Sydney Morning Heraldoil's plunge is good news for most of usSydney Morning HeraldInvestors have been very excited for the past several years about the promise of tight oil, which is extracted by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of rock formations wh …

Wall Street Journal$15 Oil? It's Already Here, in CanadaWall Street JournalCrude prices dipped below $30 a barrel this week for the first time in years. But for many producers, $30 oil already is a thing of the past. Most barrels of oil sold globally g …

Scottish Housing NewsNew initiative builds on engineering past to tackle fuel povertyScottish Housing NewsCommissioned by the Low Carbon Infrastructure Task Force, which includes key figures from engineering, finance, construction, academia, public sector, …

Montana StandardEngineering students extend helping hand to Kenyan villageMontana StandardUsing skills learned in their engineering studies at Montana State University-Bozeman, the college students designed and installed a rainwater catchment system at a s …

Wall Street JournalForecasting China's Oil Buying Grows HarderWall Street JournalDALIAN, China—Just northeast of this coastal city, the highway ends where guards block entry to one of China's strategic oil reserves. Behind a gate, mountains hide th …

Harvard GazetteBrown named to National Academy of EngineeringHarvard GazetteHe received a congratulatory email out of the blue from a Nigerian student studying electrical engineering in Korea — an indication, Brown said, that our lives can have an impact t …