Thousands of people hit by South Korea’s worst oil spill have staged a protest rally in central Seoul to demand swift compensation.
Some 3000 marine farmers and other residents dramatised their plight by displaying oil-coated oysters, fish, anchovies and seaweed.

The United States has blocked the release of a landmark assessment of oil and gas activity in the Arctic as it prepares to sell off exploration licences for the Chukchi Sea off Alaska.
Scientists at the release of the censored Arctic Council report in Norway said there was “huge frustration” that the US had derailed a […]

Scientists have accused the oil industry of playing a decisive role in causing the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina.
A network of 10,000 miles of service canals dug to tap oil and natural gas around the Mississippi Delta led to a loss of marshland which would have formed a first barrier to the hurricane, say some […]

Brazil says it has found another “elephant.” This time it is a huge natural gas field called, Jupiter, which could match the recently discovered Tupi oil field in size. The field has been found a short distance off Rio de Janeiro’s coastline.
While not providing any specific details on the size of the new reserve, Petrobras […]

The President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso is urging companies to treat the fight against climate change as a business opportunity and not a burden.
His call comes ahead of Wednesday’s unveiling in Brussels of tough new greenhouse gas emission limits, which are necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20% below […]