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Shell Can Start Drilling For Oil In The Arctic Ocean This Summer

Arctic Sea IceUSGS/FlickrCC by 2.0Today, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM) granted Shell approval to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean. Once the...

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Greenpeace Banned From Flying Drones Near Arctic Oil Rigs

Shell Oil Rig With Kayaking ProtestersBackbone Campaign, via Wikimedia Common CC BY 2.0When Shell starts drilling in the Arctic this summer, they will do so free of harassment from robots, thanks to an...

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Plastic Waste Could Fuel Your Car One Day

Michael MurrayMarius BuggeAt a factory in Almeria, on the southern coast of Spain, Michael Murray, the CEO of the technology company Cynar, makes an impressive demonstration. A video on Cynar’s website...

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Where The Ancients Saw Miracles, Science May Find Climate Answers

FlamesSebastian Dooris/FlickrCC by 2.0We tend to think of oil and gas as a resource that was only utilized by humans once we entered the industrial age and our appetite for oil exploded. But unlike in...

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Move Over, Canola: Your Next Recipe Might Call For Insect Oil

Science Photo Library/Getty ImagesCrunchy and delicious.The quest for alternative cooking oils has found an unlikely source: insects.You might have already heard that insects are gradually making their...

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What Would Happen If We Burned All The Fossil Fuels On Earth?

Gas FlareTim Evanson/FlickrCC by SA 2.0Natural gas being disposed of in an oil field by burning.If you've ever poured yourself some iced tea on a hot summer's day, you know that that icy goodness...

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Using Nanoparticles And Mussel Glue To Clean Up Oil Spills

Blue MusselsKatrin-Lena/ Flickr CC By ND 2.0If you’ve ever eaten a cheeseburger and accidentally dropped some of its greasy contents on your favorite t-shirt, you have borne witness to cotton’s great...

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Shell To Cease Controversial Offshore Oil Exploration In Alaska

Shell Oil Rig With Kayaking ProtestersBackbone Campaign, via Wikimedia Common CC BY 2.0That was quick.Just five months after oil company Shell was granted permission to drill oil wells off the Alaskan...

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With Modified Jet Fuel, Planes Can’t Explode

ComparisonCaltechAt the top is untreated jet fuel, at the bottom, jet fuel treated with a small amount of Caltech's new polymer.The four planes chosen by the September 11 terrorists were chosen for a...

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Why Is Alaska's Governor Looking To Oil To Cover Climate Change Costs?

Trans-Alaska PipelineTrish McMurphy/U.S. Army AlaskaCC by 2.0Climate change and it's accompanying horsemen of wildfires, droughts, and sea level rise--just to name a few of the cavalry--are a dramatic...

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The U.S. Interior Department Halts Future Arctic Oil Drilling

A platform designed for arctic oil explorationRoyal Dutch ShellThe Interior Department announced today it will stop selling new Arctic drilling leases for future scheduled sales, and it will not extend...

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Keystone XL Pipeline Company Requests Pause, But Is The Project Dead?

Keystone XL pipeline promotional imagePromotional image used on the official website of the Keystone XL pipeline.TransCanadaIt’s a bit too late for Halloween, but in a move that suggests a...

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Obama Administration Rejects The Keystone XL Pipeline

Keystone XL pipeline promotional imagePromotional image used on the official website of the Keystone XL pipeline.TransCanadaThe U.S. government will formally reject granting permission to complete the...

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Why The Obama Administration Rejected The Keystone XL Pipeline

President Obama in the Oval OfficeThe White House Obama just called TransCanada's bluff. Flanked by Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry in the White House's Roosevelt Room, Obama...

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Arctic Report: How This Small Fishing Village Turned Into a Fossil Fuel Boomtown

Environment Despite heavy regulation and environmentalist pushback Hammerfest is the northernmost town in the world. In the 1970's, it was prophesied to become the center of the oil and gas industry...

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Offshore Drilling Is Now Off The Table In The Atlantic

Environment Thanks, Obama! The Department of the Interior released a revised draft of a five year plan outlining the offshore oil and gas leases that could be offered in the five year period between...

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Will An Earthquake Damage Your Area In The Next Year?

Science New map shows the likelihood Over in Oklahoma, people are shaking things up. Literally.

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We Could Be Making Many Household Products From Wood, Not Oil

Environment Back to our roots Oil doesn’t just run our cars, trucks and buses. Many of our household products, from plastics to medications, are made in part from petroleum products. But as oil is a…

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Coming Soon To A Grocery Store Shelf Near You: Mealworm Oil

Health The latest in buggy food experiments Researchers are experimenting with the abundantly available insect for producing a margarine-like product.

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What "The Oracle of Oil" Could Teach a Warming World

From Our Blogs: Nexus Media News The future of oil in the age of climate change Author Mason Inman shares his insights into famed geologist M. King Hubbert and the future of oil in the age of climate...

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