South Sudan Leaders in Crisis Talks After Violence Kills 270
South Sudan’s leaders are in emergency talks after days of violence between rival factions in the capital left at least 272 people dead and stoked fears of a return to Continue Reading
Gunfire Rocks South Sudan Amid Fears of Return to Civil War
Fourth day of violence after hundreds killed over weekend U.S. orders evacuation of non-essential personnel from Juba Gunfire rocked South Sudan’s capital for the fourth day as the deaths of Continue Reading
Asian Refiners Reduce Production Rates As Demand Stagnates
North Dakota Refining Slow economic growth in Asia has led local downstream firms to turn down refining production as energy products flood the regional market, according to a recent report Continue Reading
Venezuelans cross border in hunt for food
Omar Torres felt a rush of emotion as he crossed the Simón Bolívar bridge between Colombia and Venezuela with his wife and daughters. “We almost cried when we entered Colombia, Continue Reading
Venezuela to seize Kimberly-Clark factory as production ends
Venezuela’s government said Monday that it will seize a factory belonging to Kimberly-Clark Corp. after the U.S. personal care giant said it was no longer possible to manufacture in this Continue Reading
Thousands of Venezuelans stream over border to Colombia
Tens of thousands of Venezuelans streamed across bridges into Colombia over the weekend after Venezuela briefly lifted a year-old border closure to allow people to buy food and medicine. Colombian Continue Reading
China’s Massive Effort to Purify Seawater Is Drying Up
Stalled projects and underperforming plants have hampered China’s desalination plans. The site of a seawater desalination plant that could provide up to one-third of the water consumed by Beijing’s households Continue Reading
Daido Steel & Honda develop neodymium magnet free of heavy rare earth elements; Honda Freed hybrid first to adopt resulting new motor
Daido Steel Co., Ltd. and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. have developed a practical hot deformed neodymium magnet containing no heavy rare earth elements (REE) that still delivers the high heat Continue Reading
A New Way of Looking at Solar Cells
Advanced imaging technology reveals a bumpy surface of tiny, faceted grains on perovskite solar cells. A big step in helping perovskites reach their potential as the basis for far cheaper Continue Reading
Canada Fires May Have Prompted Rare U.S. Import of Danish Oil
Shipment of light, sweet crude arrived in Louisiana last week First transport from Denmark in 12 years, EIA data show The U.S. imported crude from Denmark last week for the Continue Reading