Raleigh NC (SPX) Dec 15, 2020 - Many people think of composting organic matter as a way of keeping solid waste out of landfills, but a new study from North Carolina State University finds there can be significant environmental ben
Princeton NJ (SPX) Dec 15, 2020 - A hyper-sensitive instrument, deep underground in Italy, has finally succeeded at the nearly impossible task of detecting CNO neutrinos (tiny particles pointing to the presence of carbon, nitrogen a
Oslo (AFP) Dec 15, 2020 - Norway gave approval Tuesday to a giant project to capture and store CO2 below the North Sea, a technology that could help efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 15, 2020 - It's been five years since Safer, a Red Sea oil tanker with a regrettable name, was decommissioned and abandoned, but calls to empty the tanker have failed to spur action.
Boston MA (SPX) Dec 14, 2020 - More than two-thirds of the energy used worldwide is ultimately ejected as waste heat. Within that reservoir of discarded energy lies a great and largely untapped opportunity, claim scientists in
London, UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2020 - Researchers have used AI to control beams for the next generation of smaller, cheaper accelerators for research, medical and industrial applications. Experiments led by Imperial College London
New York (AFP) Dec 14, 2020 - ExxonMobil announced Monday it will reduce its emissions over the next five years bowing to growing public pressure from activists, including the Church of England, to make changes.
Trondheim, Norway (SPX) Dec 14, 2020 - Norway;s Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Tina Bru, has announced an investment of 120 million NOK (11.3 million EUR) in a new wind power research centre in Norway. The NorthWind research centre wi
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Dec 11, 2020 - One of the largest obstacles in using renewable energy efficiently is the possibility to store energy on a large scale. SaltX Technology AB has partnered with Sumitomo SHI FW (SFW) to solve this in
Brussels (AFP) Dec 11, 2020 - EU leaders resolved a bitter dispute with Poland and Hungary to salvage the bloc's landmark coronavirus recovery plan, but argued overnight and into Friday on fighting climate change.
Paris (AFP) Dec 11, 2020 - Carbon emissions fell a record seven percent in 2020 as countries imposed lockdowns and restrictions on movement during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Global Carbon Project said Friday in its annual assessment.
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 10, 2020 - Two U.S. B-52H Stratofortresses flew a show-of-force mission in the Persian Gulf intended to deter attacks from Iran Thursday, the Pentagon said.
Puerto Francisco De Orellana, Ecuador (AFP) Dec 10, 2020 - Indigenous Waorani from Ecuador's Amazon filed a lawsuit Thursday against state-owned Chinese oil company PetroOriental, accusing it of contaminating their ancestral lands by burning off natural gas from oil wells in a process known as flaring.
Sippola, Finland (AFP) Dec 10, 2020 - On a barren expanse of bog in southeast Finland the size of 180 football pitches, Taisto Raussi's yellow harvester hoovers up a thin layer of rich peat and deposits it in a heap, to be sold as fuel.
Paris (AFP) Dec 9, 2020 - In the battle against climate change, green hydrogen is being hailed as a potential miracle fuel that could help the world's worst-polluting industries slash carbon emissions.
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 - A plan to use sustainable sources for up to 50 percent of military aviation fuel was announced by British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace this week.
