The President of the United States did several things with his agreement today with China, India, and South Africa:

For centuries a monastic fortress in Bhutan's Himalayas has sheltered ancient Buddhist relics and scriptures from earthquakes, fires and Tibetan invasions. Now the lamas here may have met their match - global warming.At least 53 million cubic metres of glacier

Ministers of Energy from different African U-nion (AU) member countries have agreed to establish a continental oil fund that will boost the performance of the sector in Africa.In a meeting they held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia recently, the officials responsible

Expect the issue of water conservation to gain more interest in discussions of energy development — be it green, black or somewhere between.The arid West is likely become more arid with climate change, according to the world's top scientists, and

With the whole world clamouring for reduction in the burning of carbon in order to slow down the effects of global warming, Nigeria may soon be able to reduce its carbon emission by using ethanol fuel as substitute for kerosene.Boma

The shale gas story, which I summarize: "New drilling techniques and discoveries have vastly expanded the available recoverable natural gas, expanding reserves so much that we no longer have to worry about running out, and we will even be able

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) has projected that a rise in India's gross domestic product (GDP) would lead to increased oil consumption next year. India oil demand was not affected by the economic crisis in 2009, and next

Iranian troops who for three days controversially occupied a disputed border oil well left the facility during the night but remain on Iraq's soil, Iraqi officials said on Sunday."The Iranian forces have pulled back 50 metres from the well and

LONDON (Reuters) - Two European oil refiners have stopped buying Saudi Arabia's heaviest crude and are buying other grades after supplies were cut in line with OPEC output curbs last year, officials at the refiners said on Friday.Top oil exporter

Arab News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --As I write these lines on the train from Amersfoot to Frankfurt, with white, fluffy snow as far as the eye can see, the world seems engrossed with the deliberations in Copenhagen,

A geologist searching for cheap, clean energy is facing up to five years in jail for causing a series of earthquakes after drilling 3 miles (5km) down in an effort to generate electricity from hot rocks.Markus Hring, the head of

The Altiplano, or high plain, of Bolivia and Peru is getting a new climate. In the past 60 years temperatures have risen, rainfall patterns have changed and soils have begun to dry out even further. As a result, farmers move

December 15, 2009 - When it comes to biofuel adoption, the airlines are way ahead of the automakers. In August, synthetic fuel maker Rentech signed a deal to produce 1.5 million gallons of diesel made from sewer sludge to power

China, the world's largest steelmaker, faces a shortage of coking coal that may drive imports next year and spur a fight for resources with Japanese and South Korean mills, two Chinese industry groups said. "Domestic demand for coking coal will

Canada has been handed "fossil awards" and accused of being "climate criminals" almost daily -- often with the accompanying chorus that crude oil production in the tar sands is "two to three times worse" for the environment than any other

Four months ago, with little fanfare, the State Department sent a full-time senior diplomat, Alan Misenheimer, to live in Iraq's disputed oil-rich city Kirkuk. For the Obama administration, which had been hoping to back out of its day-to-day involvement in

Those who claim that the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 to get control of the country's giant oil reserves will be left scratching their heads by the results of last weekend's auction of Iraqi oil contracts: Not a single U.S.

Personal-scale solar energy is essential to meeting the world's energy demands in the next century, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Daniel Nocera said in the latest issue of Inorganic Chemistry.Nocera envisions a catalyst that could split water molecules into hydrogen

A detailed literature review published on Tuesday by the American and Canadian wind industry associations found no medical basis for the health complaints that often arise near large wind-farm projects.But the 85-page industry-financed study is unlikely to settle the persistent

China currently enjoys a near-monopoly on the rare-earth oxides needed to make wind turbines, electric cars and other green technologies, but that could change, thanks to a discovery by British researchers.