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EU fossil fuel energy production hits record low
Aug 29, 2023 (AFP)
The decline in coal and gas generation was driven by a drop in electricity consumption across the bloc of 4.6 percent amid high power prices, which surged after...
UN experts challenge Saudi Aramco over climate change
Aug 27, 2023 (AFP)
A cache of correspondence was published Saturday on a United Nations human rights special procedures website, exactly two months after it was sent. The letters ...
Ecuador banned Amazon oil. Brazil's Lula wants to drill
Aug 25, 2023 (AFP)
Oil is an increasingly uncomfortable subject for Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who casts himself as a climate crusader, but also faces criticis...
Ecuador says vote to halt Amazon oil drilling a 'terrible precedent'
Aug 24, 2023 (AFP)
Ecuadorans voted in a referendum on Sunday to halt the exploitation of an oil block in Yasuni National Park, one of the most diverse biospheres in the world, a ...
Graphene discovery could help generate hydrogen cheaply and sustainably
Aug 24, 2023 (SPX)
The unexpected result started a debate in the community because theory predicted that it would take billions of years for a proton to permeate through graphene'...
Iraq, Turkey talk water, oil and the PKK
Aug 22, 2023 (AFP)
Hakan Fidan's visit to Baghdad and Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region will prepare a trip by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for which a date has not ye...
Ecuador votes to halt oil drilling in Amazon's Yasuni National Park
Aug 21, 2023 (AFP)
Ecuador is one of eight nations sharing the Amazon basin, a vital carbon sink facing widespread destruction at a time when the world is grappling to curb climat...
Big potential for green hydrogen in North Africa: report
Aug 17, 2023 (AFP)
So-called green hydrogen is set "to redraw the global energy and resource map as early as 2030, creating a $1.4 trillion-a-year market by 2050," according to th...
Alarm raised over Australian miner's methane emissions
Aug 17, 2023 (AFP)
If all its plans go ahead, Whitehaven's coal mines are on track to release more than 60,000 tonnes a year of the potent greenhouse gas by 2030 -- about twice cu...
Norway's DNO resumes production in Iraqi Kurdistan oil field
Aug 17, 2023 (AFP)
A dispute over oil has long strained relations between authorities in Baghdad, Iraqi Kurdistan -- an autonomous region in northern Iraq -- and neighbouring Turk...
'Fuel of the future': Gulf states bet on 'green' hydrogen
Aug 17, 2023 (AFP)
Oil producers Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman are investing heavily in the climate-friendly fuel in a search for alternative revenues to crude a...
In a first, Ecuador to vote on oil drilling in the Amazon
Aug 17, 2023 (AFP)
In an unusual example of climate democracy, it is Ecuadorians who will decide what is more important, drilling for oil or protecting the Amazon, in a closely wa...
Climate change contributing to inflation: Norway fund boss
Aug 16, 2023 (AFP)
But a positive development in the world is artificial intelligence, which will enable us to concentrate on the "most fun" tasks, Nicolai Tangen, the chief execu...
Kenya's debt rises to historic high: treasury
Aug 16, 2023 (AFP)
Total public debt rose by a record 1.56 trillion shillings ($10.8 billion) in the financial year ended June 30 to 10.1 trillion shillings ($70.75 billion), brea...
US beefs up Gulf deployment over Iran oil tanker threat
Aug 16, 2023 (AFP)
Three thousand additional US personnel on troop-landing warships have already passed through the Red Sea, and US-led maritime forces are warning ships against a...
Oil and gas exploration finally underway offshore Lebanon, minister announces
Aug 16, 2023 (UPI)
"For your information, today, Wednesday 8/16/2023, the oil and gas exploration vessel in Block No. 9 has now reached its drilling point," Lebanese Minister of P...
Resilient demand puts gas prices within 10 cents of year-ago levels, AAA says
Aug 13, 2023 (UPI)
The travel club put the national average retail price at $3.85 for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline, the highest level so far this year. Monday's national ...
UN finishes removing oil from decaying Yemen tanker
Aug 11, 2023 (AFP)
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres "welcomes the news that the ship-to-ship transfer of oil from the FSO Safer to the Yemen replacement vessel has been safel...
Gold-nickel alloy boosts hydrogen evolution reaction efficiency
Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)
At the center of this process is the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). An electrochemical cell does the job of water splitting. Here, hydrogen gas surfaces at ...
Oil prices hit four-month high on demand and supply-side concerns
Aug 09, 2023 (UPI)
The price for Brent crude oil, the global benchmark, was trading near $87 per barrel as of mid-day Wednesday. Brent last broke through the $87 mark on April 12....
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