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Climate activists block financial institutions in Oslo
Aug 22, 2025 (AFP)
Climate and pro-Palestinian activists, including Greta Thunberg, on Friday temporarily blocked access to Norway's central bank and occupied the headquarters of ...
Clean hydrogen's iridium problem? Solved in an afternoon
Aug 21, 2025 (SPX)
Now, a powerful new tool has found one - within a single afternoon. Invented and developed at Northwestern University, that tool is called a megalibrary. The wo...
Greta Thunberg, activists block Oslo main street in oil protest
Aug 21, 2025 (AFP)
Greta Thunberg and more than 100 more climate activists blocked Oslo's main avenue and a bank branch on Thursday to demand Norway shutter its oil industry, poli...
Greta Thunberg, activists block Norway oil refinery
Aug 18, 2025 (AFP)
Some 200 climate activists including Greta Thunberg of Sweden blocked Norway's largest oil refinery on Monday in a protest demanding an end to the country's oil...
Court halts TotalEnergies South African oil exploration
Aug 14, 2025 (AFP)
A South African court has refused environmental authorisation for planned offshore drilling by French energy giant TotalEnergies near the foot of Africa, in a r...
Mozambique insurgency grows at 'sensitive' time for TotalEnergies' return
Aug 09, 2025 (AFP)
A group affiliated with the Islamic State group, which has led a bloody insurgency in Cabo Delgado province since 2017, claimed responsibility for seven attacks...
Oil industry presence surges at UN plastic talks: NGOs
Aug 08, 2025 (AFP)
More than 180 countries are meeting at the United Nations in Geneva in a bid to thrash out a landmark agreement aimed at tackling the scourge of plastic polluti...
German gas drive fuels fears of climate backsliding
Aug 07, 2025 (UPI)
U.S. increases bounty to $50M for Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro
Aug 07, 2025 (UPI)
The U.S. Departments of State and Justice announced the increased reward, stating that the fortune will go to anyone with information that leads to the arrest a...
Sticky business: India's purchases of Russian oil
Aug 06, 2025 (AFP)
When war broke out in 2022, India jumped at the opportunity of cheap crude, and imports from Russia surged. That has infuriated US President Donald Trump, who h...
Turkmenistan's methane-spewing 'Gateway to Hell' loses its anger
Aug 06, 2025 (AFP)
Once a giant uncontrollable pit of red flames and glowing red embers, the 70-metre (230 feet) wide hole is now just a charred cauldron with only a few pockets o...
Oil executives held in Albania over tax evasion case
Aug 06, 2025 (AFP)
Hongping Xiao will remain in custody, accused of tax evasion and abuse of power, after he was arrested last month, along with nine other current and former comp...
Putin decree allows Russia to increase greenhouse gas emissions
Aug 06, 2025 (AFP)
Russia, the world's fourth-largest emitter of planet-warming carbon dioxide gas, aims to achieve net zero emissions by 2060. But activists say its current clima...
Shell net profit retreats on lower energy prices
Jul 31, 2025 (AFP)
Profit after tax dropped to $8.4 billion compared with $10.9 billion in the first half of 2024, Shell said in an earnings statement. Group revenue dropped nearl...
New Zealand reverses ban on offshore oil and gas exploration
Jul 31, 2025 (AFP)
Resources minister Shane Jones -- who described climate change as "largely moral hysteria" -- said new laws would stoke investment in petroleum exploration and ...
Norwegian cousins battle over oil, climate policy
Jul 30, 2025 (AFP)
Fourteen years on, they now find themselves divided by climate politics: Eriksen is the environment minister in the oil-rich country, while Berg is one of his b...
Fossil-fuel pledge in EU-Trump deal sparks climate fears
Jul 29, 2025 (AFP)
As part of the framework agreed Sunday, the EU said its companies would buy $750 billion of liquefied natural gas, oil and nuclear fuels from the United States ...
Top court takes aim at fossil fuels in sweeping ruling
Jul 24, 2025 (AFP)
The International Court of Justice's first-ever advisory opinion on climate change contained a particularly strong position on fossil fuels that surprised even ...
US Treasury chief says China talks could cover Iran, Russia oil buys
Jul 21, 2025 (AFP)
US President Donald Trump has imposed fresh tariffs on allies and competitors alike this year, and Washington and Beijing in April rapidly hiked duties on each ...
U.N. report cites 'flagrant' violations by Russia and North Korea
Jul 17, 2025 (UPI)
Evidence shows North Korea many times shipped arms and material to Russia, which trained North Korean troops for combat against Ukrainian forces, Seth Bailey, t...
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