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PORT ARTHUR, Texas – The Coast Guard says nearly half the oil that spilled at a major Texas port during a collision between a tanker and a towing vessel has evaporated, dispersed or been recovered from the water.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Casey Ranel said Monday about 175,000 gallons of oil had been evaporated or dispersed. [...]
LONDON (AFP) – Oil prices rose on Monday on bargain hunting following a slump last week against a background of weak global demand for energy and concerns about the strength of the wider economy.
New York’s main futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in March, climbed 13 cents to 74.67 dollars a barrel.
Brent North Sea [...]
MOSCOW (AFP) – A leak from Russia’s new Siberian oil pipeline shows the potentially damaging consequences the project could have for the endangered Siberian tiger, an environmental campaign group warned on Friday.
Around 300 cubic metres (10,600 cubic feet) of oil leaked from the pipeline in eastern Siberia, Igor Dyomin, spokesman for Russian oil pipeline monopoly [...]
Rovers and deep space probes can forget about quickly posting cool high-definition videos to YouTube, given the painfully slow data transfer rates for most of today’s space missions.
But NASA wants to change that by fusing together three aged space communication networks into a much faster, more efficient data network worthy of 21st century missions to [...]
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia – The United Nations warned Monday that extreme winter weather that has killed more than 1 million livestock in Mongolia is likely to harm the country’s food supply and worsen poverty.
Meanwhile, a blizzard and brutal temperatures in neighboring China’s northwestern Xinjiang region has claimed 13 lives, state media reported Monday. The official [...]
GUANGZHOU, China – About 100 villagers on Monday protested the construction of a garbage incinerator in southern China, alleging several residents have already become sick from pollution from another trash-burning facility in the area.
Waste disposal is becoming a contentious issue as crowded China tries to find new places to dump garbage. Citizens have become more [...]