How oil spills from wartime sea battles nearly wiped out famous Welsh guillemots
Population declined by 95% in the years around World War II, according to a new study.
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Plastics of the future may be made from sulfur, not oil, putting waste to good use
Plastics are vital. Making them from anything other than oil is good; using waste products is even better.
Strait of Hormuz: if the Iran conflict shuts world’s most important oil chokepoint, global economic chaos could follow
Iran has warned it could close down the strait, through which 20% of the world’s oil transits each day.
Abandoned oil rigs could scrape carbon from the sky and store it in empty undersea reservoirs
This could be one reason to leave these rigs in the sea.
Fossil fuel divestment will increase carbon emissions, not lower them – here’s why
Divestment doesn’t affect global demand for oil, it just transfers power to state-run oil companies – which have higher carbon footprints. But there are other things we can do.
Orangutan diplomacy: why Malaysia’s scheme is attracting criticism before it starts
Orangutans are an endangered species, with numbers falling dramatically in the past 100 years.
Earthquakes from the oil and gas industry are plaguing Oklahoma – here’s a way to reduce them
New research shows the size of man-made earthquakes is linked to how deep industry wastewater is injected into the ground.
Why Israel‑Iran tensions might not raise prices at the pump as much as feared (for now)
An oil surplus means that so far reaction has been muted – but disruption and rising prices could still be on the cards.
Support for Kurdish autonomy is support for energy security
The difference between the seething realm of Islamic State (IS) and the relatively safe and democratic region of Iraqi Kurdistan is a stark one. Assuming that the combined humanitarian and military reinforcements…
The best currency for an independent Scotland would be Norway’s krone
Scotland’s referendum debate has so far centred mainly on practical issues and medium-term choices like currency, new entities’ share of public debt, and membership of the EU. Far less has been said about…
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