Riedstadt, Germany (AFP) Nov 24, 2019 - Outside the small town of Riedstadt, near Frankfurt, a bright green derrick pumping oil from deep underground marks a rare rural German site where that is still a profitable business.
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Nov 23, 2019 - Oil from a spill that has contaminated a stretch of Brazil's coast was detected in Rio de Janeiro state, the navy said Saturday, as President Jair Bolsonaro warned the country was preparing for the worst.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 22, 2019 - Humans, one day, may be able to produce their own electrical energy in the same way electric eels do, according to a research team based in Japan. It's the ultimate goal that begins with understandi
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Nov 21, 2019 - Researchers from U of T Engineering and Caltech have designed a new and improved system for efficiently converting CO2, water, and renewable energy into ethylene - the precursor to a wide range of p
London (AFP) Nov 21, 2019 - Oil companies are becoming increasingly unfashionable partners for British cultural institutions, as they ditch corporate sponsorship under pressure from artists and environmentalists.
Baghdad (AFP) Nov 20, 2019 - Anti-government demonstrators in southern Iraq shut roads to two major ports and a key oil field Wednesday, port officials and AFP correspondents said, leading to a brief operational halt.
Washington (UPI) Nov 20, 2019 - The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group finished a scheduled transit through Strait of Hormuz and is now operating in the Persian Gulf, U.S. Navy officials said Tuesday.
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Nov 19, 2019 - Scientists have been looking at pollution affecting the air, land and water around the Athabaska Oil Sands for some time. After looking at contaminants in snow taken from up-to 25 km away from the o
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Nov 19, 2019 - Two fundamental goals of humanity are to eradicate poverty and reduce climate change, and it is critical that the world knows whether achieving these goals will involve trade-offs. New IIASA researc
Ulaanbaatar (AFP) Nov 19, 2019 - One cold night in October, Gerel Ganbaatar decided to stay with her parents in one of Mongolia's traditional ger communities on the outskirts of the capital - a decision which would prove fatal.
Hong Kong (SPX) Nov 19, 2019 - Dr Tony Shien-Ping Feng of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and his team invented a Direct Thermal Charging Cell (DTCC) which can effectively convert hea
Paris (AFP) Nov 19, 2019 - Switching to renewables could cut the health impacts of air pollution from power generation as much as 80 percent by mid-century, experts said Tuesday.
Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Nov 19, 2019 - An obstacle to generating fusion reactions inside facilities called tokamaks is that producing the current in plasma that helps create confining magnetic fields happens in pulses. Such pulses, gener
Princeton NJ (SPX) Nov 19, 2019 - In a boon to wind farms, average daily wind speeds are picking up across much of the globe after about 30 years of gradual slowing. Research led by a team at Princeton University shows that wind spe
Washington (AFP) Nov 19, 2019 - The US aircraft carrier strike group Abraham Lincoln sailed through the key Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday to show Washington's commitment to freedom of navigation, the Pentagon said, amid tensions with Tehran.
Eindhoven, Netherlands (SPX) Nov 18, 2019 - Catalysts accelerate chemical reactions, but the widely used metal platinum is scarce and expensive. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), together with Chinese, Singaporean and
