Tall Stacks
The waste gases that escape from factories or power plants running on fossil fuels typically contain a variety of pollutants, including carbon monoxide, particulates, nitrogen oxides, an...
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Washington (dpa) - Oil-producing countries have been urged by the
World Bank to stop wasting energy and polluting the environment by
burning off the natural gas pumped to th...
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China has overtaken the United States as the world's biggest
emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2), a Dutch research institution
announced Tuesday.
According to figures released by the Netherlan...
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Cuba has solved crippling energy shortages that plagued the island as recently as 2004 without sacrificing a long-term commitment to promoting environmentally friendly fuels, the head of the U.N. E...
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Abuja (dpa) - More expatriate workers are fleeing the Niger Delta
because of ceaseless abductions by militants in the region.
An Indian company, Indorama, which boug...
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Transportation
68. Today there are 600 million motor vehicles around the globe,
a figure which is projected to double by 2020. With this in mind, we
will
-- work to increase energy effi...
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Workers carried away the last charred bodies of victims from a fire that swept through a crowd of Nigerians stealing fuel from a ruptured gasoline pipeline, and the death toll reached 265, the Red ...
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(EDS: ADDING EXPERTS' COMMENTS, AT LAST 3 GRAFS)
China has overtaken the United States as the world's biggest
emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2), a Dutch research institution
announced Tuesday....
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LAGOS, Dec 22 (Reuters) - The main rebel group in Nigeria's
oil-producing southern delta, announcing a brief Christmas
ceasefire, pledged on Saturday not to attack oil facilities or
kidnap foreign...
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A gasoline pipeline ruptured by thieves exploded into a blazing inferno Tuesday as scavengers collected the fuel in a poor neighborhood, killing at least 260 people in the latest oil-industry disas...
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Young boys scamper along weed-entangled pipes, transforming an oil-pumping station marked "Not In Use" into a jungle gym in the heart of Nigeria's lawless oil region. Nearby wells rust under the pa...
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Tall Stacks
Turn off the gas flares, reduce pollution: World Bank
