Japanese robots to colonize Moon

The Japanese space agency is embarking on a mammoth $2.2 billion project to put humanoid robots on the moon and create an unmanned robot lunar base by 2020.

Pipeline explosions rock Texas

Two natural gas pipeline explosions in as many days—one in the Texas Panhandle, and one just outside Dallas-Ft. Worth—have left four dead and several more injured.

World oil consumption, production on the decline: BP

World oil consumption dropped by 1.2 million barrels a day last year, the biggest decline since 1982, according to BP, while the Energy Department predicts falling prices next year.

British Columbia: First Nations protest pipeline plan

Over 500 northern British Columbia residents gathered in Kitamaat Village to oppose the Northern Gateway Pipeline plan, which would bring oil supertankers to the BC Coast.

Gulf of Mexico oil gusher: “Earth extinction event”?

A worst case scenario for the Gulf of Mexico disaster is a greater eruption—possibly due to a nuclear detonation to contain the leak—releasing trillions of barrels of oil, and killing the oceans.

Media coverage of Cochabamba climate summit: one reader writes

Did you see or hear any media coverage of the Bolivia climate summit? Do you think the event was worthy of coverage? One readers responds…

New oil disaster looms in North Sea

Ninety oil workers have been evacuated from a North Sea rig as engineers fight to control a huge build-up of pressure in a well that may have the potential to blow up the platform.

BP still trying to settle suits over 2006 Alaska spill

Even as the disaster unfolds in the Gulf of Mexico, lawyers for BP are working to settle a civil lawsuit the government brought in connection with the 2006 pipeline spills in Alaska.

Kerry-Lieberman climate bill wins praise —and outrage

The American Power Act written by Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman features carbon trading, more offshore drilling, and big subsidies for “clean coal” and “safe nuclear power.”

Evo Morales delivers Cochabamba climate summit resolutions to United Nations

Bolivia’s President Evo Morales arrived at the UN to present the conclusions of the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of the Mother Earth (CMPCC).

Deepwater Horizon: the petro-oligarchs strike back

The oil industry—through its media flacks and bought politicians—is mobilizing to assure that the Gulf of Mexico disaster will not result in an offshore drilling moratorium.

Gulf of Mexico oil spill endangers birds throughout Americas

Conservationists fear the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will affect migratory bird populations from Alaska to South America.