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Death toll rises to 18 in China tanker truck blast
Jun 14, 2020 (AFP)
The force of the blast on Saturday afternoon caused nearby homes and factories to collapse, and sent huge clouds of black smoke billowing into the air as flames...
Death toll rises to 19 in China tanker truck blast
Jun 14, 2020 (AFP)
The force of the blast on Saturday afternoon caused nearby homes and factories to collapse, and sent huge clouds of black smoke billowing into the air as flames...
NGO accuses France of starting Mozambique 'climate bomb'
Jun 14, 2020 (AFP)
"For several years now, the entire arsenal of French economic diplomacy has been working to defend French interests in Mozambique," the NGO said, notably "a myr...
Thousands more evacuated from site of Indian oil-well blast
Jun 11, 2020 (AFP)
Oil India engineers have been battling since May 27 to cap a blowout that this week ignited a huge ball of fire in Tinsukia district of Assam state. Company off...
Turkey blocked EU embargo check on ship near Libya
Jun 11, 2020 (AFP)
A Greek navy ship working under Operation Irini tried to check a cargo vessel off the Libyan coast on Wednesday but was warned off by its Turkish military escor...
Two dead as fire rages after India gas well blowout
Jun 10, 2020 (AFP)
A wall of flames and smoke continues to roar into the sky a day after the gas triggered an explosion at the well run by state-owned Oil India in the northeaster...
ULEMCo delivers another hydrogen vehicle first
Jun 10, 2020 (SPX)
Based on an average duty cycle, the new ULEMCo vehicle is expected to deliver a 33% reduction in carbon emissions. The benefit is further enhanced by the vehicl...
New nanodevice could use solar energy to produce hydrogen
Jun 10, 2020 (SPX)
However, this clean and inexhaustible energy source is difficult to capture and store. In a novel study, scientists propose using solar energy to produce hydrog...
Integrating nanomaterial with light-absorbing molecule powers hydrogen production from water and sun
Jun 10, 2020 (SPX)
This method utilizes solar energy to split water (H2O) molecules and obtain dihydrogen (H2). The H2 can then be used as a carbon-free fuel or as raw material in...
Germany eyes 'world number one' spot in green hydrogen
Jun 10, 2020 (AFP)
"For reasons related to our competitiveness but above all to reach our ambitious climate goals", ministers have agreed to pump nine billion euros ($10.2 billion...
2019 fossil fuel subsidies nearly $500 bn: OECD/IEA
Jun 09, 2020 (AFP)
Subsidies for fossil fuel consumption alone declined $120 billion, or 27 percent, compared to 2018 due mainly to lower oil and gas prices, according to Internat...
Huge fire breaks out at India gas well blowout
Jun 09, 2020 (AFP)
The gas well at an oil field managed by state-owned Oil India started leaking in late May in Tinsukia district of Assam state, and the firm said late last week ...
Siberian oil spill contaminates Arctic lake
Jun 09, 2020 (AFP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a state of emergency last week after 21,000 tonnes of diesel leaked from a fuel reservoir that collapsed May 29 outsid...
Environmental concern grows over India gas well blowout
Jun 08, 2020 (AFP)
They announced the investigation as experts from Singapore arrived to try and stem the blowout near popular ecotourism spots. The gas well in an oil field manag...
Arctic Circle oil spill
Jun 08, 2020 (SPX)
According to media reports, the spillage occurred when a fuel tank at a power plant near Norilsk, operated by a subsidiary of Norilsk Nickel, collapsed on Frida...
Floating dams fail to stop fuel spill in Russian Arctic, official says
Jun 08, 2020 (AFP)
"Behind the floating dams, we see a large concentration of petroleum products," deputy ecology minister in the Krasnoyarsk region Yulia Gumenyuk said, according...
Russia to review structures on permafrost after Arctic spill
Jun 05, 2020 (AFP)
The office of the prosecutor general said in a statement that a preliminary conclusion of the spill's causes is the "sagging of the ground and the concrete foun...
OPEC, allies agree to extend deep output cuts through July
Jun 05, 2020 (SPX)
The 13-member cartel and its allies, notably Russia, decided to extend by a month deep May and June cuts agreed in April to boost prices, the Organization of th...
UN extends mandate to inspect Libya-bound ships for arms
Jun 05, 2020 (AFP)
The renewal had already been unanimously decided upon last year by the 15 members of the Security Council, but Russia, which backs strongman Khalifa Haftar in h...
Virus deaths approach 400,000 as oil producers extend output cuts
Jun 05, 2020 (SPX)
Brazil has the world's third-highest death toll but President Jair Bolsonaro has threatened to pull out of the World Health Organization (WHO) over "ideological...
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