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China slams 'selfish' US Middle East policies
Nov 27, 2019 (AFP)
While US President Donald Trump has decided to abruptly withdraw troops from northeast Syria and reimpose sweeping sanctions on Iran, Beijing -- the world's top...
Chemical herders could impact oil spill cleanup
Nov 27, 2019 (SPX)
Lakshmana Chandrala, Franz O'Meally and Joseph Katz will present their findings at 8:11 am on Nov. 26 as a part of the American Physical Society's Division of F...
Enel in 14.4 bln euro decarbonisation push
Nov 26, 2019 (AFP)
"Decarbonisation of the global generation fleet will account for 50 percent of total planned investments, with 14.4 billion euros ($15.9 billion) devoted to the...
New study looks to biological enzymes as source of hydrogen fuel
Nov 26, 2019 (SPX)
The researchers report their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Currently, hydrogen gas is produced using a very complex industria...
Slash emissions now or face climate disaster, UN warns
Nov 26, 2019 (AFP)
The United Nations Environment Programme said that global emissions need to fall by 7.6 percent each year until 2030 to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C. ...
Tiny German oil firm strikes black gold on the Rhine
Nov 24, 2019 (AFP)
As Berlin battles to reach climate neutrality by 2050, minnow Rhein Petroleum sees a niche for its unusually pure crude during the transition phase, although it...
Oil from spill in Brazil washes up in Rio state
Nov 23, 2019 (AFP)
Some 300 grams -- a small quantity of oil -- were found far from the region's most famous beaches, in the sand in the town of Sao Joao da Barra, as the spill mo...
Britain's art world turns its back on oil cash
Nov 21, 2019 (AFP)
Members of the "BP or not BP?" protest group on Tuesday disrupted an event for the British Museum's new exhibition on Troy, which is sponsored by the British oi...
Lincoln Carrier Strike Group finishes scheduled transit into Persian Gulf
Nov 20, 2019 (UPI)
The trip marks the Lincoln's first voyage into the Persian Gulf since being deployed to the region, and comes ahead of the USS Truman and its air wing coming to...
Iraqi protesters shut roads to ports, oil fields
Nov 20, 2019 (AFP)
Correspondent in oil-rich Basra province saw protesters block access routes to the ports of Khor al-Zubair and Umm Qasr, as well as Rumailah oil field. Trucks w...
US aircraft carrier transits Strait of Hormuz
Nov 19, 2019 (AFP)
The group's move through the strategic waterway separating Iran and the United Arab Emirates towards the Gulf was scheduled, and unfolded without incident, the ...
Pollution from Athabasca oil sands affects weather processes
Nov 19, 2019 (SPX)
"The beauty of frozen precipitation such as snow is that it's like a snapshot of atmospheric processes. The snow absorbs the hard metal particles and embeds it ...
Mongolia's new 'cleaner' fuel linked to deaths, illness
Nov 19, 2019 (AFP)
Within hours of arriving, she and her parents both became breathless and nauseous. They desperately called for help -- but by the time medics arrived Gerel, who...
Storing energy in hydrogen 20 times more effective using platinum-nickel catalyst
Nov 18, 2019 (SPX)
By 2050, the national government aims to get almost all of the Netherlands' energy requirements from sustainable sources, such as the sun or the wind. Because t...
Turning waste heat into hydrogen fuel
Nov 18, 2019 (SPX)
One of the challenges of creating hydrogen, however, is that it takes energy--lots of energy. The IEA says that producing all of today's hydrogen just using ele...
Aramco IPO: Market debut of Saudi Arabia's cash cowl
Nov 17, 2019 (AFP)
The kingdom on Sunday put a value of up to $1.71 trillion on the company, short of de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's initial target of $2 trilli...
Maduro says military personnel jailed for alleged plots
Nov 17, 2019 (AFP)
Maduro did not say how many members of the military had been arrested, and provided only a sketchy description of the alleged plots in the interview with privat...
Kuwait defence chief says government quit over embezzlement
Nov 16, 2019 (AFP)
"It is the main reason for the government's resignation", said Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, two days after Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Saba...
Turning more fat and sewage into natural gas
Nov 15, 2019 (SPX)
After treating sewage, wastewater treatment plants are left with solid sludge, called biosolids. For years, utilities have treated biosolids with microbes that ...
How everyday products are supercharging landfill gas, and what that means
Nov 15, 2019 (SPX)
While it's a problem today, the researchers say it could be an opportunity to get more energy out of landfill gas. The compounds, called "siloxanes," are effici...
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