hard to determine what can be recycled. Consider the average potato chip bag. It's got film plastic, metal, dyes, and fo
Varel, Germany (SPX) Jan 11, 2021 - With the introduction of a solution to allow the standalone use of wind lidar ZX 300 in complex terrain, Deutsche WindGuard has made a successful start to 2021. The new ZX Complex Flow Solver (ZX
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 11, 2021 - Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University mixed and designed a new, high entropy alloy (HEA) superconductor, using extensive data on simple superconducting substances with a specific crystal st
Riyadh (AFP) Jan 10, 2021 - Saudi Arabia, the world's top crude exporter, announced Sunday the launch of an eco-city with zero cars, zero streets and zero carbon emissions at its futuristic NEOM mega development.
San Cristobal, Venezuela (AFP) Jan 8, 2021 - In crisis-hit Venezuela, even soldiers are struggling to make ends meet on meager salaries rendered practically worthless by the highest inflation in the world and have taken to moonlighting - as taxi drivers.
New York (AFP) Jan 7, 2021 - US President Donald Trump's administration auctioned off 11 oil leases in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge on Wednesday, in a last-ditch move to expand drilling in the areas coveted by some petroleum producers before he leaves office.
Beijing (AFP) Jan 6, 2021 - China's delayed carbon trading system will start operating in February, the environment ministry has said, as the world's biggest polluter takes steps towards decarbonising its economy by 2060.
Stanford CA (SPX) Jan 05, 2021 - Polarons are fleeting distortions in a material's atomic lattice that form around a moving electron in a few trillionths of a second, then quickly disappear. As ephemeral as they are, they affect a
Munich, Germany (SPX) Jan 05, 2021 - A team working with Roland Fischer, Professor of Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry at the Technical University Munich (TUM) has developed a highly efficient supercapacitor. The basis of the ener
Paris (AFP) Jan 5, 2021 - More than half the world's nations failed to submit upgraded commitments by year's end to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, straggling behind the schedule of accelerated climate ambitions set out in the Paris Agreement.
Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 05, 2021 - USA: Europe's largest gas field, the Groningen field in the Netherlands, is widely known for induced subsidence and seismicity caused by gas pressure depletion and associated compaction of the sands
Tehran (AFP) Jan 5, 2021 - Iran said Tuesday it had stepped up its uranium enrichment at a time of heightened tensions with the United States and after it seized a South Korean tanker in strategic Gulf waters.
Washington (AFP) Jan 4, 2021 - The US reversed a decision to bring an aircraft carrier home from the Gulf Sunday, with the Pentagon saying that due to recent threats by Iran the USS Nimitz would stay in position.
