Brussels (AFP) Dec 11, 2019 - The EU's top official Wednesday launched the bloc's new Green Deal, hailing it as a strategy for jobs and economic growth, not just for cutting emissions.
Madrid (AFP) Dec 10, 2019 - The United States and Saudi Arabia are among major polluters showing hardly any signs of reducing their greenhouse gas production, a global assessment of countries' emissions trajectories said Tuesday at United Nations climate talks.
Dresden, Germany (SPX) Dec 10, 2019 - Laboratory experiments and a parabolic flight campaign have enabled an international team of researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) to gain new insights into water electrol
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 10, 2019 - The motions of plasmas may be notoriously difficult to model, but they can be better understood by analysing what happens when protons are scattered by atoms of hydrogen. In itself, this property is
Berlin (AFP) Dec 10, 2019 - German chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer said Tuesday it aims to become climate-neutral by 2030, slashing or compensating all of its greenhouse gas emissions.
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 10, 2019 - Here's a case where detours speed up traffic. The result may be better batteries for transportation, electronics and solar energy storage. Scientists at Rice University's Brown School of Engin
New York (AFP) Dec 10, 2019 - A New York judge sided with Exxon Mobil on Tuesday in a closely-watched environmental case, concluding the oil giant did not mislead investors in its climate change disclosures.
Ankara (AFP) Dec 9, 2019 - Turkey and Libya could hold joint exploration activities in the eastern Mediterranean, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday after the two governments signed a maritime deal.
Madrid (AFP) Dec 9, 2019 - Mohamed Nasr, head of environmental affairs in Egypt's foreign ministry, is chair of the Africa Group, a 54-nation negotiating bloc at the UN climate conference under way in Madrid.
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 09, 2019 - Using a clever technique that causes unruly crystals of iron selenide to snap into alignment, Rice University physicists have drawn a detailed map that reveals the rules of the road for electrons
Dresden, Germany (SPX) Dec 09, 2019 - Nuclear physics usually involves high energies, as illustrated by experiments to master controlled nuclear fusion. One of the problems is how to overcome the strong electrical repulsion between atom
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 9, 2019 - Japan is weighing inviting Iran's President Hassan Rouhani for a state visit, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday, as local media reported the trip was likely to happen this month.
Los Altos CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2019 - The burgeoning bioenergy sector must peak and decline in the next 30 years to alleviate extreme pressure on land, warns researchers in a new analysis published in Global Change Biology. They assert
Paris (AFP) Dec 7, 2019 - Oil and gas groups were accused Saturday of seeking to influence climate talks in Madrid by paying millions in sponsorship and sending dozens of lobbyists to delay what scientists say is a necessary and rapid cut in fossil fuel use.
Vienna (AFP) Dec 6, 2019 - The climate crisis was the unexpected guest at this week's gathering of the OPEC bloc of oil producers and its allies which this time happened to coincide with the UN's climate summit in Madrid.
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (AFP) Dec 6, 2019 - Two former prime ministers in Central Asian Kyrgyzstan were sentenced to long jail terms on corruption charges Friday in a trial that roiled the national elite and fuelled suspicion toward China.
