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container ship Maersk Murcia

Technology

Shipping has made slow progress on climate change – can methanol help?

Maersk, the world’s biggest shipping company, has ordered eight ships capable of running on methanol, which could prove a crucial route to helping the shipping industry decarbonise

Analysis

How courts and investors are forcing big oil companies to clean up

Environment

How courts and investors are forcing big oil companies to clean up

Analysis

Oil pump

Environment

Fracking wells in the US are leaking loads of planet-warming methane

News

Seafood

Life

Neanderthals feasted on seafood and nuts according to fossil remains

News

Satellites are used to assess oil spills and guide their clean-up

Environment

Deepwater Horizon spill may have been a third bigger than estimated

News

Environment

Oil giant BP says it will cut carbon emissions to net zero by 2050

News

Oil well

Environment

Peak oil demand could arrive much sooner than expected, says oil firm

News

Oil spill

Environment

Oil spills could be cleaned up by giving local microbes extra genes

News

oil spill

Environment

From the archives: When oil turned Alaska's coastline black

Regulars

oil wells

Technology

The compelling tale of how climate change denial came to grip the US

The Drilled podcast reveals how money and politics in the US beat science to create climate change denial – and how the nation could rewrite its future

Culture

Environment

Norway is starting the world's biggest divestment in oil and gas

News

Environment

This stunning map shows why everyone is fighting over the Arctic

Features

Technology

The underwater drones that hunt for oil spills beneath the waves

News

Technology

Camera spots hidden oil spills and may find missing planes

News