Crude Economics
Saudis Race to Bottom of Oil Market

Saudi Arabia is cutting prices on already cheap crude in an attempt to eke out market share. It’s a bad time to be a petrostate.

Crude Economics
When Cheap Oil Raises Meat Prices

Bahrain more than doubled the price of beef and chicken, cutting meat subsidies in the face of falling oil prices.

Enviro-Mental
Italy and Bulgaria Reject GMOs, Science

Two more European countries join the Luddite anti-GMO movement. Blame hypocritical greens.

Foreign Fracking
China Takes Baby Steps Towards Tapping Shale

Costs are coming down as China’s fledgling shale industry gets its feet underneath it—but there’s still a long way to go.

The Biggest Loser?
Russia Confronted by Grim Crude Reality

The bearish crude market could cut Russian oil production by as much as 10 percent in the coming years. Russia’s medium-term energy prospects are downright dismal

Limping to Paris
Modi Insists on India’s Need to Grow

The Indian prime minister’s emphasis on domestic development spells trouble for the climate summit in Paris this December.

Crude Economics
How Long Can OPEC Keep It Together?

The oil cartel has so far resisted cutting production, but bargain prices are making some of its members increasingly restive.

Future Tech Watch
Aquatic Robots Deployed to Fight Climate Change

Good climate news! Scientists have developed “micromotors” capable of pulling CO2 out of our oceans and storing it.

Diesel Dupe
No End in Sight for the VW Scandal

It seems we’re still only scratching the surface of the effects of VW’s software cheating scandal.

Limping to Paris
The Amazing Disappearing Climate Fund

Rich countries aren’t paying into a climate fund for the developing world, and that could kill the Paris talks before they begin.

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