Energy industry leaders on Wednesday called for a fresh push in the fight against climate change and urged governments to make it easier for the world's poor to access power sources.

The US Department of Energy on Monday confirmed it was the target of a cyber attack in January, which stole employee and contractor data, but said no classified data was compromised.

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who has served under President Barack Obama since 2009, is stepping down, the White House said Friday.

Cumbria's county council voted on Wednesday against any further steps towards building a £12 billion underground nuclear waste dump in the area, dealing a blow to the government's nuclear energy plans.

Ukraine and the global oil giant Royal Dutch Shell signed Thursday a $10 billion shale gas production sharing agreement aimed at helping the ex-Soviet nation ease its dependence on Russia.

Ukraine and the global oil giant Royal Dutch Shell signed Thursday a $10 billion shale gas production sharing agreement aimed at helping the ex-Soviet nation ease its dependence on Russia.

A gas site in the Algerian Sahara desert that was shut down after Islamists attacked it and took foreign workers hostage will be up and running in the next two days, the energy minister said on Sunday.

US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who came to global prominence after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, gave notice Wednesday that he will not serve in President Barack Obama's second term.

French President Francois Hollande called on Tuesday for pumping more investments in renewable energy projects to prepare for the post-oil era and to avoid global warming and very high oil prices.

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) on Sunday launched the world's first atlas on clean energy which will offer open-access information on countries' renewable energy potential.

Up to half of all the food produced in the world -- two billion tonnes of it -- is thrown away, according to a report published on Thursday.

Iraq has approved an oil exploration deal with a Kuwait-led group, a statement said Thursday, replacing a previous agreement with a Turkish firm that was torpedoed amid worsening ties with Ankara.

A top US oil industry figure warned Tuesday that the country's energy renaissance could be threatened by "punitive" tax policies on oil and gas exploration.

Algeria and Turkey have decided to renew for 10 years from 2014 an agreement for Algeria to deliver four billion cubic metres of gas annually to Turkey, Energy Minister Youcef Yousfi said on Saturday.

Turkey signed on Thursday an agreement with the United Arab Emirates for the development of coal fields in southern Turkey to generate electricity.

Asian countries are closer to winning a bid to build Turkey's second nuclear power plant near the Black Sea city of Sinop, the Turkish energy minister said on Tuesday, in a signal that Canada was no longer in the running.

President Dilma Rousseff urged businesses to expand their investments as Brazil cuts energy costs in a bid to curb poverty and improve flagging industrial competitiveness.

A train carrying biodiesel crisscrossed the Canada-US border repeatedly without unloading its cargo, exploiting a loophole in a US green energy program, Canada's public broadcaster reported Wednesday.

Another 300,000 homes are likely to face "fuel poverty" by Christmas following the latest round of energy price hikes, an advisory body warned on Monday.

Encana on Thursday sold a stake in its Duvernay oil field in Canada's Alberta province to Phoenix Duvernay Gas, a subsidiary of Chinese state-owned PetroChina for Can$2.18 billion.