Leadership of the global wind market is about to change hands. The United States — the birthplace of the modern wind industry — has held the top spot in new installations since 2005, growing at 50 percent a year and

Perhaps the most interesting Iranian venture is a supposed gold mine not far from Angel Falls, in a remote area known as the Roraima Basin. The basin straddles Venezuela's border with neighboring Guyana, where a Canadian company, U308, thinks it

Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News examines how mining rare earth minerals -- considered to be an obscure yet profitable industry, is causing a major environmental dilemma in China. LINDSEY HILSUM: It doesn't look very green. Rare earth processing in

I think that the market share-price-lifting "crisis" that has been caused by the promulgation of mostly hearsay evidence that China, the present monopoly producer, is (further) restricting exports of the rare earths and may even halt the export entirely of

KUWAIT -- Gulf Arab countries endorsed a monetary union agreement on Tuesday despite the absence of major player the United Arab Emirates and fellow oil producer Oman and left options open for pegging their future single currency.Rulers from the world's

The harsh reality is that, whether one chooses an accelerated energy transition to Alternative Energy either because of climate change, or peak oil, it will mean that economies and countries will have to make a discretionary choice now, in order

NEW YORK/DUBAI, Dec. 14 (Reuters) - Kuwait, the world's No. 4 oil exporter, will switch the basis on which it prices oil cargoes bound for the United States to the Argus Sour Crude Index (ASCI), following a similar move by

One of the most frequently ignored energy issues is the time required to bring forth a major new fuel to the world's energy supply. Until the mid-19th century, burning wood powered the world. Then coal gradually surpassed wood into the

Bloomberg) -- Tropical Cyclone Laurence, Australia’s first of the season that’s triggered evacuations of offshore oil and gas rigs, intensified as it moved along the northwestern coast with gusts of up to 260 kilometers (162 miles) per hour.The storm, off

Shale gas is one of the biggest new things to come along in the energy space for some time. But Natural Gas drilling costs and low gas prices make this a challenging environment for Gas producers.Yesterday's big news in the

While the coverage of the global climate summit in Copenhagen has been dominated by protests, walkouts and accusations of fraud, a key Australian Kyoto negotiator says he is confident a deal will be reached by the end of the week.Former

In Laura Nichols' Maplewood, N.J., home, Poochie the dachshund is a hot commodity.Nichols and her four teenage children vie for the use of the 30-pound dog as an overnight leg warmer to stave off the 50-degree chill in their home.

Standard & Poor’s, the rating agency, on Monday downgraded Mexico on fiscal concerns stemming from the country’s falling oil output and anaemic growth prospects. S&P’s move is the second such blow to the centre-right administration of President Felipe Caldern in

I've heard the demand statistics before.In fact, I've had readers continually argue that there are fewer cars on the road nowadays, pointing toward rising inventories of motor gasoline.

Like all major economies, China is preparing for its energy future to accommodate rapid growth and the movement of more and more Chinese to cities. The foundation of the nation's electricity generation plan is coal, but with loud calls coming

Sales of plug-in cars, touted by the Obama administration and automakers as a way to curb oil use and greenhouse gases, may be held back for decades by battery costs, a study for the U.S. government found. Rechargeable autos in

China’s completion of an historic natural gas pipeline with Kazakhstan bypassing Russia this week tightens the Asian behemoth’s grip on energy resources needed to fuel a burgeoning economy, a desire also forcing it on a quest for oil and gas

From his mud brick home on the edge of the Garden of Eden, Awda Khasaf has twice seen his country’s lifeblood seep away. The waters that once spread from his doorstep across a 20% slab of Iraq known as the

For a few days, I have been reading several key articles dealing with China, but today a Washington Post article titled, U.S. firms lag in bids for Iraqi oil was the icing on the cake. In Twittering this article, I

Climategate" has put scientists on trial in the court of public opinion. If you believe climate sceptics, a huge body of evidence involving the work of tens of thousands of scientists over more than a century should be thrown out