The Big Answer to Wrangling Oi...

Apr 17, 2015 by

The Big Answer to Wrangling Oil Spills Could Be in This Tiny Mesh

[Translate] TAKE PART DAILY Inspired by a lotus leaf, researchers have come up with a potentially powerful solution to saving ocean...

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Could Seattle activists throw ...

Apr 15, 2015 by

[Translate] Greenpeace activists hung a red “The People vs. Shell” banner from the Polar Pioneer oil drilling rig.   ...

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Beneath the tar sands is even ...

Apr 13, 2015 by

Beneath the tar sands is even dirtier oil, and industry is salivating over it

[Translate] Shutterstock Tar Sands 2.0 By Nika Knight GRIST The price of crude oil has slumped to its lowest point in six years, and...

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Despite Known Risk of Spill, U...

Mar 23, 2015 by

Despite Known Risk of Spill, U.S. to Let Shell Drill in Arctic

[Translate] Posted on Mar 23, prostate  2015 David Astley (CC BY-SA 2.0) In spite of estimates of a 75 percent or greater chance of...

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America is literally on fire: ...

Mar 10, 2015 by

America is literally on fire: How out-of-control oil spills are destroying our population centers

[Translate] Disasters are raging with such force and regularity that firefighters have to give up. Welcome to the new reality David...

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Crime In North Dakota’s Oil Bo...

Mar 8, 2015 by

Crime In North Dakota’s Oil Boom Towns Is So Bad That The FBI Is Stepping In

[Translate] by Katie Valentine CLIMATE PROGRESS Workers tend to oil pump jacks behind a natural gas flare, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014,...

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To Drill or Not to Drill, That...

Mar 4, 2015 by

To Drill or Not to Drill, That Is the Question

[Translate] By Subhankar Banerjee, TomDispatch  VIA TRUTHDIG (NASA Goddard Photo and Video (CC BY 2.0)) This piece first appeared at...

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SHELL WITHDRAWS FROM LARGEST T...

Feb 25, 2015 by

SHELL WITHDRAWS FROM LARGEST TAR SANDS PROJECT YET

[Translate] by Ari Phillips CLIMATE PROGRESS Alberta tar sands, 2010. CREDIT: flickr/ NWFblogs Keystone XL is not the only deciding...

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TRANSCANADA HAS BIG NEW PLANS ...

Feb 22, 2015 by

TRANSCANADA HAS BIG NEW PLANS FOR MOVING OIL AROUND, AND YOU WON’T LIKE THE THEM

[Translate] Shutterstock | Shutterstock Since Keystone is stalled out … By John Light   GRIST TransCanada, the company pushing...

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Oil And Gas Companies Won’t Ha...

Feb 15, 2015 by

Oil And Gas Companies Won’t Have To Pay For Damage Caused To Louisiana’s Coast, Judge Rules

[Translate] by Katie Valentine CLIMATE PROGRESS In the last 80 years, sovaldi Louisiana alone has lost an area of coastal land the...

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DROUGHT-STRICKEN CALIFORNIA LE...

Feb 8, 2015 by

DROUGHT-STRICKEN CALIFORNIA LET OIL COMPANIES INJECT WASTE INTO DRINKABLE WATER SOURCES

[Translate]   by Emily Atkin  CLIMATE PROGRESS The drought crippling California is by some measures the worst in the state’s...

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WHY THE CRASH IN OIL PRICES SH...

Feb 6, 2015 by

WHY THE CRASH IN OIL PRICES SHOULD BURY “PEAK OIL” ONCE AND FOR ALL

[Translate] ◀ Environment Why the Crash in Oil Prices Should Bury ‘Peak Oil’ Once and for All The problem isn’t that we...

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THE COLD RUSH

Feb 1, 2015 by

THE COLD RUSH

[Translate] Metropolis Magazine / As the Arctic melts, pioneering architects and planners design for the ultimate extreme climate....

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TO PREVENT CATASTROPHE –...

Jan 8, 2015 by

TO PREVENT CATASTROPHE – Majority Of U.S. Coal, Canadian Tar Sands Will Have To Stay In The Ground To Meet Climate Goals

[Translate] by Tom Kenworthy CLIMATE PROGRESS CREDIT: Shutterstock Keeping the increase in global temperatures under 2°C will require...

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