Fracking Green
Here’s How Shale Is Making America Greener

Thanks to shale, natural gas power production jumped 19 percent last year.

Future Power
Brussels and Berlin Brace for Nuclear Power Stand-off

The EU wants to ignore Germany’s concerns over nuclear power and start funding the research and development of new nuclear technologies.

Crude Economics
Culling the Shale Herd

Collapsing oil prices have left only the most productive tight oil rigs in operation.

Green Solutions
How Carbon Farming Can Help Save the Planet

Environmentalists love to detail the problems we face, but tend to gloss over potential solutions. Here’s a promising one:

Future Food
Scientists (Again) Insist GMOs Are Safe

A science advisory board reaffirmed the safety of genetically modified crops this week.

Crude Economics
Cheap Oil Imperils the Next Energy Breakthrough

The research budgets of the world’s oil majors have been gutted as a result of sustained bargain crude prices.

Crude Economics
Nigeria Erases Global Oil Glut

Fighting in Nigeria is causing major supply disruptions and rebalancing the global oil market.

Crude Economics
Bankruptcies Abound as Cheap Crude Checks Shale Boom

The American oil industry is rife with bankruptcies as companies fall victim to bargain oil prices and rising debt.

Shale Goes Global
The UK Gets Ready to Frack

All the pieces are in place for fracking to start back up in the UK after a five year hiatus.

Fracking Abroad
Can India Unlock Its Shale?

The shale boom has thus far been a uniquely American phenomenon. One Indian oil company wants to change that.

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