Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 - One way that scientists seek to bring to Earth the fusion process that powers the sun and stars is trapping hot, charged plasma gas within a twisting magnetic coil device shaped like a breakfast cru
Caracas (AFP) June 24, 2020 - Venezuela accused the United States on Wednesday of an act of provocation after a US warship steamed close to the South American country's territorial waters the day before.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 - With the imminent threat of a climate crisis hanging over our heads, it has become crucial to develop efficient alternatives to fossil fuels. One option is to use clean sources of fuels called biofu
Shenzhen (XNA) Jun 24, 2020 - China's electric vehicle battery market is expected to embrace better-quality products with lower prices as the nation opens the industry to both domestic and international players, leading to fierc
College Station TX (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 - Porous rock containing oil and natural gas are buried so deep inside the earth that shale operators rely on complex models of the underground environment to estimate fossil fuel recovery. These simu
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 23, 2020 - The USS Nitze sailed into contested waters off the coast of Venezuela Tuesday in what the Navy describes as a freedom of navigation operation contesting an excessive maritime claim by Venezuela.
Paris (AFP) June 23, 2020 - US-based oil and gas majors are lagging well behind their European counterparts when it comes to plans for cutting emissions to comply with the Paris climate deal, according to analysis released Wednesday.
Baghdad (AFP) June 22, 2020 - Iraq's economy could reach irreversible lows within the next year unless urgent reform measures are adopted, its finance minister warned in an exclusive interview with AFP on Monday.
Copenhagen (AFP) June 22, 2020 - Denmark announced Monday that the country's political parties had agreed on a climate deal paving the way for an increased carbon tax aimed at drastically reducing emissions, though environmental groups found the deal lacking in substance.
Birmingham UK (SPX) Jun 21, 2020 - A 'smart' system that controls the storage and release of energy from wind turbines will reduce the risk of power cuts and support the increase of wind energy use world-wide, say researchers at the
Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Jun 21, 2020 - A research group at Nagoya University has developed a new technology that can drastically conserve the energy used to capture carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the greenhouse gases, from facilities such
Stanford CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2020 - Wind farms are large, highly technical projects but their development often relies on personal decisions made by individual landowners and small communities. Recognizing the power of the human eleme
Beijing (SPX) Jun 19, 2020 - Catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide (CO2) is a green and sustainable means of synthesizing commodity chemicals such as methanol. This conversion process is key to realizing the methanol econo
St. Louis MO (SPX) Jun 19, 2020 - Electrification of the transportation sector - one of the largest consumers of energy in the world - is critical to future energy and environmental resilience. Electrification of this sector will re
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 19, 2020 - Economies and consumers can't aspire to both affluence and sustainability, researchers warn in a new paper, published Friday in the journal Nature Communications.
Athens (AFP) June 19, 2020 - The EU must not look weak in enforcing a UN arms embargo on Libya, the Greek government said Friday after recent naval incidents involving Turkey.
