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Analysis: Saudi oil booms in empty desert Shaybah, Saudi Arabia (UPI) Nov 15, 2007 
If you're counting heads, Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter is aptly titled. But barrel for barrel, there's more oil below the red sand dunes of Shaybah than in all of Mexico or Canada -- the two biggest oil suppliers to the United States -- or each of the four smallest members of OPEC.
Home to the largest oil reserves on Earth, Saudi Arabia is upgrading the Shaybah oil production facility i ... read more
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Indo-US nuclear pact not out of woods: analysts
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 18, 2007A landmark pact with the United States aimed at bringing India into the global nuclear marketplace has won a reprieve, but the deal is not out of the woods yet, analysts say. In a major turnaround, the government's communists allies said late last week they would allow India to pursue crucial talks with a UN nuclear watchdog body as part of steps to implement the accord. Until then, they had ... more Kuwait, UAE, Qatar pledge 450 mln dlrs to climate fund 
Riyadh (AFP) Nov 18, 2007Leading global oil producers Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar pledged 150 million dollars each on Sunday to a new fund to tackle global warming. The creation of the fund, which is now worth 750 million dollars, was announced by Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on Saturday at the opening of the OPEC summit in Riyadh. "Kuwait announces it is donating 150 million dollars to support th ... more Hydrogen: the wave of the future, but how far down the road 
Washington (AFP) Nov 17, 2007The United States hopes to fill American roads with hydrogen-powered cars in two decades, but the clean fuel must be cheap and practical to make before it can replace oil, US experts say. President George W. Bush unveiled a 1.2-billion-dollar initiative in 2003 to reverse US dependence on foreign oil and make hydrogen, which emits zero pollution, the fuel that drives the US economy. "Tha ... more Uranium sows discord between Niger and France 
Niamey (AFP) Nov 18, 2007Poor and restive Niger finds itself sitting on a surprising treasure trove -- uranium. The west African state on the edge of the Sahara is the world's third largest producer of an element whose price has soared. And the stakes are particularly high for former colonial power France: three-quarters of the nuclear-powered electricity produced by the Electricite de France uses uranium imported f ... more Analysis: Azeri-Kazakh energy cooperation 
Washington (UPI) Nov 16, 2007 In a small but significant move, the Azeri government is reaching out to its Caspian neighbors Kazakhstan and Russia as the ongoing development there produces a financial windfall for all. The State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan is beginning to export its services to Kazakhstan's oil and gas sector by conducting onshore surveys, while Baku is also gingerly allowing Russian investment in some of ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Nov 15, 2007China is pursuing an aggressive spying program to acquire critical American know how for beefing up its military and industrial might, posing the biggest threat to US technology, a US Congress-appointed commission warned Thursday. "Chinese espionage in the United States, which now comprises the single greatest threat to US technology, is straining the US counterintelligence establishment," t ... more Primary Rain Forest Is Irreplaceable 
East Anglia, UK (SPX) Nov 16, 2007As world leaders prepare to discuss conservation-friendly carbon credits in Bali and a regional initiative threatens a new wave of deforestation in the South American tropics, new research from the University of East Anglia and Brazil's Goeldi Museum highlights once again the irreplaceable importance of primary rain forest. Working in the north-eastern Brazilian Amazon the international te ... more Satellite Shows Regional Variation In Warming From Sun During Solar Cycle 
Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 16, 2007A NASA satellite designed, built and controlled by the University of Colorado at Boulder is expected to help scientists resolve wide-ranging predictions about the coming solar cycle peak in 2012 and its influence on Earth's warming climate, according to the chief scientist on the project. Senior Research Associate Tom Woods of CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics said ... more Forests Damaged By Hurricane Katrina Become Major Carbon Source 
New Orleans LA (SPX) Nov 16, 2007With the help of NASA satellite data, a research team has estimated that Hurricane Katrina killed or severely damaged 320 million large trees in Gulf Coast forests, which weakened the role the forests play in storing carbon from the atmosphere. The damage has led to these forests releasing large quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The August 2005 hurricane affected five milli ... more |
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Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Nov 16, 2007Only about 25% of Europe's medium sized household appliances and 40% of larger appliances are collected for salvage and recycling, leaving "substantial room for improvement," according to a study for the European Commission by a United Nations University-led consortium. Small appliances, with a few exceptions, are close to zero percent collection. "The study suggests possible long-term col ... more First-Ever State Of The Carbon Cycle Report Finds Troubling Imbalance 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 16, 2007The first "State of the Carbon Cycle Report" for North America, released online this week by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, finds the continent's carbon budget increasingly overwhelmed by human-caused emissions. North American sources release nearly 2 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year, mostly as carbon dioxide. Carbon "sinks" such as growing forests may remove up to ... more Go With The Flow 
Dresden, Germany (SPX) Nov 16, 2007Traffic flows account for as much as one-third of global energy consumption. But unconventional changes in managing traffic flow could significantly reduce such waste and lower harmful CO2 emissions, says Dirk Helbing. Dr. Helbing, Professor of Sociology at the ETH Zurich Chair of Sociology, a specialist in modelling and simulation, supports his claim with a recent study called 'Efficient Self-C ... more China to surpass US in CO2 utility emissions: study 
Washington (AFP) Nov 15, 2007Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by Chinese power plants are expected to surpass US utilities' emissions of the main greenhouse gas by 2017, according to the Center for Global Development. The US think tank, which works to reduce global poverty, said in a report released Wednesday that China's growing economic might is also boosting the country's CO2 emissions. "If we look ahead over the n ... more
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