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Tue, Jun 19, 2012 10:11 AM by Karl Burkart
New report shows Brazil has an abundant array of available energy resources. So why is it choosing the costliest and most destructive source of all -- hydropower? A dispatch from Rio+20.
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Tue, Jun 19, 2012 7:16 AM by Johannes Myburgh, AFP
Impoverished Mozambique expects that within five years, natural gas will account for 13 percent of its economy.
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Sat, Jun 16, 2012 3:42 AM by Agence France Presse
After an earthquake and tsunami prompted a nuclear disaster in Japan, much of the Japanese public fears returning to nuclear power usage.
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Fri, Jun 15, 2012 12:36 PM by Agence France Presse
The proposed route for the Keystone XL pipeline comes into question as the U.S. government considers the environmental threats it poses.
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Fri, Jun 15, 2012 7:00 AM by Harumi Ozawa, AFP
Yoshihiko Noda is expected to defy public sentiment and order nuclear reactors back online for the first time since the Fukushima disaster.
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Wed, Jun 13, 2012 7:42 AM by Lara Sukhtian, AFP
Projects to harness the power of the region's year-round blazing sun have already been announced by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE.
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Tue, Jun 12, 2012 11:25 PM by Judi Rever, AFP
Proponents of increased U.S. oil and gas drilling highlight the substantial increases in energy security and job growth it would bring.
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Tue, Jun 12, 2012 11:04 AM by Russell McLendon
Global investment in clean energy surged 17 percent to a record $257 billion last year, according to two new reports by the U.N. Environment Program.
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Sat, Jun 09, 2012 3:29 AM by Jinty Jackson, AFP
In anticipation of a shift from charcoal stoves to ethanol-fired stoves, a multi-national consortium plans to generate carbon credits to sell to greenhouse gas emitters in Mozambique.
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Fri, Jun 08, 2012 6:29 AM by Agence France-Presse
Yoshihiko Noda said Japan could not do without atomic energy, but he stopped short of ordering a restart of nuclear reactors.
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Wed, Jun 06, 2012 3:51 PM by Agence France-Presse
A new study challenges long-standing myths that clean energy technology is too expensive to adopt.
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Tue, Jun 05, 2012 5:43 AM by Agence France-Presse
Increasing consumption could potentially curb growth in use of carbon-spewing coal.
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Fri, Jun 01, 2012 11:57 AM by Russell McLendon
The slang for hydraulic fracturing sounds dirty and disconcerting — and now a study finds it even curbs support for the controversial gas-drilling technique.
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Thu, May 31, 2012 5:55 AM by W.G. Dunlop and Salam Faraj, Agence France Presse
Iraq fails to cement its position as a leading energy supplier after selling only three of 12 potential energy exploration blocks.
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Wed, May 30, 2012 3:27 PM by Agence France-Presse
The Department of Commerce said it had reached a preliminary conclusion that Chinese producers and exporters of wind towers received subsidies.
