Aluminum prices continue to rally,…
British multinational oil & gas…
Sam Altman and Andreessen Horowitz…
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), center. Credit: AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster, File Just days after the midterm elections,…
Most people probably don’t fit “bio” and “gasoline” into the same sentence, much less the same word. Nor would they likely include “sustainable.” Yet we have ethanol, essentially a renewable…
Three oil sands companies say scores of birds were killed after landing at their waste facilities in east-central Alberta, Canada, even though their avian deterrents were operational at the time.…
When we think of electric cars, probably the first thing that comes to mind is the Chevrolet Volt, which is smooth running but…
Credit: flickr/ @notnixon According to new numbers published by WWF Scotland this week, wind turbines generated enough electricity in October…
BHP's oil rig Gulf of Mexico. World’s largest miner BHP Billiton (NYSE, ASX:BHP) plans to export ultra-light oil from the U.S. without…
Imagine a device that can not only store energy but can also produce it. Now put your imagination aside and consider a very real substance, the semiconductor molybdenum disulfide. Chemists…
Enbridge's plan to reverse the flow of its L9 pipeline running between southern Ontario and Montreal has been delayed. Enbridge Inc. (TSX, NYSE:ENB),…
Topher Jones, of Denton, Texas, Edward Hartmann, of Dallas and Angie Holliday of Denton, Texas, hold a campaign sign outside city…
The $100 million fine to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is only a small part of the penalty that Hyundai Motor Group must pay because it subsidiaries, Hyundai and…
A new study says hydraulic fracturing and other new energy-extraction techniques are emitting vapors of toxic chemicals, poisoning not only nearby underground and surface water, as was already suspected, but…
Credit: ShutterstockA new 124-mile natural gas pipeline could soon be running from Pennsylvania to New York, after a federal agency found…
The final edition of the United Nations’ assessment on climate change concludes that the growing poisoning of Earth’s atmosphere is due primarily to human activity, and to undo the damage…
There’s an increasing demand from industry and medicine for ever-smaller electronic devices to serve as mechanical gauges and human implants, so the German research institute Fraunhofer has come up with…
Oil has lost a quarter of its market value in recent months, but that didn’t stop Royal Dutch Shell from enjoying a robust rise in overall profits in the third…
The amount of greenhouse gases in specific areas of the Earth’s atmosphere has long been only determined indirectly, by estimating how much gas is emitted from sources like cars and…
The US$33 billion expansion plan was shelved in 2012.World’s largest miner BHP Billiton (ASX:BHP) said Friday that plans to resume…
Cold weather drives people to turn up the thermostat, and that’s exactly what happened during the winter of 2013 across the U.S. Northeast. As a result, the United States experienced…
OPEC Secretary-General Abdalla Salem el-Badri says he doesn’t expect demand for the cartel’s oil or its production levels to change in the coming year, and he is urging member states…
A multidisciplinary engineering team at University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering (UCSD) has developed a new nanoparticle-based material designed to absorb and convert to heat more…