Big OPEC oil producer is spending billions to go green
It sits on some of the world’s biggest oil and gas reserves, but the United Arab Emirates wants to burn much less fuel in future.
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Chinese government orders air-quality app to limit readings
Air Matters, a smartphone app that collects air quality information, has been told by Chinese authorities to stop displaying pollution levels that exceed an official cutoff point.
Croton nuts: Africa’s new biofuel that literally grows on trees
The history of biofuel production in Africa is marked with expensive and damaging failures. But there is a new hope for the field.
Mexico protests: how gas prices lit the flame under a quietly smoldering rage
Marching with a boisterous but peaceful crowd through central Mexico City, Héctor Pérez, a sales manager with an insurance company, rattled off a list of grievances to explain a wave of furious protests which erupted after a rise in the country’s government-set petrol price.
Oil, gas conflicts throughout Africa in 2016
Several oil and gas-related fights and clashes broke out across the African continent in 2016.
A day in the life of Beijing’s apocalyptic smog
The smog is rolling in over Beijing. We are about to experience what the foreign media have nicknamed the “airpocalypse” — another days-long episode of choking air pollution. In fact, this is the second one in just three weeks.
Unrest over Mexico gasoline price hike erupts into looting
Protests over a sharp gasoline price hike erupted into looting of gas stations and stores in various parts of Mexico on Wednesday, with dozens of businesses reportedly sacked.
Time-lapse video shows Beijing swamped by a tide of smog
A time-lapse video of smog rolling into Beijing offers a jarring new perspective of the pollution that has been afflicting the Chinese capital in recent months.
Nigeria lost $4.8 billion in oil revenue because of militant attacks in 2016
Nigeria’s state oil company lost more than 1.5 trillion naira ($4.8 billion) as a result of attacks on pipelines and facilities by militants in 2016, its managing director said Wednesday.
Smog chokes Delhi, leaving residents ‘cowering by our air purifiers’
For days, many in Delhi have been living as if under siege, trying to keep the dirty air away from their children and older parents.
