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Sep 26, 2011 at 04:19

The European Commission has drawn up a “roadmap to a resource efficient Europe”, which it believes shows the way for the EU to decouple economic growth from resource use and…

Sep 25, 2011 at 14:08

November Crude Oil finished sharply lower this week in a move driven by the U.S. Federal Reserve’s assessment of the economy. On Wednesday, September 21, the Fed stated in its…

Sep 22, 2011 at 14:41

The Soviet Union imploded peacefully in December 1991 and fifteen new nations lost no time in running for the exits. Western capitalists, drooling at the vast potential opportunities unleashed by…

Sep 22, 2011 at 14:29

The EIA published International Energy Outlook 2011 (IEO 2011) on September 19, showing energy projections to 2035. One summary stated, “Global Energy Use to Jump 53%, largely driven…

Sep 22, 2011 at 14:26

Suspected Mexican drug traffickers from the Zetas drug cartel on 20 September drove two trucks to a main avenue in the Mexican Gulf coast city of Boca del Rio in…

Sep 22, 2011 at 13:58

I've just finished a new research paper with my former student (and now University of Chicago Professor) Cynthia Wu. In our new paper, we study how increased purchases of…

Sep 22, 2011 at 13:56

Penn State researchers have discovered a low-energy way to harvest hydrogen fuel that may offer a limitless supply of the clean-burning power source.  Hydrogen is a dream fuel that was…

Sep 21, 2011 at 14:48

The U.S.-Mexican border is one of the few in the world where the First World coexists uneasily alongside the Third World. A second is the demilitarized zone dividing North and…

Sep 21, 2011 at 14:45

One of the reasons governments have been pushing biomass burning is the notion that it would displace fossil fuels and thereby reduce CO2 emissions. Biomass is renewable and displaces fossil…

Sep 21, 2011 at 14:43

“The chapter is closed,” says Siemens CEO Peter Löscher in regard to the company’s nuclear energy business.  In response to the world’s growing concern over the safety of nuclear power,…

Sep 21, 2011 at 14:39

Gold slipped below $1,800 per ounce last week as equities rallied in a burst of risk on investor enthusiasm. Does this spell the end of the bull run? The gold…

Sep 21, 2011 at 14:38

Britain's first public hydrogen filling-station has opened in Swindon. It will be run by BOC (British Oxygen Company) who are the nation's biggest supplier of compressed gases. It is said…

Sep 21, 2011 at 08:37

The Iranian media is mounting a full court press against Western charges that its Bushehr nuclear power plant (NPP), which came online last week, in fact conceals a nefarious covert…

Sep 21, 2011 at 08:30

It is clear there are limits to the pollution a given ecosystem can absorb, the level of resources that can be depleted, and debt that can be incurred. Despite concerns…

Sep 21, 2011 at 08:27

Crude oil futures edged lower on Wednesday, as traders positioned themselves ahead of the outcome of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy meeting later in the day and a government report…

Sep 21, 2011 at 08:16

Last week authorities apprehended a trader for UBS, the huge, international Swiss bank, on suspicion that he lost $2 billion of the bank's money in unauthorized trades. It's not the…

Sep 21, 2011 at 07:42

With the right combination of policy and communications, the Green Deal could create jobs, boost local economies, and cut carbon. Thirty-nine, thirty-eight… The countdown to the UK’s emission targets for…

Sep 19, 2011 at 15:54

On 17 September The Wall Street Journal published a fascinating article on “peak oil,” “There Will Be Oil,” written by Daniel Yergin, chairman of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates, an…

Sep 19, 2011 at 15:46

Hadrian, the third of the “five good emperors” of Rome, ruled from 117 to 138 in a time of consolidation of the Roman Empire.  Best known for building Hadrian’s Wall,…

Sep 19, 2011 at 15:42

A new book out this week by United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health leader Peter Sale predicts that coral reefs will be wiped off the face of…