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
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
Lemont IL (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 - Materials by design: Argonne researchers use genetic algorithms for better superconductors. Owners of thoroughbred stallions carefully breed prizewinning horses over generations to eke out fra
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
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.
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 - A research team from U of T Engineering has developed a new electrochemical path to transform CO2 into valuable products such as jet fuel or plastics. The technology could significantly improve the
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 - NCCR MARVEL researchers have developed a novel microscopic theory that is able to describe heat transport in very general ways, and applies equally well to ordered or disordered materials such as cr
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.
