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  Washington (AFP) March 7, 2018 President Donald Trump's plans to allow offshore oil drilling along virtually the entire US coastline threaten millions of jobs and billions in economic output, according to a report published Wednesday. The report could buttress the arguments of local governments which oppose the proposed new drilling, fearful of losses to tourism, fishing and the potential for environmental disasters. To encourage domestic energy production, the Trump administration said in January it would undo restrictions p ... read more |
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Oil prices decline, stock market rises as trade war fears subsideWashington (UPI) Mar 8, 2018 U.S. crude oil prices were trading lower Thursday and stock index prices moved higher as possible tariff exemptions in Canada and Mexico eased trade war fears. ... more 
EU urges Germany to introduce air pollution tollFrankfurt Am Main (AFP) March 7, 2018 German cities should fight air pollution by charging drivers tolls according to their vehicle's emissions, rather than slapping general bans on older models, European Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc said Wednesday. ... more 
Gas prices rise nationwide after three weeks of decreasesWashington (UPI) Mar 6, 2018 Gasoline prices climbed last week in the United States after three weeks of decreases at the pump, according to an analysis. ... more
Oil prices stable as U.S. production stands at all-time highWashington (UPI) Mar 6, 2018 U.S. crude oil prices were stable Tuesday as production in the nation is at an all-time high. ... more |
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Oil prices follow stock indices lower after U.S. tariff move Washington (UPI) Mar 2, 2018 Crude oil prices lost ground in early Friday trading, following equities markets lower in response to a U.S. call for aluminum and steel tariffs. ... more 
Economic transition period for oil revenue is over, Norway saysWashington (UPI) Mar 2, 2018 The target rate of inflation in the Norwegian economy was lowered because a transition period of phasing in oil revenues is over, the government announced. ... more 
Total snaps up Marathon's assets in LibyaWashington (UPI) Mar 2, 2018 French energy company Total said Friday it spent $450 million to take on Marathon's holdings in Libya after the latter company announced its divestment. ... more 
Sanctions still under consideration for Venezuela, U.S. saysWashington (UPI) Mar 2, 2018 All options are on the table, including sanctions, when considering tools to coerce Venezuela into following constitutional lines, the U.S. government said. ... more 
Turkey arrests two Greek soldiers 'on espionage charges'Ankara (AFP) March 2, 2018 A Turkish court on Friday placed two Greek soldiers under arrest on espionage charges after they illegally crossed into Turkey, state media reported, in a move that risks a new flaring of tensions between Ankara and Athens. ... more |
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 British energy demand strains from winter Storm Emma wane 
Man-made earthquake risk reduced if fracking is 895m from faultsDurham UK (SPX) Mar 02, 2018 The risk of man-made earthquakes due to fracking is greatly reduced if high-pressure fluid injection used to crack underground rocks is 895m away from faults in the Earth's crust, according to new r ... more  |
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New funding surfaces for offshore GambiaWashington (UPI) Feb 26, 2018 Up to $45 million in costs to drill a well off the Gambian coast is covered through a deal with Malaysian oil company PETRONAS, Australia's FAR Ltd. said. ... more 
Statoil shows its commitment to British offshore explorationWashington (UPI) Mar 1, 2018 Three new wells are planned as part of a multi-million-dollar drilling campaign that includes testing a new oil discovery made in British waters, Statoil said. ... more 
Winter Storm Emma strains British gas suppliesWashington (UPI) Mar 1, 2018 Severe weather striking the United Kingdom and parts of Europe means there's a deficit of natural gas on the market, a British utility said Thursday. ... more
Spring gas prices could be the highest in two yearsWashington (UPI) Mar 1, 2018 On average, motorists in the United States may be paying the highest price for gasoline since the summer of 2015, motor club AAA reported Thursday. ... more 
OMV sells off its Pakistan upstream unitWashington (UPI) Mar 1, 2018 Austrian energy company OMV said it was leaving the Pakistani exploration and production sector behind with a $191 million divestment. ... more |
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 Singapore (AFP) March 1, 2018 
Malaysia will press the European Union not to ban palm oil in biofuels during talks this week, the country's trade minister said Thursday, warning the move would hit the rural poor.
The European Parliament earlier this year voted in favour of a draft law on renewable energy that calls for the use of palm oil in biofuels to be banned from 2021, amid mounting worries about its impact on the en ... more |
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 Brooklyn MY (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Solar cells have great potential as a source of clean electrical energy, but so far they have not been cheap, light, and flexible enough for widespread use. Now a team of researchers led by Tandon Associate Professor Andre D. Taylor of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department has found an innovative and promising way to improve solar cells and make their use in many applications more ... more |
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 Bristol UK (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Over 400 individuals raise an impressive 2.8m pounds in just two weeks to refinance the Mean Moor community wind farm in Cumbria. It's thought to be the first wind farm in the country to be transferred to community ownership from a commercial developer.
Thanks to support from Energy4All, and financing from ethical investment company, Thrive Renewables, three renewable Energy Co-operatives ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Framatome, Bureau Veritas and Doosan Babcock signed an Agreement creating EQUALLE, an alliance targeted at supporting the challenge of nuclear Equipment Qualification for the benefit of new build projects and in-service reactors in the United Kingdom. The qualification of nuclear safety equipment ensures its operability in normal and accidental conditions in compliance with the safety case.
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Mar 08, 2018 
The East Asian summer monsoon and desertification in Eurasia is driven by fluctuating Northern Hemisphere ice volume and global sea level during the Ice Age, as shown in a study published in Nature Communications. Today, two thirds of the world's population is dependent on agriculture sustained by rains of the East Asian summer monsoon, and future climate change in this region can therefore have ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) March 5, 2018 
Top Japanese carmakers said on Monday they were teaming up to nearly double the amount of hydrogen stations in Japan, as the car-mad country seeks to head off competition from China and Germany.
Toyota, Nissan and Honda formed a joint venture with major gas and energy companies, including French industrial gases company Air Liquide, to build 80 new hydrogen stations in the next four years, t ... more |
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 Mosul, Iraq (AFP) March 8, 2018 
Nearly 300 women ran through the streets of Iraq's Mosul on Thursday, in a demonstration of their freedoms eight months after the city was retaken from the Islamic State group.
Mosul's first ever women's marathon was held to coincide with International Women's Day.
The 900-metre run was not the length of a full marathon, but organiser Fatima Khalaf said it marked a real change for women ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) March 8, 2018 
South Korea will investigate allegations that ousted president Park Geun-hye planned to send military troops to quash the candle-lit protests that culminated in her impeachment last year, the defence ministry said Thursday.
Activist group the Centre for Military Human Rights Korea (CMHRK), citing multiple leaks, said top military leaders had studied plans to crack down on demonstrators calli ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 9, 2018  Public pressure, heated debate and a nail-biting vote: Don't expect any of that when Chinese legislators cast historic ballots on lifting presidential term limits on Sunday.
The rubber-stamp National People's Congress has never voted against anything the Communist Party has imposed on the legislature in its half-century of existence.
President Xi Jinping is thus all but certain to secure ... more |
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 Kinshasa (AFP) March 7, 2018  Eighteen employees of a gorilla sanctuary in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been abducted by a militia group, sources said on Wednesday.
An official with an NGO said the abduction took place on Monday in the area of Nzovu, which lies in the huge Kahuzi-Biega National Park, and an armed group called the Mai-Mai Raia Mutomboki was responsible.
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 7, 2018 
The U.S. military sent F-35B Lightning II aircraft this week to the East China Sea for the fighter's first operational deployment with a Marine Expeditionary Unit.
A detachment of the aircraft deployed with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit landed Monday on the USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship, according to the U.S. Marines. The expeditionary unit will patrol the Indo-Pacific regio ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 8, 2018 
President Donald Trump's team played down talk of a trade war Wednesday as it fought to limit a financial market sell-off, promising a quick decision on contentious tariffs that prompted a popular economic advisor to the president to quit.
Administration big guns Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin rushed to the cameras to calm market jitters over proposed ste ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 8, 2018 
US government agencies are not adequately coordinating efforts to counter the cyber threat from Russia, even as Moscow conducts a "campaign of destabilization," the commander of NATO forces in Europe warned Thursday.
US General Curtis Scaparrotti told lawmakers that Russia is working to break up the NATO alliance, partly through its online operations to spread false information.
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 Sydney (AFP) March 9, 2018 
They might be at the bottom of the food chain, but krill could prove to be a secret weapon in the fight against the growing threat of plastic pollution in the world's oceans.
New research Friday showed the tiny zooplankton are capable of digesting microplastics - under five millimetres (0.2 inches) - before excreting them back into the environment in an even smaller form.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 08, 2018 
The same satellites that identify severe weather can help save you from it. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) constellation monitors Earth's environment, helping meteorologists observe and predict the weather. GOES observations have tracked thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes and flash floods. They've even pro ... more |
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