Yet no crop could grow in the pitch-black surface exposed by the machine working 1,000ft [...]
Yet no crop could grow in the pitch-black surface exposed by the machine working 1,000ft [...]
The study, for the Wales Audit Office led by auditor general for Wales Jeremy Colman, estimated that flood risk will increase 20-fold by [...]
A stretch of coastline on the Texas-Louisiana border provides a startling glimpse of EuropeÂ’s energy future. There, where Lake Sabine empties into the Gulf of Mexico, a giant port was completed last year. Built at a cost of $1.5 billion [...]
Charles Dickens opened his Victorian-era novel "A Tale of Two Cities" with these famous lines: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness .. ."
I found Dickens' contradictions particularly helpful for understanding the totality' [...]
IF THE world fails to act soon on climate change, "preserving security and stability even at current levels will become increasingly difficult". That's the blunt message of a statement released in Washington DC (PDF) last week by 10 high-ranking military officials from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the US.
The [...]
Sea ice extent grew throughout October, as the temperature dropped and darkness returned to the Arctic. However, a period of relatively slow ice growth early in the month kept the average ice extent low—October 2009 had the second-lowest ice extent for the month over the 1979 to 2009 period.
In [...]
The Energy Information AdministrationÂ’s (EIA) U.S. Crude Oil, Natural Gas, and Natural Gas Liquids Proved Reserves, 2008 reports that proved reserves of crude oil fell by more than 10 percent in 2008, primarily because of low end-of-year prices used to estimate proved reserves, even though discoveries of crude oil rose [...]
DETROIT (Reuters) - There's a simple way to get Americans to drive fuel-efficient cars, according to auto executives, but they are not going to like it -- sharply hike the gas tax.
While politically unpalatable, gasoline that costs at least $4 a gallon would have a far greater effect on American [...]
‘These results are just the tip of the iceberg,’ conservationist says
GENEVA - A rare Panamanian tree frog, a rodent from Madagascar and two lizards found only in the Philippines are among over 17,000 species threatened with extinction, a leading environmental group said Tuesday. [...]
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The coming century will overflow with petroleum.
It offends conventional wisdom. It will also seem nasty to the doom-sayers, who for decades have predicted an oil scarcity that never came. But the 21st century is very likely to overflow with oil. There are at least three main reasons for this.
First, oil [...]
Independent journalist Michael Ruppert predicted the global recession. Now he's foreseeing an imminent energy crisis
Michael Ruppert proudly claims that he predicted the global economic slump more than four years ago in his self-published "From the Wilderness," a monthly news publication and Web site. A narcotics investigator for the Los Angeles [...]
In 1877 Russian scientist Dimitri Mendeelev suggested that the large deposits of oil and gas we find under the surface of the Earth could be made without the decay of long-dead organisms in a process called abiotic synthesis of methane. Since then the theory has been relegated to the back [...]
LONDON (Reuters) - The International Energy Agency (IEA) is set to forecast global supplies of natural gas will rise faster than demand in coming years, the Financial Times newspaper reported on Thursday.
"Global gas markets have evolved from a seller's market, driven by tight supply and demand, to a buyer's market" [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Federal Trade Commission rule takes effect on Wednesday that will hit energy traders and companies with fines of up to $1 million a day if they manipulate the oil markets.
The FTC unveiled the rule back in August to go after fraud in oil markets that [...]
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The International Energy Agency will "substantially" downgrade its long-term oil demand forecast in its annual energy outlook next week, the second cut in a row, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
Efforts to better manage expanding oil demand in the developed world have been more effective than [...]
For those concerned about global warming, all eyes are on December's UN climate change conference in Copenhagen. The stakes could not be higher. Almost every new report shows that the climate is [...]
The nuclear industry could be on the verge of a major expansion just as the government cancels a plan to store the waste. Where's it going to go?
BAY CITY, Texas (CNNMoney.com) -- At a Texas power plant, two men in head-to-toe yellow jumpsuits are perched above a pool filled with [...]
While oil has risen, the U.S. currency has weakened, leading to speculation that the [...]
The IEA is set to revise its long-term oil demand forecasts - for 2030 - downwards again this year, according to the Wall Street Journal. Citing a person ‘familiar’ with the forecast, the WSJ story doesn’t give an number, but hints at two reasons: first [...]
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) – Scientists pointed the finger on Wednesday at Southeast Asian countries for draining wetlands for palm oil and cheap timber production, warning the practice was stoking dangerous global warming.
In a presentation on the sidelines of the UN climate talks, a network of scientists branded Southeast Asia the [...]
Each of these carmakers is gearing up to be the next big thing in electric automobiles. Here is how they're charting success.
Tesla Motors is already well-known for its all-electric two-seat Tesla Roadster sports car, which has received tons of media attention. The $100,000 vehicle recently went on sale, and so' [...]
Russia doesn't seem to care two bits about global warming, and it's not hard to see why. Most Russians would probably be happy if the country was a little warmer. Officials even joke that once climate change has run its course, people may start pouring in to Siberia instead of' [...]
There is certainly [...]
What Arthur Berman is saying is that natural gas companies that extract shale are mis-estimating how quickly natural gas production will decline in the future--they are assuming gas production will decline more slowly than evidence indicates it will. As a result of their optimistic assumptions about decline rates, they are [...]
Many commodities are still down from record highs and equity markets arenÂ’t on the brink of collapse, Rogers, chairman [...]
