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Most public land already open to energy production; Trump wants more
Oct 15, 2025 (UPI)
More than 81% of public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management in the Western United States are already open for oil and gas production leasing, ac...
China, EU stand firm on shipping emission deal despite US threats
Oct 14, 2025 (AFP)
Initially approved in April, the London-based IMO are set to vote on Friday on formally adopting the Net Zero Framework (NZF), the first global carbon-pricing s...
Black gold, green promises: Brazil's climate paradox
Oct 14, 2025 (AFP)
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva thinks so. He is pushing for more oil exploration, including offshore from the Amazon rainforest, while casting him...
US threats cast doubt on shipping emissions deal
Oct 14, 2025 (AFP)
Already approved in April, members of the London-based International Maritime Organization (IMO) are set to formally adopt the Net Zero Framework (NZF) on Frida...
Iraq criticises US sanctions on firm, militias over ties to Iran
Oct 11, 2025 (AFP)
The US government on Thursday announced sanctions on the Al-Muhandis company, a firm with links to the Hashed al-Shaabi or the Popular Mobilisation Force (PMF),...
Venezuela ask for UN Security Council meet over US 'threats'
Oct 10, 2025 (AFP)
At UN headquarters in New York, diplomats told AFP the talks would take place on Friday at 3:00 pm (1900 GMT). The foreign ministry said in a statement that US ...
ExxonMobil returns to Iraq with deal on major oil field
Oct 08, 2025 (AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Shia al-Sudani's office announced the oil ministry had signed the heads of agreement (HoA) on the project in the country's south. Sudani, w...
Palladium filters could enable cheaper, more efficient generation of hydrogen fuel
Oct 06, 2025 (SPX)
Today, palladium-based membranes are used at commercial scale to provide pure hydrogen for semiconductor manufacturing, food processing, and fertilizer producti...
Solar hydrogen reimagined as a profitable clean chemical platform
Oct 06, 2025 (SPX)
Published in Nature Reviews Clean Technology, the paper argues that by integrating high-value chemical synthesis into solar electrolysis systems, the process co...
What Trump's Qatar security pledge means for Mideast
Oct 03, 2025 (AFP)
The security assurance from Washington is unprecedented for an Arab ally and is seen as both a boon for key Gaza mediator Qatar and a rebuke to Israel. Here we ...
NGOs urge no green label for fossil fuel investments
Sep 30, 2025 (AFP)
More than 120 signatories including organisations such as Reclaim Finance, financial institutions as well as legal experts urged Brussels in an open letter to o...
Solar driven process extracts hydrogen fuel directly from air moisture
Sep 30, 2025 (SPX)
Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis (PEMWE) is widely recognized for its efficiency and high-purity hydrogen output, but it requires large amounts of pu...
Venezuela's Maduro ready to declare state of emergency over feared US 'aggression': vice-president
Sep 29, 2025 (AFP)
Rodriguez told foreign diplomats that Maduro had signed a decree giving himself "special powers" as head of state to act in matters of defense and security in t...
Ecuador armed forces kill fuel price hike protester: Indigenous group
Sep 28, 2025 (AFP)
Efrain Fuerez was "shot three times" and died Sunday at the hospital in Cotacachi, around 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Quito, according to the organizatio...
Iraq resumes Kurdish oil exports after two-year halt
Sep 27, 2025 (AFP)
Control over lucrative oil exports has been a major point of contention between Baghdad and Arbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region, with a key pipeline to T...
China may strengthen climate role amid US fossil fuel push
Sep 23, 2025 (AFP)
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has convened a mini climate summit on Wednesday during a week of high-level talks, where Beijing is expected t...
Bank fossil fuel financing twice that for alternatives: study
Sep 23, 2025 (AFP)
The study by Reclaim Finance and partners such as WWF, Urgewald and Rainforest Action Network, said "the biggest 65 banks are not on track when it comes to fina...
White House rejects talks offer from Venezuela's Maduro
Sep 23, 2025 (AFP)
The brush-off came as two Venezuelan opposition leaders backed a US naval build-up near the South American country, calling it critical for the restoration of d...
IEA feels the heat as Washington pushes pro-oil agenda
Sep 22, 2025 (AFP)
The United States, the world's biggest oil producer and a major contributor to the Paris-based IEA, is threatening to withdraw from the global energy authority ...
Venezuela confirms it sent letter to Trump calling for dialogue
Sep 22, 2025 (UPI)
"The letter was delivered Sept. 6 to a South American intermediary to be passed on to its recipient. ... In it is reflected Venezuela's irrefutable truth: We ar...
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