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![]() Buenos Aires (UPI) Nov 29, 2010 Argentina secured a wider Latin American agreement to blockade the British-ruled Falkland Islands as part of its campaign to advance its claim of sovereignty over the South Atlantic territory. Argentina invaded the islands in 1982 but was repulsed by Britain in a 74-day conflict that caused more than 1,000 deaths among combatants and civilians. Despite an official surrender Argentina revived its claim the islands, which it calls Las Malvinas, were vestiges of British colonialism. To purs ... read more |
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![]() What Is EU's Strategy For Securing Energy Supply For The Future 20-20-20. The European Union's energy and climate policies have revolved around these figures for years. By the year 2020, 20 percent of our energy will come from renewable sources, reducing greenho ... more | .. |
![]() Vestas Selects Broadwind Towers For Glacier Hills Wind Project Broadwind Energy has announced that its Tower Tech Systems subsidiary was selected as the supplier of wind towers for the Glacier Hills Wind Park project. The Glacier Hills Wind Park is locate ... more | .. |
![]() Biofuels Digest Readers Rank Strongest Drivers For Biofuel Industry In 2011 The U.S. military's interest in secure domestic sources of renewable biofuels and biofuels producers' search for commercial value streams in renewable chemicals and biobased products will be the top ... more | .. |
![]() Lufthansa First Airline To Use Biofuel On Commercial Flights At a joint press conference, Lufthansa Chairman and CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber, with Peter Hinze, Parliamentary State Secretary and Government Aerospace Coordinator, and Professor Dr. Johann-Dietrich Wo ... more |
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![]() Verenium Announces Collaboration With Edible Oil Leader Desmet Ballestra Verenium has announced an agreement with Desmet Ballestra Group to jointly market the Purifine enzymatic degumming process, which combines Verenium's Purifine PLC enzyme and Desmet Ballestra's engin ... more | .. |
![]() Brazil Invests In Scania Ethanol Buses Sao Paulo, Brazil - with its many millions of inhabitants - is taking another step towards sustainable development. The city's mayor, Gilberto Kassab, announced yesterday (25 November) that Scania e ... more | .. |
![]() UNICA Takes Brazilian Renewable Energy Success To COP-16 The Brazilian experience spanning nearly four decades with large-scale production and use of sugarcane ethanol will be presented in a variety of formats by the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Associati ... more | .. |
![]() Geothermal Energy Association Weaves The Geothermal Web The Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), the trade association for the support and expansion of geothermal energy, has launched the Geothermal Web, a new program that features companies and individu ... more |
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![]() Solis Partners Awarded Solar Contract For New Vertical Screen HQ Solis Partners has announced that it has been awarded a turnkey contract for a 164-kilowatt rooftop solar system for the new Vertical Screen world headquarters building. The Warminster, Pa. fa ... more | .. |
![]() Funding To Help Solve Solar Energy Puzzle CSIRO has welcomed the award of a $5.65 million grant from the Australian Solar Institute towards three major solar research projects worth a total of $16 million. The funding will be used to ... more | .. |
![]() Fast Food Goes Green The Taco Bell restaurant in Albany, CA is the first commercial establishment in the state of California to receive a PG and E rebate check for installing a solar hot water system under the newly ins ... more | .. |
![]() French, British, Spanish groups announce nuclear unit Energy groups GDF Suez of France, SSE of Scotland and Iberdrola of Spain announced the formation Monday of a joint nuclear power unit, NuGeneration Limited, based in Britain. ... more |
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![]() Walker's World: Can the euro survive? With the euro reeling and hapless smaller countries waiting to see whether Germany will continue to bail them out - and at what price - there could hardly be a better time to publish a book with the title "Europe's Decline and Fall." ... more | .. |
![]() Gene Find Could Lead To Better Biofuel Production Purdue University scientists have found the last undiscovered gene responsible for the production of the amino acid phenylalanine, a discovery that could lead to processes to control the amino acid ... more | .. |
![]() Minneapolis Convention Center Solar Array Completed Ahead Of Schedule The last of the 2,613 solar panels at the Minneapolis Convention Center are installed, and the system is fully running, ahead of schedule. The Minneapolis Convention Center's solar array is co ... more | .. |
![]() Chicago Secures Solar Power International For 2013 Chicago has announced that it secured Solar Power International, the largest business-to-business solar energy conference and expo in North America, for 2013 at McCormick Place. This marks a critica ... more |
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![]() Copenhagen plans super highways ... for bikes Copenhagen, one of the world's most bicycle-friendly cities, has begun turning its extensive network of cycle paths into bike highways in an effort to push more commuters to leave their cars at home. ... more | .. |
![]() Africa lashes Europe on trade at summit eve Africa's leaders, frustrated after almost a decade of failed efforts to seal trade deals with Europe, are heading into a summit with the European Union next week ready to do battle, or walk out. ... more | .. |
![]() Developing Countries Can Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions And Help The Poor In the developing world, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is often seen as being in conflict with alleviating poverty, since improving the standard of living is usually associated with increased en ... more | .. |
![]() A High-Yield Biomass Alternative To Petroleum For Industrial Chemicals A team of University of Massachusetts Amherst chemical engineers report in Science that they have developed a way to produce high-volume chemical feedstocks including benzene, toluene, xylenes and o ... more |
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![]() BP sells stake in Pan American Energy to Bridas BP said Sunday it has agreed to sell its 60 percent stake in Pan American Energy to Argentina-based oil and gas firm Bridas Corporation, as part of asset sales to pay for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. ... more | .. |
![]() India nuclear plant with French reactors gets green go-ahead India on Sunday gave environmental clearance for a nuclear power plant to be built in collaboration with French firm Areva, days ahead of President Nicolas Sarkozy's scheduled visit to New Delhi. ... more | .. |
![]() Lufthansa wants to test biofuels on German flights Europe's leading airline, Lufthansa, said Monday that it will offer regular service between Frankfurt and Hamburg in April with a plane that can use biofuel in addition to jet fuel. ... more | .. |
![]() US: China rise a 'Sputnik moment' for clean energy A senior US official called China's growing innovation a "Sputnik moment" that should spur the United States to ramp up investment in clean energy, despite a shift in Washington on climate change. ... more |
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