Federal regulators and the state of Maine have signed an agreement to coordinate on the development of projects that generate power from the ebb and flow of the tides, marking the first such agreement on the technology for the U.S. East Coast.
We travelers are blessed with endless sources of literary inspiration for our myriad wanderings. Certain characters jump off the page and seem to almost lead us along by hand-pausing now and again to whisper sage advice in our ears.
Canada's Verenex Energy Inc posted a narrower quarterly loss, and said it continued to seek consent from Libyan authorities for the sale of the company.
Kazakh and Chinese state oil firms' joint $3.3 billion acquisition of a Kazakh private upstream company has been delayed, Kazakhstan said on Wednesday without providing the timeframe or the reason for the delay.
A Sudanese woman facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public made her first appearance in a court packed with supporters Wednesday, in what her lawyer described as a test case in Sudan's decency laws.
A Canadian astronaut aboard the International Space Station said on Sunday it looks like Earth's ice caps have melted a bit since he was last in orbit 12 years ago.
We're well into the dog days of summer, and soaring temperatures and long hours of daylight also means we're right in the middle of peak travel season in France.
Today marks the 40th anniversary of when Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon. Today to mark the anniversary of Apollo 11 Google earth reached out for the moon allowing users to have a close up look at the moon.
The Pacific island state of Tuvalu set a goal Sunday of a 100 percent shift to renewable energy by 2020, hoping to set an example to industrialized nations to cut greenhouse gases it blames for rising sea levels.
Two retired Turkish generals went on trial on Monday in a group of 56 people accused of planning a coup in a case that highlights a power struggle over Islam's role in the European Union candidate country.
Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS), South Korea's top automaker, will invest 130 million euros ($183.4 million) in its Czech unit over the next two years, a spokesman said on Friday.
Danish soldiers in Afghanistan have been told to be more cautious after some were found to have discussed operations on the social networking website Facebook, Denmark's armed forces said Friday.
Tanzanian police recovered a piece of aircraft wreckage from the Yemeni Airbus that plunged into the sea off the Indian Ocean island of Comoros last week, a Reuters witness said Wednesday.
Global investment in clean energy and climate-friendly technologies leapt in the last three months but full-year levels won't recover until 2010 or 2011, analysts said on Wednesday.
The King of Pop Michael Jackson once wished his funeral to be greatest show on earth.
Bangladesh's High Court has ordered the closure of all tanneries and factories across the country if they fail to install effluent treatment plants by 2010 to halt massive pollution of the environment.
Russia hopes U.S. President Barack Obama will not pursue his predecessor's plan to deploy weapons in space but Moscow is ready to respond appropriately to any such moves, a senior Russian general said on Wednesday.
Spain had 614,000 new homes sitting unsold at the end of 2008 -- lower than most analysts' estimates -- according to the first major survey of Europe's most over-stocked home market.
The U.S. energy bill may not pass until next year, which could also delay an agreement to extend the Kyoto Protocol on cutting global greenhouse gas emissions until 2010, experts said on Thursday.
The United States should pass a comprehensive energy plan to ensure the number of jobs in environmental fields, such as renewable energy and cutting air pollution, will keep rising as they did in the decade to 2007, a Pew report said on Wednesday.
North Korean refugees who fled to China recently faced forced marriage and deportation, according to reports regarding the imprisonment of two American journalists who worked on a subject of 'the plight of North Korean women who flee to China'.
Scientists asked people around the world on Monday to help compile an Internet-based observatory of life on earth as a guide to everything from the impact of climate change on wildlife to pests that can damage crops.
