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
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 - Wearable devices that harvest energy from movement are not a new idea, but a material created at Rice University may make them more practical. The Rice lab of chemist James Tour has adapted la
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.
Baghdad (AFP) June 1, 2019 - Foreign employees of US energy major ExxonMobil will return to work near Iraq's border with Iran Sunday, the oil ministry said, two weeks after being evacuated over tensions between Washington and Tehran.
Apalachicola, United States (AFP) May 31, 2019 - Residents of hot, mosquito-infested Florida know that life there sans air conditioning would be unbearable. Yet the state's 19th century pioneer in the field was dismissed during his lifetime as a crank.
Washington (AFP) May 30, 2019 - Carbon dioxide appears to be more efficient than water for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to extract oil and natural gas, according to a study led by scientists in China published Thursday.
Port Moresby (AFP) May 30, 2019 - Former finance minister James Marape was elected Papua New Guinea's new prime minister Thursday and immediately issued a fiery nationalistic address that put foreign resource companies on notice.
Abu Dhabi (AFP) May 29, 2019 - The United States and the United Arab Emirates announced Wednesday that mutual defense cooperation agreement had come into force, amid increasing tensions between Washington and Tehran.
Houston (AFP) May 28, 2019 - In the heart of Texas oil country, the city of Houston rode high on the oil boom, but then fell hard when the bottom dropped out of crude prices.
University Park PA (SPX) May 27, 2019 - While methane pollution caused by natural gas production in Pennsylvania is underestimated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, natural gas still has half the carbon footprint of underground
Berlin (AFP) May 27, 2019 - Germany has in recent years polished its green image abroad, but the country was only recently forced to admit it will miss a self-imposed 2020 climate target.
Waterloo, Canada (SPX) May 27, 2019 - Wasted food can be affordably turned into a clean substitute for fossil fuels. New technology developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo engineers natural fermentation to produce a
Helsinki (AFP) May 24, 2019 - A Saudi tanker damaged off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in mid-May appears to have leaked a trail of oil, satellite images released on Friday show.
Plainsboro NJ (SPX) May 23, 2019 - Machine learning (ML), a form of artificial intelligence that recognizes faces, understands language and navigates self-driving cars, can help bring to Earth the clean fusion energy that lights the
Washington (UPI) May 23, 2019 - Scientists have demonstrated superconductivity at the highest temperatures yet.
Boston MA (SPX) May 23, 2019 - Unlike water, liquid refrigerants and other fluids that have a low surface tension tend to spread quickly into a sheet when they come into contact with a surface. But for many industrial process it
