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Prelude: Close-up look at world's largest ever vessel
16 December 2014 Last updated at 18:11 GMTA shipyard in South Korea is building the biggest vessel the world has ever seen - a gas processing platform for the energy giant Shell.
Longer than four football pitches laid end-to-end, it stretches for nearly half a kilometre (1600 ft).
Known as Prelude, the vessel will eventually be moored above a gas field in remote waters off Australia and is designed to provide a new way to get gas to the global market.
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Study: Your all-electric car may not be so green
December 16, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — People who own all-electric cars where coal generates the power may think they are helping the environment. But a new study finds their vehicles actually make the air dirtier, worsening global warming.
Ethanol isn't so green, either.
"It's kind of hard to beat gasoline" for public and environmental health, said study co-author Julian Marshall, an engineering professor at the University of Minnesota. "A lot of the technologies that we think of as being clean ... are not better than gasoline."
The key is where the source of the electricity all-electric cars. If it comes from coal, the electric cars produce 3.6 times more soot and smog deaths than gas, because of the pollution made in generating the electricity, according to the study that is published Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They also are significantly worse at heat-trapping carbon dioxide that worsens global warming, it found.
Deep water port under development in Escanaba
December 10, 2014
ESCANABA — Basic Marine has begun the development of Escanaba's north shore, which will become the home of a new...
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India on alert after Sunderbans oil spill in Bangladesh
Environmental authorities in India are on alert after thousands of litres of oil spilled into a nature reserve in neighbouring Bangladesh.
Conservation chief Pradeep Vyas said "precautions" were being taken in West Bengal's coastal region.
Oil leaked into waterways in the Sundarbans area after a collision involving a tanker three days ago.
Officials say it is already harming the region's wildlife, which includes two endangered dolphin species.
Footage shows Bangladeshi villagers scooping oil from rivers using pots and pans and sponges, and birds covered in black liquid in the Sundarbans mangrove forest in south-west Bangladesh.
The oil spilled after a tanker carrying 350,000 litres (77,000 gallons) collided with another vessel, spreading a sheen across 60km of waterways.
Clean-up of Israeli desert oil spill could take years - experts
December 10, 2014
(Reuters) - Ecologists said on Wednesday it could take years to clean up a massive oil spill that flooded an Israeli nature reserve with up to five million liters of crude and threatened to spread to the Red Sea shore and neighboring Jordan.
A breached pipeline started spewing oil into Evrona desert reserve -- famed for its rare deer and douma palms -- a week ago, causing what experts called the worst spill in Israel's 66-year history.