Nanotechnology providing the tools to clean up oil spillsPhys.OrgNow technology may be able to succeed where hard-working volunteers have failed in the past. Researchers at the A*STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) are using nanoscien …

BBC NewsOil history play opens at city portBBC NewsA new play exploring the history of oil and its role in society has opened in a warehouse in the Port of Dundee. Crude is being staged by the Grid Iron Theatre Company, which specialises in productions out …

Financial TimesEnergy stocks in focus in Asia on oil curb talkFinancial TimesCrude oil surged more than 2 per cent overnight after Russian president Vladimir Putin said he backed efforts to agree an oil output cap and that he hoped Opec producers would agr …

The GuardianShailene Woodley arrested while protesting North Dakota oil pipelineThe GuardianActor Shailene Woodley, star of The Fault In Our Stars and the Divergent series, has been arrested along with 26 other people at the Standing Rock oil pipeline prot …

BBC NewsFederal Intervention on Oil Pipeline Project UnprecedentedABC NewsThe Standing Rock Sioux's effort to block a four-state oil pipeline got a lifeline when the federal government temporarily stopped the project, a move some say likely may forever …

Tensions Mount as Native American Tribe Fights to Block Oil PipelineABC NewsA multibillion-dollar pipeline being built through land claimed by Native Americans to be culturally sensitive has sparked outrage, protest and heartbreak among tribe members who s …

The InterceptOil Pipeline Protest Turns Violent in Southern North DakotaABC NewsA protest of a four-state oil pipeline turned violent after tribal officials say construction crews destroyed American Indian burial and cultural sites on private land in south …

The GuardianNorth Dakota oil pipeline protesters stand their ground: 'This is sacred land'The GuardianThe Cannonball river flows into the mighty Missouri about 50 miles due south of Bismarck, North Dakota. At its confluence, a protest encampment – …

The GuardianNorth Dakota oil pipeline protesters stand their ground: 'This is ...The GuardianPipeline's planned route takes it close to Standing Rock Sioux reservation and Cannon Ball, which could endanger drinking water and threaten sacred sites.a …

Business InsiderIt has gotten so tough in the oil patch that people have stopped paying their mortgagesBusiness Insideroil worker drill fracking bakken Scott Berreth, a derrick hand for Raven Drilling, working on an oil rig drilling into the Bakken shale f …