Science DailyWhat plants can teach us about oil spill clean-up, microfluidicsScience DailyChen explains that the method allowed the team to demonstrate the fabrication of a material with both super-hydrophobic and olephilic (oil-absorbing) properties that, …

Salt Lake TribuneFeds sells leases on archaeologically rich southern Utah lands for ...Salt Lake Tribune(Photo courtesy of Josh Ewing, Friends of Cedar Mesa) This prehistoric masonry structure, near southeast Utah's Recapture Canyon, is on one of many …

Investopedia (blog)E*TRADE: Crude Oil Price on Watch for BreakoutInvestopedia (blog)Crude oil is poised for a breakout from its tight trading range, which presents an opportunity for traders either way it goes, said E*TRADE in a recent blog post. According …

Curbed LAMapping the long history of oil drilling in LACurbed LALos Angeles has had always had a complicated relationship with oil. In 1892, what had been a small agricultural city popular with Midwestern tourists became a boomtown nearly overnight when oi …

Science DailyAsh from dinosaur-era volcanoes linked with shale oil, gasScience Daily"The deposits are in narrow bands that can only be accessed with horizontal drilling, and the oil and gas are locked in these little pockets and are only available wit …

Sky NewsWhy the world will remain thirsty for oil for decades, according to BPSky NewsThe first, not terribly good news for a major oil producer you might think, is the extent to which renewable energy will increasingly dominate the mix of supply. It will, …

Science DailyOil-eating microbes are challenged in the ArcticScience DailyThis was the case in major oil disasters such as the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska, and the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. Future spill will be no diff …

Times ColonistCoastal bird populations and Big OilTimes ColonistOnto a coast already burdened by industrial-scale extraction and facing the accelerating effects of a changing climate, there are a litany of proposals for oil tankers, pipelines, run-of-river …

Chron.comBorder tax to help US oil, hurt consumersChron.comAUSTIN - U.S. oil producers would get a financial boost from a proposed border adjustment tax that would add 20 percent to the price of imported crude, and a senior Texas congressman says the wider …

The Nation.Big Oil's Grip on CaliforniaThe Nation.On the morning of June 21, 2011, a worker named Robert David Taylor was walking through an oil field west of Taft, California, when he noticed a plume of steam coming from the darkened earth. Taylor, 54 …