A 30-year war for energy preeminence? You wouldn’t wish it even on a desperate planet. But that’s where we’re headed and there’s…
Here’s the good news about energy: thanks to rising oil prices and deteriorating economic conditions worldwide, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reports…
In his 2010 book, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, environmental scholar and activist Bill McKibben writes of a planet…
Whatever the outcome of the protests, uprisings, and rebellions now sweeping the Middle East, one thing is guaranteed: the world of oil…
Get ready for a rocky year. From now on, rising prices, powerful storms, severe droughts and floods, and other unexpected events are…
If you want to know which way the global wind is blowing (or the sun shining or the coal burning), watch China. …
On June 15th, in their testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the chief executives of America’s leading oil companies argued…
Yes, the oil spewing up from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico in staggering quantities could prove one of the great…
Think of it as a tale of two countries. When it comes to procuring the resources that make industrial societies run, China…
The anticipation may be building, but we’ll all have to wait for the 82nd Academy Awards on March 7th to find out…
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