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  Stanford CA (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 In February 2018, Donald Trump signed into law new tax credits that reward oil companies for capturing carbon dioxide and preventing it from entering the atmosphere - either by burying the gas underground or by pumping it into wells to boost production. These tax credits, which have bipartisan support, are encouraging for those who believe that trapping CO2 from the fossil fuel industry - though no substitute for deploying cleaner energy sources - could help combat runaway climate change while society r ... read more |
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How slick water and black shale in fracking combine to produce radioactive wasteHanover NH (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 September 18, 2018 - Radioactivity in fracking wastewater comes from the interaction between a chemical slurry and ancient shale during the hydraulic fracturing process, according to Dartmouth Colle ... more 
Trump blasts OPEC ahead of World Oil Outlook summitWashington (UPI) Sep 20, 2018 Crude oil prices moved in opposite directions Thursday morning as Brent was trending down and WTI trending up, both for different reasons. ... more 
China anti-graft agency probes head of energy administrationBeijing (AFP) Sept 21, 2018 The head of China's energy administration has been placed under investigation by the country's anti-corruption watchdog, the latest top official ensnared in the Communist Party's campaign against graft. ... more 
Cash, carbon, crude: How to make oil fields bury emissionsStanford, Canada (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 In February 2018, Donald Trump signed into law new tax credits that reward oil companies for capturing carbon dioxide and preventing it from entering the atmosphere - either by burying the gas under ... more |
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Venezuela's Maduro pays tribute to Mao, makes deals with ChinaBeijing (AFP) Sept 14, 2018 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro paid tribute to Mao Zedong at the late Chinese leader's mausoleum on Friday before overseeing energy and gold mining deals as he seeks Beijing's help to bolster his crisis-hit country's economy. ... more 
OAS chief says should not rule out Venezuela 'military intervention'Cucuta, Colombia (AFP) Sept 15, 2018 The head of the Organization of American States on Friday said "military intervention" to "overthrow" Nicolas Maduro's Venezuelan government must not be ruled out for the country mired in economic and humanitarian crisis. ... more 
Hope, scepticism as warring South Sudan leaders sign peace dealAddis Ababa (AFP) Sept 12, 2018 South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar signed a much-anticipated peace deal on Wednesday, the latest attempt to end five years of a vicious civil war that's torn the world's youngest nation apart. ... more 
Evacuations for Florence may squeeze gas supplies, cause price spikesWashington (UPI) Sep 13, 2018 The large-scale evacuations ahead of Hurricane Florence will cause local gasoline shortages and price spikes if tankers can't reach them fast enough, analysts say. But there are no concerns about refineries or other energy infrastructure like there was when Hurricane Harvey hit Houston last year. ... more 
US general urges Gulf Arab unity to counter IranKuwait City (AFP) Sept 12, 2018 US Central Command chief General Joseph Votel urged feuding Gulf Arab states on Wednesday to put aside their differences and unite against Iranian efforts to "destabilise" the region. ... more |
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Venezuela's Maduro eyes economic boost in China visitBeijing (AFP) Sept 13, 2018 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was expected to arrive in Beijing on Thursday to strike deals with his crisis-hit country's biggest creditor. ... more  |
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Iraq PM announces new Basra initiatives ahead of key voteBaghdad (AFP) Sept 13, 2018 Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday announced a new series of public works initiatives for the southern city of Basra, hit by a wave of deadly protests last week. ... more
Maduro looks to China to bolster Venezuela's collapsing economyCaracas (AFP) Sept 12, 2018 Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro departed Wednesday for China in search of agreements to bolster the oil-exporting country's collapsing economy. ... more 
Four questions on Basra and Iraq's political stakesBaghdad (AFP) Sept 12, 2018 Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi faces calls to quit after deadly protests in southern Basra crushed his fledgling, and vital, alliance with a popular Shiite cleric. ... more
Iran opens new consulate in Iraq's Basra after attackBasra, Iraq (AFP) Sept 11, 2018 Iran's ambassador to Iraq opened a new consulate for his country in the southern city of Basra on Tuesday, four days after its old mission building was torched by protesters. ... more 
Gulf, US commanders to hold talks in KuwaitKuwait City (AFP) Sept 9, 2018 Gulf Arab army chiefs, including Qatar's military commander, will meet with US Central Command officials for talks on defence cooperation this week, a Kuwaiti official said Sunday. ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 
Scientists have long sought ways to convert abundant CO2 to useful products such as chemicals and fuel. As early as in 1869, they were able to electrocatalytically convert CO2 to formic acid. Over the past two decades, the rise of CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere has significantly accelerated research in CO2 conversion using renewable energy resources, including solar, wind, and tidal. Because thes ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 
Water covers most of the globe, yet many regions still suffer from a lack of clean drinking water. If scientists could efficiently and sustainably turn seawater into clean water, a looming global water crisis might be averted.
Now, inspired by origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, researchers have devised a solar steam generator that approaches 100 percent efficiency for the producti ... more |
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 Freiburg, Germany (SPX) Sep 06, 2018 
Wind power is an important pillar in Germany's energy policy turnaround: According to the German government, the resource should cover 65 percent of German electricity needs by 2030, along with solar, hydropower and biomass. In a recent study, Dr. Christopher Jung and Dr. Dirk Schindler from the University of Freiburg show that it will be possible to cover 40 percent of the current electricity c ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 
Framatome signed a contract with Entergy to deliver and insert lead use fuel rods that utilize chromium-coated rods into Unit 1 at Arkansas Nuclear One (ANO). Chromium coating is a feature of the accident tolerant fuel design that Framatome has been developing for several years as a part of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (EATF) program.
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
Growing beaver populations have created a large number of new habitats along rivers and ponds. Beaver dams raise the water level, enabling the dissolution of the organic carbon from the soil. From beaver ponds, carbon is released to the atmosphere. Part of the carbon settles down on the bottom, ending up used by plants or transported downstream in the water.
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 Brussels (AFP) Sept 18, 2018 
The EU opened an in-depth probe into alleged collusion by major German carmakers over anti-pollution technology Tuesday, a fresh blow to the scandal-hit industry three years after the notorious "dieselgate."
Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said BMW, Daimler and VW are suspected of agreeing "not to compete against each other on the development and roll-out" of anti-pollution syste ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) Sept 19, 2018 
An Iraqi court on Wednesday sentenced to death on terror charges a prominent jihadist described as a deputy of Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, after he was captured in Turkey.
Ismail Alwan Salman al-Ithawi was hunted down, caught and extradited after a joint operation involving Turkish, Iraqi and US intelligence agencies, according to the Iraqi authorities.
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 Seoul (AFP) Sept 14, 2018 
South Korea launched its first ever missile-capable attack submarine on Friday, despite a recent diplomatic thaw with the nuclear-armed North.
The $700 million, 3,000-tonne Dosan Ahn Chang-ho submarine is capable of firing both cruise and ballistic missiles and the first of three planned diesel-electric boats to go into service in the next five years.
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 13, 2018  A Chinese Protestant pastor is vowing to keep preaching to his flock despite the closure of his prominent underground church in Beijing, defying the government's intensifying pressure on religious groups.
Pastor Jin Mingri had given sermons at the Zion Church, one of the biggest unofficial congregations in the country, for the past decade until local officials shut it down on Sunday.
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 Algiers (AFP) Sept 18, 2018 
Algeria's defence ministry on Tuesday announced its air force chief has been sacked, amid a broad shake-up of the country's military hierarchy.
Armed Forces Chief of Staff Ahmed Gaid Salah was to chair a ceremony on Tuesday at which major-general Hamid Boumaiza would assume the role of air force chief, the ministry said.
The event would see Boumaiza "replace major-general Abdelkader Loun ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 
On the cusp of our atmosphere live a thin group of seasonal electric blue clouds. Forming 50 miles above the poles in summer, these clouds are known as noctilucent clouds or polar mesospheric clouds - PMCs.
A recent NASA long-duration balloon mission observed these clouds over the course of five days at their home in the mesosphere. The resulting photos, which scientists have just begun to ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 20, 2018 
Chinese officials are shrugging off warnings that the trade spat with the United States could slash the country's economic growth, with state-run media saying Beijing can "outlast" the tariffs war.
Donald Trump this week announced another $200 billion worth of goods on which to foist levies for his latest volley in the stand-off between the world's top two economies, and threatened there cou ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Sept 19, 2018 
Poland might not yet be ready for a permanent US military base, the head of the US Army said Wednesday, the day after Polish President Andrzej Duda offered to host "Fort Trump."
Duda went to the White House on Tuesday to reiterate Poland's long-standing desire for a permanent US troop deployment to the eastern European country - a contentious move some worry would anger Russia and draw US t ... more |
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 The Hague (AFP) Sept 18, 2018 
Fed-up with a growing mountain of stinking disposable nappies, a Dutch firm Tuesday started building the country's first recycling plant to turn poo into profit.
Plastic from the nappies extracted by the facility in the central Dutch town of Weurt near Nijmegen will have a second life as household items like garden furniture or flower pots.
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 Humacao, Puerto Rico (AFP) Sept 19, 2018  Desperate and alone - and with the US government nowhere to be seen - many Puerto Ricans turned to each other for salvation as they faced the furies of Hurricane Maria one year ago.
In the dark weeks that followed they also discovered something precious: a sense of fellowship and belonging that today brightens places like Mariana, a neighborhood transformed by adversity in the storm-ravage ... more |
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