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Russia sees melting permafrost behind Arctic fuel spill
Jun 05, 2020 (AFP)
The spill -- which has coloured remote tundra waterways with bright red patches visible from space -- has highlighted the danger of climate change for Russia as...
Etching the road to a hydrogen economy using plasma jets
Jun 04, 2020 (SPX)
One such technique involves using light and catalysts (materials that speed up reactions) to split water (H2O) into hydrogen and oxygen. The catalysts have crys...
Solar hydrogen production: Splitting water with UV is now at almost 100% quantum efficiency
Jun 04, 2020 (SPX)
This latest breakthrough in solar hydrogen production makes the likelihood of scalable, economically viable hydrogen production more than likely, paving the way...
Russia struggles to clean up Arctic river fuel spill
Jun 04, 2020 (AFP)
A diesel reservoir collapsed at a power station outside the northern Siberian city of Norilsk on Friday, releasing 15,000 tonnes of fuel into a river and 6,000 ...
Putin declares state of emergency over Siberian fuel spill
Jun 03, 2020 (AFP)
The spill of over 20,000 tonnes of diesel fuel took place on Friday. A fuel reservoir collapsed at a power plant near the city of Norilsk, located above the Arc...
Europe tries to reassure Russia over Libya arms embargo mission
Jun 03, 2020 (AFP)
European Union representatives spent the closed-door meeting -- which Russia requested -- explaining the EU's naval mission to enforce an arms embargo on Libya,...
Weak demand pushing oil, gas toward 'terminal decline': report
Jun 03, 2020 (AFP)
The value of projected profits for the sector could also fall by two thirds, according to a report from Carbon Tracker, a non-profit financial think tank focuse...
New Sudan defence minister sworn in
Jun 02, 2020 (AFP)
Ibrahim, 62, replaces General Jamal al-Din Omar who died of an unspecified illness while in neighbouring South Sudan for peace talks with the country's main reb...
Detecting methane emissions during COVID-19
Jun 02, 2020 (ESA)
Carbon dioxide is generally produced by the combustion of fossil fuels, while fossil fuel production is one of the largest sources of methane emissions. Accordi...
Threat to national park, wetlands after India gas well blowout
Jun 01, 2020 (AFP)
The gas well in an oil field managed by state-owned Oil India Ltd blew out last Wednesday in Tinsukia district of Assam state, and "started releasing natural ga...
Iraq crude sales slump in May, but revenues inch up
Jun 01, 2020 (AFP)
The OPEC cartel's second-biggest crude producer has been left reeling by the recent worldwide crash in oil prices and a flood of cheap crude from Saudi Arabia. ...
Smart sponge could clean up oil spills
May 29, 2020 (SPX)
With an ability to absorb more than 30 times its weight in oil, the sponge could be used to inexpensively and efficiently clean up oil spills without harming ma...
Iran Guards warn US after receiving new combat vessels
May 28, 2020 (AFP)
The vessels included Ashura-class speedboats, Zolfaghar coastal patrol boats and Taregh submarines, state television reported. "We announce today that wherever ...
Flow-through electrodes make hydrogen 50 times faster
May 27, 2020 (SPX)
Unfortunately, without some kind of affordable energy storage like this, billions of watts of renewable energy are wasted each year. For hydrogen to be the solu...
Russia sent jets to Libya to back mercenaries, says US
May 26, 2020 (AFP)
The warplanes left Russia and first stopped in Syria, where they "were repainted to camouflage their Russian origin" before arriving in Libya, said the US milit...
G20 finance projects give $77 bn a year to fossil fuels: watchdog
May 26, 2020 (AFP)
Despite committing to limit global temperature rises to "well below" two degrees Celsius (3.6 Farenheit) under the Paris deal, G20 countries are still providing...
U.S., Saudi forces conduct training on, around Karan, Kurayn islands
May 26, 2020 (UPI)
The training, which began Sunday and is slated to last through Saturday, follows a similar, shorter training conducted at the end of April, U.S. Naval Forces Ce...
Can oilfield water safely be reused for irrigation in California
May 25, 2020 (SPX)
"We did not find any major water quality issues, nor metals and radioactivity accumulation in soil and crops, that might cause health concerns," said Avner Veng...
The trader who called the 2020 oil crisis
May 24, 2020 (AFP)
Andurand, the 43-year-old founder of London-based Andurand Capital who runs two multi-million-dollar funds, bet in February that the deadly COVID-19 outbreak co...
Iraqi minister seeks Gulf funds to stave off fiscal collapse
May 23, 2020 (AFP)
In his first trip abroad since becoming minister, Ali Allawi met the Saudi finance, energy and foreign ministers in Riyadh on Friday, Iraqi state media reported...
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