Pennsylvania has 200,000 abandoned oil wells, and when fracking is done near them, they become channels for leaking methane.

Ilham Tohti is about to be convicted of bogus charges after a phony trial. His unpardonable crime was to rebuke abuses of power rather than advocate Uighur nationalism.

Canada's extraction lobbyist hopes that more disasters with oil trains will convince the US to approve Keystone XL.

However, looking at the harm done by extracting it as well as by burning it the best option is to stop transporting that oil in any way.

The head of the Lib Dems says he won't let the UK be lured into war with ISIS by provocative videos. There are surely some US politicians that are wise enough to reject that, but the mainstream media don't present them much.

A large fraction of the workers in Malaysia's electronics factories are enslaved.