The economic good news following a stronger-than-expected rebound in job creation and dramatic recent discoveries of vast U.S. oil and gas reserves are helping the American economy out of its long funk. The Labor Department’s report that payrolls expanded by … Continued
Around the world engineers and architects are rethinking the current design of architectural and environmental infrastructure, in favor of regenerative systems that are capable of harnessing wasted energy and resources and redistributing them where needed. A company in Rotterdam in … Continued
Barack Obama will almost certainly approve the Keystone XL pipeline, predicts a former senior figure in the State Department who recently brought that message to Ottawa. “I would say the chances are about four-to-one” in favour of the President approving … Continued
Scientists at Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel. Its density is roughly one-sixth that of air, and the scientists behind it claim it is the lightest material ever manufactured. It is so light, t…
Robots are everywhere. In our cars, our factories and our homes. They’re also running up the sides of steep hills and completely mastering tough terrain. At least that was BigDog’s signature move — until now. The Boston Dynamics robot finally … Continued
Breaking news: The US State Department has approved the Keystone pipeline as environmentally sound.
Barring any big surprises, this will represent the government’s final decision.
American sections of the pipeline are either already completed or underw…
China, the world’s top energy consumer, will more than double its installed solar power capacity this year from 2012, the government said on Wednesday, driving up shares of U.S.-listed Chinese solar companies. China aims to add 10 gigawatts (GW) of … Continued
Total has announced the sale of its 20% stake in a Nigerian offshore oilfield to the Chinese state-owned Sinopec. The French oil firm said its Chinese counterpart was paying $2.5bn (£1.6bn) for the stake in the OML 138 oil block. The … Continued
The U.S. will overtake Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world’s largest global oil producer by 2017, according to the International Energy Agency, in one of the clearest signs yet of how the shale revolution is redrawing the global … Continued
University of Alberta scientist David Schindler holds a whitefish with a tumour, collected from the Athabasca watershed, downstream from the oilsands industrial development. Photograph by: Ed Kaiser , Edmonton Journal Environment Canada scientists have confirmed results published by researchers from … Continued
The controversial drilling practice known as fracking has caused scores of low-level earthquakes in British Columbia’s Horn River Basin, the region rich in shale gas, a new report finds. These caused no damage or injuries, and only one was felt … Continued
A French inventor may have an answer for the millions of people who scramble to find fresh drinking water each day: a wind turbine that literally pulls H2O from the air. Marc Parent, head of Eoie Water, designed the turbine … Continued
A new, sunflower-inspired solar panel stand is able to turn to face the sun without using any motors. The system increases the amount of energy the panels can harvest without using any additional electricity. “The whole point of solar tracking … Continued
Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in the United States from January through March were the lowest of any recorded for the first quarter of the year since 1992, the federal Energy Information Administration reports. The agency attributed the decline to a combination … Continued
Seeking to quell environmental concerns about the chemicals it shoots underground to extract oil and natural gas, Apache Corp. (APA) told shareholders in April that it disclosed information about “all the company’s U.S. hydraulic fracturing jobs” on a website last … Continued
