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August 22, 2025
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Greta Thunberg, activists block Oslo main street in oil protest



Oslo (AFP) Aug 21, 2025
Greta Thunberg and more than 100 more climate activists blocked Oslo's main avenue and a bank branch on Thursday to demand Norway shutter its oil industry, police and organisers said. The action came on the heels of the group's 36-hour protest blocking Norway's largest oil refinery on its southwestern coast. "There are more than 100 activists outside DNB's flagship bank on the main Karl Johan avenue," Oslo police operations leader Anders Aas told AFP just after 12:15 pm (1015 GMT), adding th ... read more

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Clean hydrogen's iridium problem? Solved in an afternoon
Evanston IL (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
For decades, researchers around the world have searched for alternatives to iridium, an extremely rare, incredibly expensive metal used in the production of clean hydrogen fuels. Now, a powerf ... more
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Prototype system transforms urine into solar powered fertilizer and clean water
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2025
A Stanford-led team has developed a prototype that converts urine into fertilizer while also generating electricity and improving sanitation. The system, detailed in Nature Water, recovers ammonia u ... more
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Greta Thunberg, activists block Norway oil refinery
Oslo (AFP) Aug 18, 2025
/> Some 200 climate activists including Greta Thunberg of Sweden blocked Norway's largest oil refinery on Monday in a protest demanding an end to the country's oil industry, organisers and police s ... more
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Paper: Decarbonize agriculture by expanding policies aimed at low-carbon biofuels
Champaign IL (SPX) Aug 15, 2025
A team of agricultural economists, environmental scientists and policy experts envisions a path toward a carbon-neutral agricultural future by expanding the reach of policies designed to promote low ... more
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Court halts TotalEnergies South African oil exploration
Johannesburg (AFP) Aug 14, 2025
/> A South African court has refused environmental authorisation for planned offshore drilling by French energy giant TotalEnergies near the foot of Africa, in a ruling seen by AFP Thursday. T ... more
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German gas drive fuels fears of climate backsliding
Frankfurt, Germany Aug 13, 2025
Germany's conservative-led government has launched a drive to rapidly build more gas-fired power plants, fuelling fears about climate policy backsliding and sparking unease even within its own ranks. ... more
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Mozambique insurgency grows at 'sensitive' time for TotalEnergies' return
Maputo (AFP) Aug 9, 2025
Jihadist insurgents in northern Mozambique have multiplied their attacks in the past weeks, causing mass displacements ahead of the possible resumption of construction on TotalEnergies' huge natural gas project in the region. ... more
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Oil industry presence surges at UN plastic talks: NGOs
Geneva (AFP) Aug 8, 2025
Environmental NGOs are raising concerns about the growing presence of petrochemical industry lobbyists at talks to forge a global treaty to combat plastic pollution. ... more

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U.S. increases bounty to $50M for Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 7, 2025
The United States on Thursday doubled its bounty for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to $50 million, ramping up pressure on the authoritarian leader that began during the first Trump administration. ... more
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Turkmenistan's methane-spewing 'Gateway to Hell' loses its anger
Darvaza, Turkmenistan (AFP) Aug 6, 2025
People go to the "Gateway to Hell" gas crater in the middle of the Turkmenistan desert expecting an angry cauldron but are now coming away unimpressed. ... more
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Putin decree allows Russia to increase greenhouse gas emissions
Moscow (AFP) Aug 6, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a decree that would allow Russia to increase its greenhouse gas emissions by a fifth by 2035 compared with 2021 levels. ... more
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Oil executives held in Albania over tax evasion case
Tirana, Albania (AFP) Aug 6, 2025
The Chinese chief executive of Albania's largest oil producer was refused bail on Wednesday, amid a tax evasion investigation involving several Bankers Petroleum executives, authorities said. ... more
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Sticky business: India's purchases of Russian oil
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 6, 2025
India is the second largest buyer of Russian oil, saving itself billions of dollars on discounted crude - a key source of revenue for Moscow's military offensive on Ukraine. ... more
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Shell net profit retreats on lower energy prices
London (AFP) July 31, 2025
British energy giant Shell on Thursday said its net profit slid 23 percent in the first six months of the year, hit by lower oil and gas prices. ... more
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New Zealand reverses ban on offshore oil and gas exploration
Wellington (AFP) July 31, 2025
New Zealand's government voted Thursday to open the country for new oil and gas exploration, reversing a ban put in place under former prime minister Jacinda Ardern. ... more
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Electron beam recycling turns heat resistant plastics into valuable gases
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 30, 2025
A team at Japan's National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) has developed a method to recycle the durable plastic polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) using electron beam (EB) irradiati ... more
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Norwegian cousins battle over oil, climate policy
Oslo (AFP) July 30, 2025
As teenagers in Norway, Andreas Bjelland Eriksen and his younger cousin Vebjorn Bjelland Berg survived a mass shooting together - a trauma that united them. ... more
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Fossil-fuel pledge in EU-Trump deal sparks climate fears
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) July 29, 2025
The EU is promising colossal new US fossil fuel purchases under its trade deal with President Donald Trump, raising concerns for the bloc's climate fight - should the mammoth pledges come true. ... more
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Electron beam method converts Teflon waste into reusable gases
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 25, 2025
Researchers at the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) have developed a method to convert polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), better known as Teflon, into gas using electron bea ... more
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Top court takes aim at fossil fuels in sweeping ruling
Paris (AFP) July 24, 2025
An historic climate ruling by the world's highest court could make it legally riskier for fossil fuel companies to do business and embolden lawsuits against oil and gas expansion, experts say. ... more
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US Treasury chief says China talks could cover Iran, Russia oil buys
Washington (AFP) July 21, 2025
The next round of US-China talks could include Chinese purchases of Russian and Iranian oil, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday, a move that would shift the focus of trade negotiations into national security issues. ... more
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U.N. report cites 'flagrant' violations by Russia and North Korea
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 17, 2025
Russian and North Korean officials violated U.N. resolutions regarding arms, troops and refined petroleum shipments throughout 2024 and beyond, a U.N. report says. ... more
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Baghdad and Arbil agree to resume Kurdish oil exports: government
Baghdad (AFP) July 17, 2025
The Iraqi government announced Thursday an agreement to resume crude exports from the autonomous Kurdistan region after a more than two-year halt and amid drone attacks on oil fields. ... more
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Drone hits oil field in Iraq's Kurdistan for second day
Arbil, Iraq (AFP) July 17, 2025
A drone loaded with explosives struck an oil field in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region on Thursday, Kurdish forces said - the second attack in two days on the Norwegian-operated site. ... more
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New drone attacks hit three oil fields in northern Iraq: Kurdish forces
Arbil, Iraq (AFP) July 16, 2025
Explosive-laden drones hit three oil fields in Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdistan region early Wednesday, Kurdish forces said, a day after a similar attack shut operations at a US-run field. ... more
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Drone attacks hit three north Iraq oil fields: Kurds
Arbil, Iraq (AFP) July 16, 2025
Explosive-laden drones hit three oil fields in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region on Wednesday, Kurdish authorities said, a day after a similar attack halted operations at a US-run field. ... more
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Drone attack shuts US-run oil field in Iraqi Kurdistan
Arbil, Iraq (AFP) July 15, 2025
A drone strike on Tuesday forced a US company to suspend operations at an oil field in Iraq's Kurdistan, the latest in a string of attacks targeting the autonomous region's energy facilities. ... more
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OPEC says no peak to oil demand before 2050
Paris (AFP) July 10, 2025
The OPEC oil cartel said Thursday that demand for crude will continue to expand through at least 2050, calling efforts to rapidly shift away from fossil fuels an unworkable fantasy. ... more
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US senator warns of fossil fuel coup, economic reckoning
Washington (AFP) July 9, 2025
One of the US Senate's leading climate advocates says President Donald Trump's administration no longer governs - it "occupies" the nation on behalf of Big Oil. ... more
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Pioneering membrane-free electrolysis to unlock industrial scale green hydrogen
Paris, France (SPX) Jul 08, 2025
A recent review in Nature Reviews Clean Technology outlines, for the first time, a scalable roadmap for decoupled water electrolysis (DWE) technologies aimed at producing green hydrogen at industria ... more
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OPEC+ to boost crude oil production in August
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 5, 2025
Eight OPEC+ nations on Saturday agreed to increase their crude oil production by 548,000 barrels per day starting in August. ... more
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