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Fracking leaves heavy footprint in Argentina's Patagonia
Dec 12, 2019 (AFP)
Vaca Muerta, a huge sweep of western Patagonian wilderness, sits on the world's second largest reserve of shale gas and its fourth largest oil reserves. A push ...
Technologies and scientific advances needed to track methane levels in atmosphere
Dec 11, 2019 (SPX)
Methane is the second most important human-made greenhouse gas and is rising in the atmosphere more rapidly than predicted for reasons that are not well-underst...
New York judge sides with Exxon Mobil in climate fraud case
Dec 10, 2019 (AFP)
The ruling by Barry Ostrager, a judge in the New York state court, rejected arguments by the state's attorney general that the company duped investors by downpl...
US, Saudi rank bottom of climate class: report
Dec 10, 2019 (AFP)
The Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) measures the emissions, renewable energy share and climate policies of 57 countries and the European Union. It found...
Green hydrogen: Research to enhance efficiency
Dec 10, 2019 (SPX)
Water electrolysis could play a key role in the energy transition if efficiency improvements can be achieved. The findings published recently in the journal Phy...
Erdogan says Turkey, Libya could do joint eastern Med exploration
Dec 09, 2019 (AFP)
Such a move would likely further anger Greece which has criticised the Libya-Turkey agreement as a violation of international maritime law and an infringement o...
Japan weighing visit by Iran's President Rouhani
Dec 09, 2019 (AFP)
Japan has been trying to forge a possible mediator role as tensions rise between its ally Washington and Tehran. Local media has reported in recent days that Ro...
Fossil fuel groups 'destroying' climate talks: NGOs
Dec 07, 2019 (AFP)
A day after tens of thousands marched in the Spanish capital demanding climate action, seven environmental groups raised concerns to AFP over the role of fossil...
Esper: US never discussed, considered sending 14K more troops to Gulf
Dec 06, 2019 (UPI)
"As the Department has stated repeatedly, we were never discussing or considering sending 14,000 additional troops to the Middle East," Esper said in the statem...
Kyrgyzstan sentences former PMs to prison over China-linked graft
Dec 06, 2019 (AFP)
Sapar Isakov, who headed the Central Asian country's government from 2017 to 2018 and Jantoro Satybaldiyev who filled the role from 2012 to 2014 were handed 15 ...
Climate crisis gatecrashes OPEC gathering
Dec 06, 2019 (AFP)
In many countries the 'Fridays for Future' movement have been mobilising young people weekly in order to agitate for action on climate change. On Friday a hundr...
Natural gas drives record CO2 emissions in 2019
Dec 04, 2019 (AFP)
In its annual analysis of fossil fuel trends, the Global Carbon Project said CO2 emissions were on course to rise 0.6 percent this year -- slower than previous ...
Shell wins UK court battle against environmental protesters
Dec 04, 2019 (AFP)
The Court of Session in Edinburgh imposed an injunction against environmental group Greenpeace after its activists spent the night on Shell's Brent Alpha and Br...
Russia's three gas pipelines to China and West
Dec 02, 2019 (AFP)
- Power of Siberia - Billed by Russian President Vladimir Putin as "the world's biggest construction project," the giant pipeline will send Siberian gas to Chin...
Russia cements role as gas 'kingpin' with three new pipelines
Dec 02, 2019 (AFP)
Putin and Xi are to inaugurate by video link-up the "Power of Siberia" pipeline, sending Siberian gas to China in a move that will strengthen their ties amid Mo...
Iraq protests shake up govt, but not oil that funds it
Dec 02, 2019 (AFP)
AFP looks at how the energy industry of OPEC's second-largest producer has weathered the latest unrest and what could affect global markets in the months to com...
Putin, Xi launch 'historic' Russian gas pipeline to China
Dec 02, 2019 (AFP)
Presiding by video link-up over an elaborate televised ceremony, Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping hailed the "Power of Siberia" ...
Six European countries join barter system for Iran trade
Dec 01, 2019 (AFP)
"As founding shareholders of the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX), France, Germany and the United Kingdom warmly welcome the decision taken by ...
Concordia researcher hopes to use big data to make pipelines safer
Nov 28, 2019 (SPX)
Unfortunately, integrity and health are ongoing and serious problems for North America's pipeline infrastructure. According to the US Department of Transportati...
Scientists stumble upon 'large' Turkmenistan gas plant leak
Nov 27, 2019 (AFP)
Writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, they outline how they discovered the leak and calculated that it had emitted around 140 kilotonnes of metha...
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