The COP21 climate talks in Paris reached their halfway point on Saturday, but a deal that experts and global justice campaigners would consider acceptable remains…
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'What we call the eternal ice of Antarctica unfortunately turns out not to be eternal at all,' says lead author of new study A new…
History has been so fascinated with oil and its price movements that it is indeed hard to imagine our future without oil. Over the last…
DENVER—The maniacal drive by the human species to extinguish itself includes a variety of lethal pursuits. One of the most efficient is fracking. One day,…
According to a recent report from Inside Climate News, scientists hired by Exxon had concluded in the 1970s and '80s that continuing to burn great…
At a meeting in Exxon Corporation's headquarters, a senior company scientist named James F. Black addressed an audience of powerful oilmen. Speaking without a text…
When we hear politicians and gas companies extoll the virtues of fracking, jobs created by drilling is usually high on their list of talking points. But…
Just as scientists announced July was the hottest month in recorded history, and ahead of a major climate summit in Paris later this year, an…
A new report from the Energy and Policy Institute reveals the fossil fuel- and utility sector-funded network working to curb the proliferation of renewable energy in…
When an assassin killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914, no one called it the start of the First World War. That happened years…
Last weekend, about 100 U.S. Veterans for Peace gathered in Red Wing, Minnesota, for a statewide annual meeting. In my experience, Veterans for Peace chapters hold “no-nonsense”…
The National Park system is broke, argues Reed Watson, the executive director at the Koch-backed Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) in an op-ed, so…