SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. — Early last month, Jeanne Fair, 62, got her first hot meals delivered to her home in this lake town in the sparsely populated southwestern part of the state. Then after two deliveries the meals stopped because

U.S. investor Jim Rogers has said that the decline in known oil reserves across the world is the main reason behind the skyrocketing oil prices that have already topped 145 U.S. dollars a barrel. While admitting that factors driving up

Petroleos Mexicanos, the state-owned Mexican oil company, may begin construction of a $7-billion refinery by the end of 2010 to reduce imports of gasoline and diesel fuel. A study has been commissioned to determine the site of the new plant,

Just as things were really heating up in the solar energy sector, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) pulled the plug on new solar power plants. Last week the New York Times reported that "the federal government has placed

We are trying to produce about 3 million barrels of oil daily by next year," says the minister in conversation with Die Welt. In some Western media there has already been talk about 4 million barrels (159 litres each) of

In its newly released annual report, the ESA notes that over the year, 21,932 tonnes of natural uranium (tU) delivered to the EU was well above the 19,774 tU loaded into reactors, meaning that inventories are being rebuilt. ESA says

It is not about the "war on terror". It is not about weapons of mass destruction. It is not about "freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people", or to the "Afghan people". It is not about "Islamofascism". It is not

LONDON (Reuters) - Oil's meteoric rise since the start of the year to nearly $150 has distressed consumers and policy makers the world over, but the stark reality is prices are likely to rise higher still. For two decades, prices

The number of migrants is rising so quickly that it might destabilize the world. The IOM's general meeting in November defined "climate refugees" in a broader sense to include people who have resettled within a country. The organization called for

A recent report from the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-operative Research Centre claimed that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is at its highest level in 650,000 years, and possibly 23 million years, and half has been dissolved in the oceans,

Oil has zoomed to surreal levels, briefly hitting a record high of $145.85 a barrel in trading Thursday morning. That’s more than double a year ago, despite increasing fuel-conservation measures and a sputtering U.S. economy reeling from six straight months

PARIS, July 4 (Reuters) - A key European Union lawmaker said on Friday he had broad parliamentary backing to propose changing the EU's target for biofuels so that 4 percent of road transport fuels come from renewable sources by 2015.

The fundamental lessons for a country suddenly facing an energy crisis and an uncertain economy ought to be clear enough. Drive slower -- when you have to drive at all, that is. Seek alternative forms of transportation. Turn off the

Sydney - ]The stormclouds are gathering. Our market has plunged below 5000 for the first time in two years, oil prices are soaring, America is in (unofficial) recession and the Reserve Bank is clearly worried about the home front. After

PARIS (AFP) — The head of the UN's Nobel-winning panel of climate scientists on Friday said only seven years remained for stabilising emissions of global-warming gases at a level widely considered safe. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on

Climate change will worsen the world's food crisis, the UN has forecast. Food and global warming are interconnected, said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change....

The Nation: In The Face Of The Oil-Price Crisis, America Had Better Come Up With A Plan Airlines are cutting back on water for plane toilets to save weight and fuel. They had better come up with a better business

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off Florida as cost prohibitive. Politicians feared even the slightest sign of support would be career suicide. No more. Record crude oil prices are fueling support for

BRUSSELS, Belgium: The European Union will ignore critics who accuse it of helping to boost food prices by embracing an ambitious and binding target for the use of biofuels, officials said Friday. The European Commission is sticking to its proposal

MADRID (AFP) — The UN's top climate change official said Thursday that record oil prices, which have surged to 146 dollars a barrel, were positive for the environment. "I think they are a net positive. First of all you see