A dozen states, led by California, are suing the federal government for the cancellation of billions in funding for alternative energy projects approved by Congress. The suit was filed with a District Court in California, with the plaintiffs—a total of 13 states—alleging that “the termination and abandonment of funding violate the constitutional separation of powers, as the funding was approved by bipartisan majorities in Congress,” per a statement from the California Attorney General’s office. “The President…

19-02-26.-El precio del dólar en el Banco Central de Venezuela (BCV) se cotizó este miércoles 18 de febrero 2026 en Bs.398,74 por unidad según la última actualización en su página web oficial y redes sociales. E...

19 de febrero de 2026.-El líder promete recompensar a los "jóvenes mártires" que murieron mientras Corea del Norte intensifica la propaganda que glorifica a las tropas desplegadas para luchar por Rusia, informó El Guardian. Corea del Norte ha anunciado la finalización de u...

18 de febrero de 2026.-El Papa León XIV no se unirá a la "Junta de Paz" del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump, declaró el martes el máximo diplomático del Vaticano, añadiendo que debería dejarse a las Naciones Unidas la gestión de las situaciones de crisis, informó CNN. La junt...

After years of prioritizing returning cash to shareholders, oil supermajors are about to do something few expected: turning to growth as a top priority. The reason: contrary to dominant expectations, oil and gas will continue to be needed for decades. For years, analysts from some of the most reputable organizations have been predicting a pending decline in oil demand specifically, but also gas demand. The predictions, notably from the International Energy Agency, were based on projections about a widespread adoption of electric vehicles that would…

One of the biggest winners from the new oil order in Venezuela is its neighbor to the east, Guyana, the country that turned into the newest oil producer in the world thanks to ExxonMobil’s massive oil discoveries.  Since Exxon first found oil in Guyana’s offshore Stabroek block a decade ago, one of the poorest South American countries with fewer than 1 million citizens has turned into an economic powerhouse with double-digit growth since 2019, driven by the oil exports and royalties.   Yet, a century-old territorial dispute…

El Benfica vs Real Madrid se detiene durante 10 minutos tras la acusación de racismo contra Vinicius Jr. tras el incidente con Gianluca Prestianni LISBOA, 17 de febrero de 2026.- El partido de ida de los playoffs de la Liga de Campeones del Real Madrid cont...

The U.S. Departments of Energy (DOE) and Defense (DoD) have transported a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah on a cargo plane in a bid to demonstrate the potential to rapidly deploy small and micronuclear reactors (SMRs) for both military and civilian use. The Pentagon partnered with California-based Valar Atomics to transport one of its microreactors on a C-17 aircraft to Hill Air Force Base in Utah. The SMR was, however, moved without nuclear fuel. “This gets us closer to deploying nuclear power when and where it is needed to…

18 de febrero de 2026.-Como parte del esfuerzo impulsado por el Gobierno venezolano, mediante la Gran Misión Vuelta a la Patria, arribó al Aeropuerto Internacional de Maiquetía Simón Bolívar, el vuelo Nº 113 con 110 migrantes venezolanos repatriados procedente de Miami, Florida, Estados U...

The renewable energy revolution is running out of land. Building out utility-scale solar and wind farms requires massive tracts of land that are often in competition with other needs – like agricultural operations – and which frequently face major legal and political pushback from communities in the areas targeted for development. All of this is majorly slowing down clean energy buildout at a critical moment for energy security and climate action.  There are a lot of creative solutions under development for solving this issue,…

Central to Iraq’s medium-term target to raise its crude oil production capacity to over 6 million barrels per day (bpd), up from around 4.1 million bpd this year, is the supergiant Rumaila field. One of the very largest oil fields in the world, it began production in the 1950s and, together with the Kirkuk field, has produced around 80% of the country’s cumulative oil production since then. Over the years, it remained a microcosm of the positives and negatives that characterise Iraq’s oil industry: blessed with an early abundance…

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States fell by 609,000 barrels in the week ending February 13, after increasing by 13.4 million barrels in the week prior. Inventories in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) keep climbing week after week. The Department of Energy (DoE) reported that crude oil inventories rose by 200,000 barrels to 415.4 million barrels in the week ending February 13. This is 310.1 million barrels shy of maximum capacity. US production stopped its fifth week in a row losing…

18 de febrero de 2026.-En el primer mes del año, Cantv solventó más de 10.000 incidencias técnicas en el Distrito Capital, Miranda y La Guaira, en el marco de la atención directa a los reportes generados por los usuarios a través de la VenApp del Sistema 1x10 del Buen Gobierno, informó Comunic...

Miércoles, 18 de febrero de 2026.- Donald Trump durante su segundo mandato ha abandonado cualquier pretensión de hegemonía consensuada para irrumpir con una geopolítica mafiosa de dominación coercitiva. Es la culminación lógica de un patrón bicentenario de injerencia estadounidense en América La...

Some of you may remember devouring those paperbacks with lurid, futuristic covers, imagining the worlds conjured up by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, and Ray Bradbury: the planetary entrepreneurs, the galactic empires, and the firemen who burned books. Back in 1941, Asimov wrote a story about solar power space stations that beamed the energy to Earth.  Arthur C. Clarke later (1951) laid out how to use satellites for communications in The Exploration of Space, but he also noted a German idea, from decades earlier, to put mirrors…

Más de un año después de que una mujer de 33 años muriera congelada en la montaña más alta de Austria, su novio comparecerá en un juicio este jueves, acusado de homicidio por negligencia grave. Kerstin G. murió de hipotermia durante una excursión de montañismo al Grossglockner que s...

Miércoles, 18 e febrero e 2026.- Y hay una realidad, los que han, Cuba es un país de paz. La doctrina de defensa o la doctrina militar de nuestro país es la concepción de la Guerra de todo el Pueblo. Nosotros no somos una amenaza para los Estados Unidos, dijo Díaz Canel, presidente de Cuba. ...

Europe’s carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) market is structurally fragmented. A small group of early movers has built full capture-to-storage systems, while most continental countries remain at the project stage, and France sits in this second tier. Despite its low-carbon power mix, France must cut emissions by about 3% per year, roughly three times its historical pace, to halve emissions by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2050. According to Rystad Energy, this path requires rapid CCUS deployment and deep integration into…

When Winter Storm Fern swept across much of the United States in mid-January 2026—bringing snow, ice, and sustained sub-zero temperatures from Texas to New England—millions of Americans braced for power outages. In some areas, those fears were realized. Tennessee alone reported more than 245,000 customer outages at peak conditions. At the same time, natural gas prices spiked dramatically, exceeding $30 per MMBtu at certain constrained delivery points within the PJM Interconnection. Yet despite the severity and duration of the storm,…

El presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, y su esposa, Cilia Flores, recibieron una visita consular de un funcionario venezolano el pasado 30 de enero mientras aguardan en una cárcel de Nueva York su próxima audiencia judicial, que fue aplazada al 26 de marzo. Según una notificaci...