Bio Fuel
Microsoft, Alaska Airlines team up for alternative jet fuel
Microsoft and Alaska Airlines announced a partnership Thursday to use sustainable jet fuel to offset emissions from the technology giant's employee travel.
Oil and Gas
Tilting oil tanker threatens ‘environmental catastrophe’
Venezuela's opposition warned of a potential "environmental catastrophe" Thursday as a damaged oil tanker threatened to spill 1.3 million barrels of crude into waters separating Venezuela from Trinidad and Tobago.
Oil and Gas
NATO chief urges Athens and Ankara to talk
NATO chief Jen Stoltenberg said Thursday a military hotline set up by the alliance could help prevent clashes in the eastern Mediterranean, but urged Greece and Turkey to engage on a political level.
Bio Fuel
The highest heat-resistant plastic ever is developed from biomass
The use of biomass-derived plastics is one of the prime concerns to establish a sustainable society, which is incorporated as one of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Bio Fuel
National laboratories point to sugars as a key factor in ideal feedstock for biofuels
Popular wisdom holds that tall, fast-growing trees are best for biomass, but new research by two U.S.
Bio Fuel
A new material for separating CO2 from industrial waste gases, natural gas, or biogas
Chemists at the University of Bayreuth have developed a material that could well make an important contribution to climate protection and sustainable industrial production.
Oil and Gas
As oil prices dive, Iraqi Kurds seek to diversify economy
Iraq's Kurdish region has for decades lived off its oil wealth, but plummeting energy prices amid the pandemic and financial mismanagement are forcing locals to return to long abandoned farms.
Energy News
Greenpeace knocks ECB for carbon-heavy ‘bias’
Greenpeace on Tuesday criticised the European Central Bank for "bias" in its bond purchases that favour "carbon-intensive sectors" when the institution is looking for ways to address climate change.
Energy News
A renewable solution to keep cool in a warming world
Month-on-month, year-on-year, the world continues to experience record high temperatures.
Oil and Gas
Total oil project hurts ‘tens of thousands’ in rural Uganda: watchdog NGOs
Tens of thousands of Ugandan farmers have lost access to their fields to make way for a major oil project launched by French oil giant Total, which has paid no compensation for the fallout from its new pipeline plan, two environmental watchdogs said Tuesday.
Bio Fuel
Sludge-powered bacteria generate more electricity, faster
Changing the surface chemistry of electrodes leads to the preferential growth of a novel electroactive bacterium that could support improved energy-neutral wastewater treatment.
Bio Fuel
A controllable membrane to pull carbon dioxide out of exhaust streams
A new system developed by chemical engineers at MIT could provide a way of continuously removing carbon dioxide from a stream of waste gases, or even from the air.
Oil and Gas
One small step for a laboratory, one giant leap toward a model region for hydrogen
Chemists at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt have discovered how electrodes can be improved in the future using an innovative process.
Energy News
Unprecedented energy use since 1950 has transformed humanity’s geologic footprint
A new study coordinated by CU Boulder makes clear the extraordinary speed and scale of increases in energy use, economic productivity and global population that have pushed the Earth towards a new geological epoch, known as the Anthropocene.
Bio Fuel
Membranes for capturing carbon dioxide from the air
Climate change caused by emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is a most important issue for our society.
Oil and Gas
Philippines lifts ban on oil and gas exploration in South China Sea
The Philippines has lifted a moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the disputed South China Sea, which the government said Friday could fast-track talks with Beijing on a joint energy project.