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The previous post on oil field contracts in Iraq points up what I believe is one of the underlying drivers of the Iraq war and the American...

When a Canadian oil exploration and oil services company won a major contract to develop an Iraqi oil field, the Iraqi interim government de...

Journalist Bill Moyers was presented with the Global Environment Citizen Award by the Harvard Medical School recently. He describes himsel...

Microscopic particles that are part of our mix of air pollution are some of the most damaging because they avoid the natural filtering mecha...

Not surprisingly energy banker Matt Simmons thinks energy prices need to be much higher. In fact, he has a number in mind: $182 a barrel f...

How can it be that Germany is becoming the world's solar energy mecca? Answer: government determination. The German government has b...

I asked in a previous post what was keeping America's chief climate scientist up at night. One answer was a set of readings that show ...

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has a wonderfully clear summary (complete with animation) about how an abrupt cooling would take pla...

Few Americans realize that right now in farmers' fields genetically altered corn and soybeans are producing drugs, hormones and industri...

Once again the United States wants to talk more about global warming. American negotiators at the Buenos Aires climate conference last wee...