By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 17 March 2007 In the volatile Western Iraqi province of Al-Anbar, suicide bombers driving trucks filled with chemicals struck at three different locations late Friday afternoon. U.S. military officials said Saturday at...
By Bill Gasperini Sakhalin, Russia 20 October 2006 A giant energy project on Russia's remote Sakhalin Island has recently come under scrutiny because of environmental concerns. A foreign run consortium has long been building parallel gas and oil pip...
A little old lady goes to the doctor ... and says, "Doctor, I have this problem with gas, but it doesn't really bother me too much. They never smell and are always silent. As a matter of fact, I've fa...
By Jim Malone Washington 26 April 2006 The rising cost of gasoline in the United States is the latest in a series of political problems facing President Bush and Republicans in Congress as they look a...
By Scott Stearns White House 25 April 2006 President Bush President Bush is temporarily suspending environmental rules on gasoline and deferring purchases for the nation's strategic reserves in hopes...
By Patricia Nunan Kathmandu 22 April 2006 Nepalese protesters throng a street as smoke billows from a roadblock made of burning tires, set up by protesters in defiance of a curfew called by the govern...
By Scott Stearns Washington 18 April 2006 President Bush President Bush says he is concerned about the affect rising gasoline prices will have on the U.S. economy. Some of the record increases come fr...
By Bill Gasperini Moscow 29 January 2006 Georgian man wheels in a barrow of free firewood distributed by the authorities in Tbilisi, 29 January 2006 Russian natural gas has begun to flow through the m...
ENVIRONMENT REPORT – May 24, 2002: Less Gas from Farm Animals By George Grow This is the VOA Special English Environment Report. Scientists in New Zealand have found a way to reduce methane gases re...
Broadcast: Feb 13, 2003 Demand for electricity is growing in Mexico, but the state-owned oil company, known as Pemex, is reducing the amount of natural gas it can provide for electrical generation. Th...