Current transport biofuels are mainly made from crops producing starch, sugar and edible oils. In doing so, they divert those crops from providing food...

Oil supply optimists claim that new technology combined with private development of the world's remaining oil resources--most of which are now under the...

A new study finds that research efforts at creating a hydrogen economy may be driven more by fantasy than sound science.

The Orinoco oil sands belt in Venezuela may yield 513 billion barrels of oil, or more than twice as much as was previously reckoned...

An independent assessment commissioned by the UK Forestry Commission has proposed one way forward: a million new hectares devoted to woodland,...

As we continue to develop biomass as a renewable source of energy, it is important to keep the cost of energy in mind, because this has a very strong influence...

Last week, I speculated on how Southern California and Arizona might fare in a relocalized future where small regions are forced to become self-sufficient...

Many scientists have long complained that standard economics fails to account for the biological and physical systems that form the basis of the economy...

Are environmentalists right? Can Ontario meet its future energy needs without building big new power plants? Guests:Tom Adams, Jos? Etcheverry,...