Washington DC (UPI) Dec 05, 2018 - Australia's Melbana oil exploration company, which has rights in a Cuban area known as block 9, will now also work to enhance production from the separate Santa Cruz offshore field, which has been producing oil for over a decade.
Atlanta GA (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 - As demand for meat and dairy products increases across the world, much attention has landed on how livestock impact the environment, from land usage to greenhouse gas emissions. Now researcher
Behror, India (AFP) Dec 4, 2018 - Ratan Kumar once battled India's brutal summers with damp bedsheets and midnight baths. Now he is among millions upon millions of Indians using air conditioning - helping make the world hotter still.
Washington (UPI) Dec 4, 2018 - Crude oil prices looked stronger early Tuesday with ongoing speculation that OPEC may announce production cuts after Thursday's meeting, with analysts adding that funds have restarted to rebuild long positions.
Swansea UK (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 - Harnessing nuclear fusion, which powers the sun and stars, to help meet earth's energy needs, is a step closer after researchers showed that using two types of imaging can help them assess the safet
York UK (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 - Scientists studying the digestive system of a curious wood-eating crustacean have discovered it may hold the key to sustainably converting wood into biofuel. Gribble are small marine invertebr
Washington (UPI) Dec 4, 2018 - U.S. fuel prices on Tuesday were lower than a year ago for the first time in 18 months, with the national average sitting at $2.46 per gallon - 2 cents below last year.
Washington (UPI) Dec 3, 2018 - Crude oil prices looked stronger early Monday after advances in trade talks between the United States and China reduced concern about a possible economic slowdown caused by trade barriers potentially curbing oil demand.
Fort Collins CO (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 - Hold a cold drink on a hot day, and watch as small droplets form on the glass, eventually coalescing into a layer of moisture (and prompting you to reach for a coaster). This basic physical pr
Boston MA (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 - MIT researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive materials and requiring no fossil fuel-generated power. The passive system, which could be used to s
Meguro, Japan (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 - NIMS, Kyushu University and Kyoto University jointly identified a mechanism by which a hybrid material composed of palladium (Pd) and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) is capable of storing approximat
Paris (AFP) Dec 3, 2018 - French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe holds talks with party leaders on Monday as Paris scrambles to forge a response to violence by anti-government protesters that has left hundreds injured nationwide and caused widespread destruction around the capital.
Washington (UPI) Dec 3, 2018 - The state of Qatar, with over 600,000 barrels of daily oil output, on Monday quit its membership in OPEC, after nearly six decades, to shift its focus to natural gas.
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 - Extracting gas from new sources is vital in order to supplement dwindling conventional supplies. Shale reservoirs host gas trapped in the pores of mudstone, which consists of a mixture of silt miner
Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 - Professor Anthony O'Mullane said the potential for the chemical storage of renewable energy in the form of hydrogen was being investigated around the world. The Australian Government is interested
Singapore (AFP) Dec 3, 2018 - Oil prices soared more than five percent on Monday after Russia and Saudi Arabia renewed a pact to cap output, while the US agreed to halt raising tariffs on Chinese imports, stalling a trade row that many feared could hit demand for the commodity.
