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Iran Says Will Cooperate with OPEC to Stabilize the Oil Market: IRNA
Iran’s oil minister said today that Tehran will cooperate with Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to stabilize the world market, but expects others to respect its rights, the ministry’s news agency SHANA quoted him as saying. Asked about…
Duke Energy Receives new 30-year Operating License for Keowee-Toxaway Hydroelectric Project
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued a new 30-year operating license for Duke Energy’s Keowee-Toxaway Hydroelectric Project, which will allow the company to continue operating the Jocassee Pumped Storage Hydro Station, Keowee Hydro Station and associated lakes. “The…
Radiography of Drought Periods in Spain from the last 318 years
The Mediterranean Basin has been witness to increased droughts for at least five decades, but has this always been the case? A research team has been successful in reconstructing, for the first time, the droughts from 1694 to 2012 based…
Clean air takes centre stage at Sarajevo Film Festival
Second annual Enviro Day sees the UN Environment Programme and Sarajevo Film Festival join forces to raise awareness of the importance of clean air in Bosnia and Herzegovina – home to some of Europe’s most polluted cities. Poor air quality…
Czech Organic Waste Fed Biogas Subsidies Approved by EU Commission
The Czech Republic’s plans to provide financial support for biogas installations which use at organic waste feedstocks, have been approved by the European Commission as being in-line with EU state aid rules. The decision that means that anaerobic digestion plants…
What can we learn from electric-car owners in Norway (more than 100K of them)?
Thanks to a combination of government incentives and public enthusiasm, electric cars make up a higher portion of new-car sales in Norway than in any other country. As of May, there were more than 105,000 plug-in electric cars registered in…
Land and sea warmest in 2015: ‘State of the Climate’ report
Last year was the warmest year on record for land and sea, partly because seasonal El Nino climate patterns prevailed year-round, and melting ice pushed sea levels to the highest ever, a study based on the work of more than…