Cogeneration—also known as combined heat and power, distributed generation, or recycled energy—is the simultaneous production of two or more forms of energy from a single fuel source.

Vietnam and 14 United Nations organizations in the country have signed an expanded common cooperation plan through 2010 with the aim of maximizing the UN’s support to Vietnam ’s development.

The Cuban and the US flags fluttered together on June 19 by a monument dedicated to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were unjustly executed 55 years ago by fascist forces in the United States.

Several dozen people arrived at The Carter Center Wednesday night, June 11, 2008, to listen to award-winning energy expert and environmentalist S. David Freeman, whose new book sheds light on America’s deadly addiction to "three poisons": foreign oil, coal, and nuclear power.

As John McCain campaigns on a pledge of increasing greenhouse gas emissions by launching new offshore oil drilling and refusing to make caps on emissions by big polluters mandatory, new government data indicates that the effects of global climate change, caused by greenhouse gas emissions, are intensifying.

European Union member states are now able to detain undocumented people for periods up to 18 months without any form of due process. Before, this was only possible for a maximum period of 6 months.

Leading Obama V.P. candidate Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius will speak in Denver on how America can follow Kansas' lead to a clean future based on her remarkable struggle to lead Kansas into a sustainable energy future.

The European Union agreed on Thursday to revoke its sanctions against Cuba, reported the bloc’s foreign relations commissioner, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, quoted by Reuters.

Vietnam and the UK have discussed ways to promote bilateral cooperation in coping with climate change and controlling environmental pollution during a week-long visit by Minister of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) Pham Khoi Nguyen.

The six-month summit of heads of state and governments of the European Union (EU) ends Friday with no accord on a foreseeable date to approve the Lisbon Treaty, rejected in a referendum by Ireland.

With 17 cases in 2007 and only four this year, Cuba is ready to eradicate Hepatitis B transmission with a highly effective vaccine produced here, reported the Cuban media this week.

After one year of a tight blockade on the Gaza Strip, the residents of the beleaguered enclave have some reason for optimism, after a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel went into effect on 19 June at 6am local time.

Anticipating the approval of a record-shattering $165 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, United for Peace and Justice, the nation's largest coalition of anti-war groups, reminded Congress that the people of this country do not support the continued presence of U.S. troops in Iraq.

Erasto Vasquez was surprised to see a forklift appear one morning outside his trailer near the corner of East and Springfield, two small rural roads deep in the grapevines ten miles southwest of Fresno.

The NO vote of the Irish people proves that the arguments about the so-called "Irish model" and "the most favored country" concerned the interests of the bourgeois and not the people.

It is time that UPA government reverses the trends of liberalization, privatization and globalization which have not helped the common people and only increased their miseries.

The Scottish TUC welcomed a new economic report by the Communist Party of Britain Scottish committee on Friday as an important contribution to the debate on enhancing democratic control of the economy.

With the presidential primaries come to a close and the general election only months away, it seems apparent that the ultra-right forces that have enjoyed unprecedented power and influence are about to taste the bitter fruit of defeat.

The Bush administration came under congressional fire this week due to its authorization of torture on prisoners, which has resulted in great criticism from the international community.

The Bush-McCain offshore oil drilling proposal is taking more hits. This time from Republicans. According to the Miami Herald, Republican Florida state legislator Marc Rubio described the Bush-McCain claim that new offshore drilling would lower gas prices as "disingenuous."