Washington (AFP) June 14, 2019 - The attacks being blamed on Iran in the Gulf of Oman pose a global and not just an American problem, the acting Pentagon chief said Friday, as he called for an international consensus in solving it.
Beijing (AFP) June 14, 2019 - China on Friday called for dialogue after the United States accused Iran of being behind attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman.
Ottawa (AFP) June 13, 2019 - Canada is falling so far behind on its emissions goal under the Paris Agreement that it would have to double its unpopular carbon tax to catch up, a parliamentary budget officer said Thursday.
Paris (AFP) June 12, 2019 - The European Union's investment arm risks torpedoing the bloc's commitment to abide by the Paris climate goals by financing billions of euros worth of new natural gas infrastructure projects, new analysis said Thursday.
Oslo (AFP) June 12, 2019 - Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest at more than $1 trillion, is set to become greener by withdrawing further from fossil fuels, the Norwegian parliament decided on Wednesday.
Washington (UPI) Jun 11, 2019 - Carbon emissions rose at their fastest rate in seven years in 2018, according to a new report by oil and gas giant British Petroleum.
Upton NY (SPX) Jun 10, 2019 - Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Arkansas have developed a highly efficient catalyst for extracting electrical energy from eth
Daegu, South Korea (SPX) Jun 10, 2019 - Copper and platinum nanoparticles added to the surface of a blue titania photocatalyst significantly improve its ability to recycle atmospheric carbon dioxide into hydrocarbon fuels. The modif
Paris (AFP) June 7, 2019 - 2018 was a golden year for natural gas with demand surging worldwide, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Friday, prompting concern from environmental groups over the climate impact of the world's new favourite fuel.
Richland WA (SPX) Jun 04, 2019 - A research group led by Washington State University scientists has found a way to turn daily plastic waste products into jet fuel. In a new paper published in the journal Applied Energy, WSU's
Washington (UPI) Jun 3, 2019 - F/A-18E Super Hornets and E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes from the U.S. Navy's Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and the Air Force's B-52H Stratofortress conducted joint exercises in the Arabian Sea amid rising tensions with Iran.
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 - Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China University of Petroleum (Beijing) have demonstrated that CO2 may make a better hydraulic fracturing (fracking) fluid than water. Their researc
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 - Scientists from Skoltech, Moscow State University (MSU) and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have proposed a new approach to replacing carbon atoms with nitrogen atoms in the superc
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 - Scientists from the University of British Columbia, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Maryland, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Google are conducting a mult
Newcastle NY (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 - The first thermodynamically-reversible chemical reactor capable of producing hydrogen as a pure product stream represents a transformational step forward in the chemical industry, the authors of a
New York (AFP) June 3, 2019 - It's a tall order indeed: How do you make aging, energy-hungry skyscrapers more efficient and less polluting? The city of New York, the historic capital of the skyscraper, is determined to do so by requiring the enormous buildings to drastically curtail their energy consumption.
