Fly the Cellulosic Skies: Will Second-Generation Biofuels Take Off?

Japan Airlines recently announced plans to test fly one of its aircraft using a form of "second generation" biofuel in...

A Russian Bear is Bullish for Big Oil

Climbing energy prices are a natural reaction to limited oil supplies, and are in fact necessary to "choke off demand,"...

More Deaths Alleged at Myanmar Pipeline

Alleged human rights abuses by soldiers guarding a Burmese pipeline have revived old questions about pipeline co-owner Chevron's relationship with...

Ghana's Oil -- Blessing or Curse?

With the discovery that Ghana is sitting atop an estimated three billion barrels of oil, the impoverished West African nation...

$40 Million Stolen from Nigerian Aid Plan, Ex-Official Probed

British and Nigerian officials are investigating possibly illict payments from Shell and Chevron into the bank account of former Nigerian...

The Burma Backstory: How Fossil Fuels Keep the Junta in Business

Although most of the world's political powers, including the United States, have condemned the Myanmar junta's crackdown on reformist protesters,...

DARFUR: You Can't Go Home Again

Driven by environmental pressures and ethnic divisions, the violence in Darfur is reaching across borders to affect black African and...