June 4, 2020 Arctic, Fossil fuels, Oil Putin declares emergency over Arctic oil spill – is climate change to blame? A major oil spill in northern Siberia has prompted Vladimir Putin to declare a state of emergency in an environmentally fragile Arctic […]
May 28, 2020 Climate change, Fossil fuels Russian economist calls Moscow’s oil dependency a ‘dead horse’ Russia must move away from oil and reduce its dependence on hydrocarbon prices as it shakes off the coronavirus, said Anatoly Chubais, a […]
April 24, 2020 Fossil fuels, Gulf of Mexico oil spill Ten years after the Deepwater Horizon, new spills seem imminent Ten years after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, sending some 750 million liters of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over the course of nearly […]
April 9, 2020 Air Pollution, Fossil fuels New study links air pollution to higher Covid-19 death rates A nationwide US study says that coronavirus patients residing in areas that had high air pollution before the pandemic are more likely to […]
March 10, 2020 Arctic, Climate change, Fossil fuels Russia pushes major tax breaks for drilling Arctic oil and gas Russia says it will slash taxes for oil and gas companies willing to do business in the Arctic as part of a massive polar development plan […]
