As Dan Dicker is away this week, please find below a guest piece provided by our new Managing Editor Chris Dalby. In the final hours,…
The numbers that define China’s progress over the last 50 years are staggering. Over 300 million people lifted out of poverty. Over 160 cities with…
The Republican Party has made no bones of the fact that, now it controls Congress, it will be seeking to scale back environmental regulations in…
Halliburton’s takeover of Baker Hughes is setting out to be the oil and gas merger of the year. One of the largest such deals in…
News about the US-China climate change deal was met with an equal measure of praise and doubt. Many observers cheered the fact that the world’s…
For a country of the size and complexity of India, there can be no easy solution to a problem as fundamental as giving the whole…
The Republican Party has a very clear vision for America’s energy independence, which could become America’s vision for energy independence if polls suggesting the GOP…
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Canadian Premier Stephen have just landed near the bottom of a ranking of the world’s worst climate villains. The…
French President Francois Hollande has promised to limit the growth of the country’s nuclear power, many older reactors have been targeted for decommissioning, and Greenpeace…
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s energy policy seems to stick to one iron-clad mantra: Whatever the United Nations advises, do the exact opposite. While this…
In June 2014, computer files captured from a courier for the Islamic State shortly after the fall of Mosul revealed that the group had assets…
The last few months have not exactly been kind to climate change deniers. In May, a U.S. television show with one of the fastest growing…
William Wallace must be awfully disappointed. The Scottish voted to remain in the United Kingdom, albeit in exchange for a very nice care package of…
It has been almost two years since Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, announced his own dream for the transportation of the future.…
Any company will tell you that panic starts to set in once the confidence of the board or of investors begins to wane. This is…
The statistics of the African Development Bank are terrifying: Africa’s total installed power generation capacity is 147 gigawatts. That’s about the same amount as Belgium’s…
The debate over which energy storage technology will prove to be the best in the long-term is woefully misguided.Many technologies have been tested in the…
The world’s foremost economic authorities are divided as to whether the planting of conventional crops to produce biofuels makes sense. Some say that the amount…
A few months ago, and without much fanfare, Fairbanks, Alaska hoisted a large, oval, 35-foot diameter wind turbine to an altitude of 1,000 feet over…
While Germany is breaking world records for the amount of sustainable energy it uses every year, German energy customers are breaking European records for the…