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Washington (AFP) May 10, 2024
The United States and China promised Friday to work together on reduction of methane, the second most abundant greenhouse gas, after talks between the climate envoys of the world's two largest emitters. Chinese climate envoy Liu Zhenmin and White House climate advisor John Podesta met for the first time since the departure of their predecessors, whose unusually close relationship helped brin

London (AFP) May 10, 2024
Two environmental activists in their 80s were arrested after glueing themselves to the case containing the historic Magna Carta document at the British Library in central London Friday, the Just Stop Oil group said. Anglican priest Sue Parfitt, 82, and retired teacher Judy Bruce, 85, held a sign saying "The government is breaking the law", the group said. Magna Carta is seen as a precur

Washington (AFP) May 10, 2024
The United States is planning to increase tariffs on Chinese clean energy goods, news reports said Friday, with levies on electric vehicles expected to roughly quadruple. The move, reported by the Wall Street Journal, comes at the end of a long-awaited review of tariffs that were imposed during a trade war between Washington and Beijing. Then-president Donald Trump imposed tariffs on som

Grunheide, Germany (AFP) May 10, 2024
German police on Friday drove back several groups of environmental activists who tried to enter Tesla's factory outside of Berlin, a spokesman said. The spokesman said there were injuries among protesters and police but could not provide figures. Activists have been protesting plans to expand the factory, which opened in 2022 following an arduous two-year approval and construction proces

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 11, 2024
Amid growing demands for sustainable energy solutions, scientists have developed a novel method to repurpose chicken fat, an abundant waste product, into valuable components for energy storage devices. This new approach, documented in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, involves converting chicken fat into carbon-based electrodes that can effectively store energy and power electronic devices s

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 11, 2024
As kimchi gains popularity worldwide, cabbage, a key ingredient, sees high wastage rates during its production and distribution, with over 30% discarded annually. This contributes significantly to environmental pollution and incurs substantial disposal costs. Addressing this issue, Hae Choon Chang, President of the World Institute of Kimchi, a research entity funded by the Ministry of Scie

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 11, 2024
GE Vernova's Nuclear Fuel business, Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF), has delivered high burnup fuel rods to the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for post-commercial operation analysis. The rods have completed three full cycles at a U.S. nuclear facility. "This shipment of these rods is another milestone in the drive to develop the next generation of even safer and

New York (AFP) May 10, 2024
The share price of nuclear energy start-up Oklo, chaired by OpenAI boss Sam Altman, fell sharply Friday on its first day of trading on Wall Street. At around 3:40 pm (1940GMT), the stock was down 53.9 percent to $8.40. Founded in 2013 by graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Oklo went public by merging with AltC Acquisition Corp, a listed company. The latter i

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 11, 2024
In a rapid response to public outcry and mounting pressure, California lawmakers have taken decisive action to amend Assembly Bill 1999 (AB 1999), aiming to cap the controversial Big Utility Tax. This legislative effort follows closely on the heels of the California Public Utilities Commission's (CPUC) decision to impose a $24/month Utility Tax starting in 2026, which would affect approximately

Washington (AFP) May 10, 2024
Most of Joe Biden's clean energy tax credits are now law and are unlikely to be reversed by Donald Trump if he wins November's presidential election, a senior administration official said Friday. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) - one of Biden's most significant policy achievements as president - contains tax credits, subsidies and grants worth hundreds of billions of dollars design

Washington (AFP) May 10, 2024
A huge solar storm has begun pummeling Earth, bringing possible disruptions to satellites and power grids - and stunning auroras - as it intensifies Friday evening. The first of several coronal mass ejections (CMEs) - large expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun - arrived in the early afternoon, US eastern time, the Space Weather Prediction Center of the National Oceanic a

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 11, 2024
Researchers from the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and Nagoya University have developed a method to convert iron-based amorphous alloys, commonly used in soft magnets, into efficient thermoelectric materials. This conversion is achieved through a brief, three-minute heat treatment, introducing a method to manipulate materials at the microstructural level for improved energy con