Manila (AFP) Oct 16, 2020 - 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.
Stanford CA (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 - In an entirely new approach to making lithium-ion batteries lighter, safer and more efficient, scientists at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory h
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 - In the search for solutions to ever-worsening environmental problems, such as the depletion of fossil fuels and climate change, many have turned to the potential of thermoelectric materials to gener
Turku, Finland (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 - The great global challenges of our time, including climate change, energy security and scarcity of natural resources, promote a transition from the linear fossil-based economy to the sustainable bio
Linkoping, Sweden (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 - Researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linkoping University, have for the first time demonstrated an organic battery. It is of a type known as a redox flow battery, with a large cap
Colombo (AFP) Oct 15, 2020 - The captain of a fire-damaged supertanker that leaked fuel off the coast of Sri Lanka has been fined 12 million rupees ($65,000) for causing the spill and failing to inform officials of the environmental damage.
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 - Physicists from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the University of Rochester have made a breakthrough in the long sought-after quest for a room-temperature superconductor, what they call the
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 - While the ongoing Corona pandemic continues to threaten millions of lives around the world, the first half of 2020 saw an unprecedented decline in CO2 emissions - larger than during the financial cr
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 - Powerful picosecond generators are in demand in various fields of experimental electrophysics to produce ultrashort electron beams and X-ray pulses in vacuum diodes and to form runaway electron flow
Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) Oct 14, 2020 - European Central Bank head Christine Lagarde on Wednesday said there should be a greater push to invest in green projects if countries are serious about meeting their climate protection goals.
Rome (AFP) Oct 14, 2020 - South Sudan's government and National Salvation Front (NAS) rebels agreed on Wednesday to a meeting between their military commanders, while falling short of committing to an existing ceasefire.
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 - Scientists have long sought to harness fusion as an inexhaustible and carbon-free energy source. Within the past few years, groundbreaking high-temperature superconductor technology (HTS) sparked a
Daegu, South Korea (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 - Materials scientists Sungwon Lee and Koteeswara Reddy Nandanapalli at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) developed the fabrication process with colleagues in Korea. A ke
Paris (AFP) Oct 13, 2020 - Only massive investment in clean energy can help overcome the economic crisis caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic while setting the world on a path to meeting its objectives to slow climate change, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.
Ankara, Turkey (AFP) Oct 12, 2020 - Turkey will redeploy the research ship at the centre of an energy row with Greece to the eastern Mediterranean on Monday, a decision slammed by Athens as a direct threat to peace.
New York (AFP) Oct 11, 2020 - BlackRock, the world's biggest money manager, made headlines early this year when it pledged to prioritize climate change in its investments and pare down its coal holdings.
