BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Amid worries over Argentina's agricultural sales abroad, Argentine fisheries have been hit by falling exports and prospects of ever decreasing yields because of decline in marine life in the country's waters, industry scientists said.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The preliminary deals signed by Angola's state oil company, Sonangol, Wednesday to develop two small fields in the most dangerous part of Iraq constituted a major breakthrough for Baghdad's high-risk drive to attract international oil companies to help it restore its flagging fortunes and transform the global energy market.
BEIJING, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- With the world's highest level of greenhouse gas emissions and the largest market in the world by floor space, building "green" is becoming the architectural trend in China.
SHADEGAN, Iran, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Iranian emergency responders are struggling to protect a massive wetland from fires and contamination from an oil well that exploded early this week.
MOSCOW, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Ukraine will raise the rate it charges for the transit of Russian natural gas to Europe by more than 58 percent in 2010, Russian gas monopoly Gazprom said.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A court in the Netherlands said it would hear a case against supermajor Royal Dutch Shell brought by Nigerian farmers complaining of environmental damage.
MOSCOW, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The number of oil spills from pipelines operated by Russian-Anglo venture TNK-BP in 2009 dropped 70 percent compared with 2005 levels, the company said.
ASTANA, Kazakhstan, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The government of Kazakhstan announced it became the largest uranium miner in the world amid nuclear trading concerns with Iran.
NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- World leaders embrace the idea that global climate change requires attention but differ on the best way forward, the U.N. secretary-general said in New York.
TEHRAN, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Ankara is considering investing at least $3.5 billion to help Iran develop its giant South Pars offshore gas field, the Iranian oil minister said in Tehran.
PRUDHOE BAY, Alaska, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A spill in Alaska's North Slope region during the inspection of a production site operated by BP-Alaska is worse than expected, environmental regulators said.
OTTAWA, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A seven-member federal panel in Canada backed a long-awaited natural gas pipeline from the western arctic through the Mackenzie River valley.
MOSCOW, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Russian energy giant Gazprom will charge Belarus 12 percent more for natural gas starting in the first quarter of 2010, executives in Moscow said.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A Chinese admiral's proposal to build a naval base in the Gulf of Aden, ostensibly to supports Beijing's anti-piracy flotilla off Somalia, has alarm bells ringing in the region.
RUGBY, N.D., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Oregon energy group Iberdrola Renewables announced it has completed the construction of a $300 million wind farm in North Dakota.
STORD, Norway, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- French energy giant GDF Suez and Norway's Statoil teamed up to develop an oil and gas platform for the Gjoa field in the Norwegian waters of the North Sea.
TEHRAN, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Iran insists it can alleviate a potential energy crisis in Pakistan by moving forward with the Iran-Pakistan-India natural gas pipeline.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- International oil majors are gobbling up formal contracts with the Iraqi government to develop some of the country's largest oil fields.
ALBANY, N.Y., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- An oil and gas trade group in New York complained to state officials they need to work to expand exploration of natural gas locked in Marcellus shale deposits.
ASTANA, Kazakhstan, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The Kazakh government announced it was attempting to secure a stake in the massive Karachaganak oil and gas field amid tax disputes with consortium members.
HONG KONG, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The China National Offshore Oil Corp. announced Wednesday two oil and gas fields in Bohai Bay near North Korea started production ahead of schedule.
JACKSON, Mich., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Michigan environmental regulators cleared a hurdle for state utility Consumers Energy to build a new so-called clean coal plant in the state's eastern region.
BERLIN, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Construction of the Nord Steam natural gas pipeline is on schedule following an approval by German environmental officials, directors said.
TEHRAN, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad heads to Turkmenistan on Jan. 6 to launch a second natural gas pipeline between the countries, officials said.
BUCHAREST, Romania, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Southeastern Europe's proposed natural gas pipeline moved a step closer to reality after the Romanian president signed a decree allowing parliament to ratify construction.
U.S. flags are seen in the rucksack of a soldier with the Army's 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, as he places flags at gravesites in Arlington National Cemetery as part of the Flags-In Memorial Day ceremony on May 24, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. American flags were placed at each of the more than 220,000 grave markers in honor of those who served and Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietshc
