Cairo (AFP) Sept 9, 2022 - The leaders of two dozen African countries Friday urged wealthier nations to uphold their aid pledges so the continent can tackle climate change impacts for which it shares little blame.
Libreville (AFP) Sept 2, 2022 - African countries on Friday agreed on a common push to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius - a goal that scientists fear is increasingly elusive - at upcoming UN climate talks.
Nairobi (AFP) Sept 7, 2023 - Renewables funding, global finance reform and carbon taxes head the demands formulated by African nations at a summit in Nairobi this week as the world heads towards annual climate negotiations.
Paris (AFP) Sept 20, 2023 - French advertising agency Havas has won the media account of oil giant Shell, the companies confirmed Wednesday, sparking criticism from campaigners and the immediate walkout of one anti-fossil fuel client.
Stockholm (AFP) Sept 11, 2020 - Activists from Greenpeace said on Friday they were blockading an oil refinery in western Sweden as a protest against a planned expansion of the facility.
Bangkok (AFP) Sept 6, 2011 - Huge energy projects to transport oil and gas across Myanmar to China are fuelling human rights abuses, including forced labour, violence, evictions and land confiscation, activists warned Tuesday.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 2, 2009 - The leader of Abkhazia said Wednesday he had ordered the destruction of any Georgian ship violating the de-facto sea borders of Georgia's rebel region in a growing row over shipping in the region.
Khartoum (AFP) Sept 21, 2018 - A Sudanese military jet has crashed near the city of Omdurman, killing the two pilots on board, the army said on Friday, in the latest accident to hit its ageing fleet.
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 03, 2026 - A 35-metre diameter parachute destined to slow the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover during its descent through the Martian atmosphere has undergone heat sterilisation at the European Space Agency's t
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 03, 2026 - Researchers have achieved a power conversion efficiency of 20.21 percent in pseudo-planar heterojunction organic solar cells by introducing a crystalline polymer buffer layer that shields against so
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 03, 2026 - A new study published in the journal Biochar demonstrates that combining biochar with advanced polyzwitterionic hydrogels can sharply improve the performance of solar-driven water evaporation system
Los Angeles, CA (SPX) Jun 03, 2026 - ThinKom Solutions has unveiled Alecto, a self-funded, mobile high-power microwave (HPM) directed energy weapon designed to defeat unmanned aircraft system (UAS) swarms. Based in Hawthorne, Californi
Los Angeles, CA (SPX) Jun 03, 2026 - York Space Systems (NYSE: YSS) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ALL.SPACE, a UK-based developer of advanced satellite communications terminals and multi-network connectivity solutions. U
Los Angeles, CA (SPX) Jun 03, 2026 - BlackSky Technology Inc. has secured a nearly $30 million, one-year Assured subscription contract from an international defense customer seeking guaranteed access to real-time space-based tactical i
London, UK (SPX) Jun 03, 2026 - Researchers at the University of Oxford have demonstrated a new class of quantum interaction using a single trapped ion, achieving for the first time a fourth-order effect called quadsqueezing. The
London, UK (SPX) ) Jun 03, 2026 - Policies that have driven significant reductions in deforestation across the Brazilian Amazon over the past two decades have largely failed to address forest degradation - a slower, less visible, an
