The UK and UAE are…
A U.S.-based biotechnology firm is…
The S&P 500 reached record…
After a year-long investigation into Gazprom, the Russian natural gas giant which monopolises the supply of natural gas to central and eastern Europe, the European Union’s Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia,…
Many in the UK are hopeful that using hydraulic fracturing to access and extract shale oil and gas reserves in places such as Lancashire, Wiltshire, and Oxfordshire will enable the…
Japan has become one of just five countries to have achieved 10 gigawatts of installed solar photovoltaic capacity when at the end of August it reached 10.5GW.Germany…
For the first time in more than a decade China actually became a net exporter of fuel oil, however it seems that that remarkable achievement will only last for a…
In November 2012 Lend Lease won the planning permission to begin constructing the first new homes at Elephant and Castle, in central London, as part of the regeneration scheme that…
Climate change is real and poses a real threat to society. In many cases, such as the freak storms Sandy and Katrina, the severe droughts, floods, and the wildfires experienced…
Over the last 14 months, Venezuela has held launching parties for three new oil tankers, a clear sign of the nation’s ambitions to expand its fleet as it prepares to…
In 2011 a tsunami hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, flooding its equipment, causing massive failures to cooling systems, and eventually leading to a meltdown and explosion.The…
As of 12 o’clock midnight on the 30th September 2013, the US federal government has officially shutdown due to Congress’s failure to pass a new budget for the coming fiscal…
Whilst the US government, led by President Barack Obama, is trying to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent by 2020, the US Army is investing in renewable energy sources…
On Monday the trial began to determine whether BP’s actions during the 20th April 2010, Deepwater Horizon blowout and spill were of sufficient level as to be grossly negligent and…
IKEA, the Swedish flat-pack furniture specialist and world’s largest furniture retailer, has announced that it will, for the first time, sell solar panels at all of its British stores. The…
Britain is likely to face a tight winter for natural gas as it finds itself with few alternative sources of cheap natural gas, forcing it to rely heavily on Norwegian…
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report on Friday, in which it stated that the evidence that climate change is caused by human…
Lately the bad news emanating from Japan is that the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant have been leaking thousands of gallons of water ever since the earthquake that…
Weeks of negotiations between the US and Russia over the fate of Syria and it’s chemical weapons are finally coming to a head as the United Nations Security Council met…
The answer to harnessing cost-effective solar power may be just around the corner. A team of researchers from the University of Alberta developed a cost-effective solar cell made…
Currently around 870 million people in the world do not receive enough food to live healthily, equivalent to one in eight of the world’s population. A new report by…
A common argument that people use when protesting against the development of wind farms near to communities is the loud noise created by the turbines. They even claim that noises…
Torrential rain earlier in the month caused mass flooding across the state of Colorado, a state that in recent years has experienced a boom in oil and gas drilling and…