The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will fund a $2.5 million (approximately Rs 12 crore) project for doing a study on the feasibility of introducing the Integrated Gas

A leaking oil products pipeline caught fire near Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos on Thursday, killing at least 30 people, witness

A leaked report in London on Thursday warned that two nuclear plants designed to succeed reactors at Chernobyl in Ukraine and which need major Western funding are in a "hazardous" condition.The

The Central Elections Commission on Wednesday dealt a blow to environmentalists' hopes of blocking the import of spent nuclear fuel into the country, turning down the 2.5 million signatures they

The Scottish Executive has announced its commitment to producing 18% of energy from renewables by 2010, and is urging businesses to adopt energy saving initiatives to combat global

Enron, the Texas-based energy and communications company, is developing plans for a 2,000MW power station in northern Japan, the first significant investment by an overseas company since Japan

The US Government has said that a reactor on the nation's most contaminated nuclear site should remain permanently shut down.The Department of Energy (DoE) said that the Hanford test reactor in

A leaked Austrian government study describes the two reactors, built to replace Chernobyl and supply the Ukraine with power, are "particularly hazardous". Greenpeace, who released the Vienna

Iceland intends to be the first country to convert its energy economy to hydrogen power, and expects to gain complete freedom from dependence on oil or coal by 2030, reports environmental thinktank

A broad coalition of Tibet, human rights and environmental groups turned up the heat on British oil giant BP Amoco on Friday over its investment in a Chinese oil firm building a pipeline on