China snaps up US-seized Venezuelan crude

14 February 2026
China has purchased Venezuelan crude oil that was sold by the US following Washington’s seizure of President Nicolás Maduro in January and a number of the country’s oil tankers.

Shrinking cloud cover adds to accelerating Climate Crisis

14 February 2026
Earth’s cloud cover is diminishing in key regions, reducing the planet’s ability to reflect sunlight back into space and adding to the accelerating Climate Crisis, research reported by Science found.

India expresses interest in US LNG

14 February 2026
India would be open to purchasing LNG from the US if the world’s biggest supplier of the super-chilled fuel offered reasonable prices, the CEO of state-owned Petronet said.

Poland Europe’s largest methane super-emitter from coal mines

13 February 2026
Poland has been identified as Europe’s largest “super-emitter” of methane from coal mining operations, according to a new report by energy think-tank Ember.

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