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oil and gas platform surrounded by water
Energy
Norway becomes top gas supplier to Europe after Russia invasion
Port cranes load a climate friendly LNG, liquefied natural gas, powered container ship at the import and export harbor in Hamburg, Germany
Energy
Europe’s new liquified gas infrastructure puts climate targets in question
A natural gas power plant of RWE AG in Lingen, Germany
Ukraine
Can heat pumps help bring peace to Ukraine?
The view of banners for the UN climate conference COP26 displayed in central Glasgow, Scotland
Energy
Glasgow summit pledge to phase out fossil fuel subsidies faces an uphill battle
A health worker inoculates a man next to a banner thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine at a government hospital in New Delhi, India
Top of The World
A milestone for India: 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses administered.
Protestors hold up signs at a rally against a proposed Kinder Morgan oil pipeline expansion on Burnaby Mountain in 2014 in British Columbia. In late May, the Canadian government announced it would fund an expansion project for the Kinder Morgan Trans Moun
With pipeline decision, Canada’s Trudeau draws ire of environmental supporters
Members of environmental groups hold up banners calling for renewable energy at the United Nations climate talks that took place in Bonn, Germany in 2015. Bonn was the site of the last United Nations Climate Change Conference in November 2017, in which co
Climate Change
As latest UN climate change summit looms, delegates have plenty of work to do
Bits of icebergs can be seen that have broken off the Sawyer Glacier in Alaska, where the effects of climate change are being felt at a higher rate than the Lower 48.
Environment
Alaskan youth sue state government for lack of action against climate change
A hill of coal sits under a shelter at the Prosper-Haniel coal mine. The mine is closing after 150 years.
Environment
In Germany, miners and others prepare for a soft exit from hard coal
Drilling in Wyoming
Environment
The US Department of the Interior’s new four-year strategic plan calls for maximizing fossil fuel extraction from public lands
Ryan Zinke
Environment
What kind of interior secretary will Ryan Zinke be?
Gold mining DRC
Justice
Catholic bishops outraged by Congress’ repeal of an anti-corruption measure that could support child labor
A vast array of curved mirrors at the Noor Concentrated Solar Power plant near Ouarzazate, Morocco. The massive facility is part of an agressive effort to develop renewable power in Morocco.
Environment
Now blooming in the desert: Morocco’s grand dream of energy independence
EXIM Bank fossil fuels
Environment
Obama’s hidden, and surprising, fossil fuel legacy
China says it will invest another $361 dollars in renewable energy over the next four years and create 13 million new jobs in the sector, building on previous massive investments. The country already has the largest capacity of solar p
Environment
Donald Trump sees the future in coal. China sees the future in renewables. Who’s making the safer bet?
After an extremely warm first half of the year, global surface temperatures were heading for a third-straight record warm year in 2016. This NOAA map from December shows record warm temperatures (red) and record cold (blue) through the first 11 months of
Environment
2016 brought more record temperatures. So what climate course will the US and Trump set in 2017?
Fossil Fuel protest
Culture
Millennials are the new ‘fossil fuel freedom fighters’
Marrakech’s Koutoubia mosque has soaked up the Moroccan sun for nearly 900 years. Now it also puts those rays to work generating clean electricity with newly installed solar panels.
Environment
Muslim environmentalists give their religion — and their mosques — a fresh coat of green
Exxon sign
Justice
The SEC is investigating how ExxonMobil values its fossil fuel holdings
Oil lease arrests
Environment
Gulf of Mexico oil leases spark protests, but little revenue
Avon Lake power plant
Environment
Pollution from America’s power plants is a deadly serious problem, a new study shows
An engraving by William Miller of Newcastle in 1832
Environment
Newcastle University cuts its ties to coal
Huge mining truck
Environment
A new study examines the benefits of keeping fossil fuels ‘in the ground’
A gas flare burns at a fracking site in rural Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
Environment
Falling natural gas prices are bad news for some US communities
Harvard heat week megaphone
Environment
At Harvard Law, a highly visible push to divest from fossil fuels
Protest in Guba, Azerbaijan.
Economics
In oil-rich Azerbaijan, people protest. The government responds with arrests.
Western Antarctic ice sheet
Environment
A prominent scientist says the just-reached COP21 target for climate change may be unrealistic
Opponents of the Keystone XL oil pipeline planned to run from the Alberta tas sands to refineries in the US finally got their wish on Friday when president Obama pulled the plug on the project.
Environment
With Keystone down and Exxon under investigation, it’s been a tough week for the oil business
Justin Trudeau
Environment
How a new prime minister will reshape Canada’s environmental policies
Powder River Basin
Environment
Activists to Obama: Stop leasing public land to take out oil, gas, coal
Coal power plant
Environment
World leaders announce goal of fossil fuel freedom by 2100 at UN Climate Change conference
"Kayaktivists" demonstrate in Seattle's Elliot Bay against the arrival last month of the Shell's massive Polar Pioneer oil rig, rising behind them above the city's waterfront. Shell is using Seattle as a staging area for its new offshore drilling operatio
Environment
The road to Arctic oil drilling runs through Seattle. People there are trying to block it.
Shanghai smog
Environment
IMF: ‘True cost’ of fossil fuels is $5.3 trillion a year
Solar power production has grown more than 25 times over the last decade in Germany, spurred largely by big incentives for small producers to get into the market. But sunshine and wind power are intermittent, so engineers and others are looking for ways t
Environment
How do you catch the sun to make electricity at night? This German inventor has an answer.
Divest Harvard Co-Founder Chloe Maxmin became an activist at age 12
Environment
Activists go up against Drew Faust as Harvard refuses to divest carbon
Opponents of the Keystone XL oil pipeline rally in front of the White House on February 24, 2015, the day President Barack Obama vetoed a bill circumventing administration review of the project and mandating its construction.
Environment
President Obama’s veto isn’t the end of the Keystone XL story
Britain's National Gallerly sells its soul to the villainous "Man from Shell" is this recent guerilla theater presentation by the activist group Art Not Oil. Fossil fuel industry support of cultural institutions has become increasingly controversial in th
Environment
For these activists, oil and art just don’t mix
The MV Akademik Shokalskiy got caught in encroaching ice off Antarctica in late December of 2013. The Russian ship's 52 passengers were airlifted to a nearby icebreaker more than a week later.
Environment
In looking back at this year’s environmental news there’s a lot of doom and gloom — but not entirely
President Obama speaks about climate science with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman on the Showtime documentary series "Years of Living Dangerously." The president's comments to Friedman that "we're not going to be able to burn" all the world's fos
Environment
Why President Obama’s strong words on climate change matter, despite his weak record
President Obama speaks about climate science with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman on the Showtime documentary series "Years of Living Dangerously." The president's comments to Friedman that "we're not going to be able to burn" all the world's fos
Environment
Why President Obama’s strong words on climate change matter, despite his weak record
The government of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is proposing to restore nuclear power to a prominent position in the country's energy mix, nearly three years after a triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Environment
In a post-Fukushima shift, Japan’s government charts a path back to a nuclear future
Climate change activist Bill McKibben speaking in Waitsfield, Vermont in 2012.
Environment
To fight climate change, activist says Obama’s policy needs ‘to be as good as physics demands’
coal barge
Environment
Fukushima is casting a shadow on Japan and the Warsaw climate meeting
President Calls For more US Oil & Gas Drilling
Drilling Beneath the Seas
Drilling for Votes
Drilling for Votes
Post-Katrina Energy
Offshore Drilling Debate
Business, Economics and Jobs
Outsourcing the dangers of oil drilling
Environment
President unveils offshore drilling plan
Global Politics
A bold announcement on offshore drilling brings little relief to drivers