Global warming is opening up the Arctic Circle, and Russia would like to control its bounty of natural resources. An exclusive dispatch from the Yamal Peninsula, where reindeer give way to railroads and gas rigs every day.READ»
While the global market for ever more sophisticated tech gadgets grows, the metals and minerals that make them go are controlled by a handful of countries.READ»
Since the Gulf oil spill of April 2010, people have been asking us, 'Can you really clean up an oil spill?' "Well, not entirely." That answer comes from biological oceanographer Nancy Rabalais of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.READ»
The USDA and scientists at the Oceanic Institute in Hawaii are developing fish feed from fish byproducts--including heads, tails, bones, skins, and internal organs.READ»
Feeling all fuzzy? As this convention kicks off its 10th edition (this year in Nagoya, Japan), here’s a look at six critters worth saving—and the industries threatening to put them under.READ»
In possibly the worst incidence of deja vu in recent memory, BP says that it still might drill in the massive oil reservoir where the Deepwater Horizon leak unleashed over 4 million gallons of oil.READ»
There may no longer be oil seeping into the ocean off Louisiana's coast, but the damage is done. And the cleanup process will be expensive, lengthy, and detrimental to the Gulf economy, according to a report (PDF) from Oxford ...READ»
Talk about capitalizing on the resource shortages of the future: Texas-based S2C Global Systems plans to ship water from Sitka, a tiny water-rich town off Alaska's southeast coast, to India's west coast. Alaska Resource Management, ...READ»
While you were slumbering in your bed, innovación was dancing a pasa doble with the Jules Rimet trophy on its head, crying tears of alegría, and wibbling about in a state of what can only described as benevolent inebriation. Way to ...READ»
"The government's policy on energy in the United States is the most stupid, idiotic, inconsistent, crazy policy you could imagine," said Michael Garland, CEO of wind-powerhouse Pattern Energy Group. Garland spoke at the Renewable ...READ»
Greenpeace gets a lot of flack for its aggressive, embarrassing campaigns against corporations, but the simple truth is that they often work. That's why we have some hope that the organization's most recent campaign, which derides ...READ»
While you were sleeping, and Stanley A. McChrystal was wondering if his next post should be as the France soccer team's manager, innovation was doing stuff. On its iPhone, in pantyhose, and against Ghana.1. After yesterday's ...READ»
The crowdsourcing community launched a challenge soliciting hundreds of ideas for how to stop the leak and clean up the Gulf. But BP doesn't want them.READ»
The Gulf of Mexico oil disaster may, believe it or not, give a boost to our ailing economy. Because while the six-month moratorium on new offshore drilling and the negative impacts on fishing and tourism in the Gulf will undoubtedly ...READ»
Last week we interviewed Merle Savage, a foreman at the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill site who experienced a frightening list of health problems after her stint in Alaska. She warned workers at the BP disaster sites to proceed with ...READ»
Merle Savage has a wheezy, guttural smoker's cough. But the 71-year-old former Alaska resident and author of Silence in the Sound never smoked a day in her life. She did, however, spend four months as a general foreman during the ...READ»
A defaced sign at the site of a May 28th protest in New York City
We were relieved last week when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into BP's involvement in ...READ»
James Cameron, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, newspapers, professionals and probably your mom have proposed solutions to the Gulf crisis. Could this kind of group think really work?READ»
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating BP for any criminal and civil wrongdoing related to the thousands of gallons of crude oil still gushing into the Gulf of Mexico following a April 20 rupture at the Deepwater Horizon well, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced at a news conference in New Orleans today.READ»
The Minerals Management Service, the federal agency responsible for all offshore oil and gas regulation, has dined, partied, fired off shotguns, hunted, golfed, and shared Web porn -- and in a couple of cases even done cocaine and ...READ»
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