As oil has become scarcer and more expensive, oil companies have begun seriously pursuing a politically charged method of oil extraction in Canada. The ­world’s second-­largest oil reserve lies under ...

WHERE is the world’s biggest single oil reserve? Logic will point toward the Middle East: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq etc. Most of the people outside the petroleum industry and some insiders too have ...

In a warming world the most important natural resource is fresh water. Yet, as the price of crude oil soars above $100 a barrel our insatiable addiction runs the risk of polluting 4.2 percent of Earth ...

FORT McMURRAY, Alberta _ Outside of this mining boomtown, where the mighty Athabasca River and the boreal forest part, is a black pit so broad that the yellow dumptrucks plying its terraced strata – ...

In a warming world, the most important natural resource is fresh water. Yet, as the price of crude oil soars past $100 a barrel, our insatiable addiction runs the risk of polluting 4.2 percent of ...

Any way you look at it, sand is Long Island’s most valuable natural resource. As one of the main ingredients in concrete and asphalt, sand is in heavy demand. Every day hundreds of trucks roll down ...