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In the Red Sea, an oil tanker rots — it could create the largest spill in human history
There may finally be hope towards fixing the issue, however.
Have we passed peak oil demand? The world might never use as much oil again, experts say
The industry anticipates a fragile outlook for the rest of the year, and even further.
Pregnant women living near oil and gas wells are 40% more likely to birth low-weight babies
Researchers looked at the records of three million births in California and found a disturbing pattern.
Oil prices could drop to $10 amid coronavirus outbreak
Oil storage levels across the world’s storage facilities have climbed to about three-quarters full on average as demand dries up.
Saudi oil company Aramco prepares for $1.5 trillion IPO
This would make it the most valuable company in the world, overtaking Apple by about half a trillion dollars.
What are the healthiest oils to cook with? An explainer
Supermarket shelves are packed with a variety of cooking oils -- but which on to choose?
Major oil corporations spent $1 billion on climate lobbying against Paris Agreement-related regulations
Big oil has been all about double standards these past couple of years.
Eating bad PUFAs may put you at risk of developing asthma — but fish contains the good PUFAs
I'm thrilled that PUFAs is an actual scientific term.
Nanoparticle treatment developed to scrub water clean of oil pollution
Nobody likes oil in their water.
Bahrain announces new, massive 80-billion-barrels shale oil reservoir
Is this good news or bad news?
Oil slicks continue to grow in the East China Sea after tanker sank in the area
It does not look good.
What is petroleum, and where does it come from?
You gotta crack some plankton to make crude oil.
First images of the Amazonian reef released by Greenpeace
More like Amazingonian reef, am I right?
US and Canada ban offshore drilling in the Arctic
Obama hopes the move will be hard to undo for his successor.
Oil & gas lobby shouldn’t have a full seat at the climate table
The wolves, dining with the sheep.
New method developed to create biocrude oil from wastewater
From your toilet to the gas tank.
British energy expert: ‘oil companies have 10 years to change strategy or die’
One energy expert from the U.K. made headlines with his bold comments. He says oil companies have only 10 years ...
Researchers find hundreds of methane leaks at well pads in nation-wide thermal imaging study
The Environmental Defense Fund’s Oil and Gas program has released a new nation-wide report of the most common sites of ...
Oddly enough, phytoplankton thrive above natural oil seeps
Marine biologists study microbes in the waters above natural oil seeps in the Gulf of Mexico stumbled upon something unexpected. ...
Illegal waste dumping turns Roman catacomb into a lake of acrid oil
Authorities sealed off the area and are now investigating possible environmental pollution from the underground lake of acrid oil.
Royal Bank of Scotland: Oil may reach $16 a barrel in 2016
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has announced clients to brace for a "cataclysmic year" with a global deflation crisis, ...
Oil producers in Canada are closing their taps – probably among the first of many
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the slumping price of oil - the lowest in six years - ...
The coal industry is tanking, while execs are getting a raise
Right now the coal business is arguably living through its most dire days ever. Nearly 300 mines have closed in ...
Oil industry at its lowest in six years: over $500 billion in collective debt
In just a couple of weeks the price of oil, and commodity in general, have plunged. This Friday, oil was ...
Military energy report downplays oil in favor of renewable energy
In its “Energy Security and Sustainability Strategy” (ES2 Strategy) report, the US army outlines the steps it should take to ...
Obama bans drilling in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, citing risk to salmon fishery
In what is not only a laudable initiative but also an interesting precedent, president Obama has declared a large swath of ...
Abandoned wells can be ‘super-emitters’ of greenhouse gas
Princeton University researchers have uncovered a previously unknown and potentially substantial source of methane emissions: abandoned oil and gas wells. ...
Massive oil spill floods nature reserve in Israel – possibly the country’s worst environment disaster
More than 80 people were hospitalized after inhaling noxious fumes after a pipeline failure caused some 600,000 gallons of oil to ...
High level of arsenic contamination found in groundwater near fracking sites
Photo: Peak Oil Researchers at University of Texas at Arlington conducted tests on more than 100 water wells in Texas and ...
Why Australia’s biggest oil discovery in 30 years doesn’t matter
Apache claims to have found the biggest oil field in 30 years. Image credit: Apache. I was reading this morning ...
‘Everything is NOT awesome’: Greenpeace viral video slashes Shell-Lego partnership
Photo: YouTube Greenpeace premiered a video yesterday that campaign's against Shell's plans of drilling in the Arctic, but primarily targets ...
Wastewater pumping from oil drilling and fracking caused Oklahoma seismicity to surge
This year, Oklahoma already had over 230 earthquakes with a magnitude of over 3. In 2008, the average number was ...
Ecuador plans to move ahead controversial drilling efforts in the Amazon
An aerial view of the Yasuni National Park, in Ecuador's northeastern jungle. Photograph: Dolores Ochoa/AP Yasuni National Park to be ...
Researchers find contamination in Canadian oilsands operation, but aren’t allowed to talk about it
Researchers from Environment Canada (EC) and the University of Alberta have published a study in which they showed contaminants accumulated ...
Oil Company will build the longest vessel ever
Well despite what you may think, the oil industry is doing better than ever. With a length of 468 meters, ...
Ecuador will receive 3.6 billion $ not to drill for oil in a historic pact
The race for oil drilling is tougher than ever, and the effects are quite often extremely damaging for the environment ...
World’s first genome transplant – a step forward towards creating synthetic life forms
Once the first transplant was conducted the entire history stated to change and since then science has broken a lot ...
The price of oil without water
The environmental challenges we have to overcome (fast) cover virtually every field in human activity. Focuses such as finding green ...