New Zealand Farm Company to Stop Using Palm Oil ProductsABC NewsEnvironmentalists have linked growth in the palm oil industry to rainforest destruction in Indonesia. Landcorp Chief Executive Steven Carden told The Associated Press that consumers worldwide …

Cooking Oil, Graphene Among CO2 Capture Prize Entry IdeasABC NewsCooking oil and graphene, a recently discovered substance stronger than steel, might seem to have little in common, but some theorize both could be made from carbon dioxide emitted by coal- a …

Financial TimesKazakhstan acts after Romania blocks oil deal - FT.comFinancial TimesKazakhstan's state oil company has initiated legal proceedings against Romania after prosecutors froze its shares in the country's largest oil refinery, disrupting& …

NBCNews.comGirls Beat Boys in Eighth-Grade Tech, Engineering Literacy Tests: SurveyNBCNews.comAmerican eighth-grade girls on average scored better than their male peers in technology and engineering literacy tests, according to a national report card relea …

Girls Outperform Boys in Test of Tech-Engineering LiteracyABC NewsThe findings released Tuesday come from a first-of-its-kind assessment of technology and engineering literacy by The Nation's Report Card. The 2014 assessment had 21,500 students in 840 …

Engineering a way to close the gender gap in STEM (infographic)Siliconrepublic.comThis week is an Engineers Week, an Engineers Ireland initiative that aims to inspire the next generation of engineers. A strong focus of the week – and of the industry in gen …

Civil engineering firm goes follow-the-sun with Azure cloud and TalonComputerWeekly.comCivil engineer and consultant the Robert Bird Group has moved to follow-the-sun working across offices in three continents after deploying Talon Storage CloudFAST and Mi …

BT.comBT backs scheme to encourage girls to pursue engineering and tech careersBT.comBT is among a group of leading firms giving their support to a new scheme that encourages girls to consider technology and engineering carrers. BT, Ericsson, 02 and Vodafo …

Company Plans Gravel Island to Extract Arctic Offshore OilABC NewsWhile Shell proposed exploratory wells in the Chukchi Sea about 80 miles off Alaska's northwest coast, a Texas oil company wants to build a gravel island as a platform for five or more e …

Reuters Blogs (blog)Chaos in Libya: It's the oil, stupidReuters Blogs (blog)Militias have taken control of oil fields, pipelines and export facilities across the country. At first, they sought to extort the central government to keep the oil flowing. B …