Many have wondered when Iraqi Kurdistan, which already enjoys broad autonomy from Baghdad, might finally declare independence. The present moment doesn’t seem particularly auspicious for ...
A Dutch court threw Russia an unexpected lifeline Wednesday in a $50 billion arbitration case, pushing a decade-long legal saga into further appeals that could ...
Peabody Energy, the world’s biggest privately owned coal mining company, filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States on Wednesday. The company becomes the latest ...
Almost everyone agrees that Kosovo, home to 1.8 million people and one of the highest unemployment rates in Europe, desperately needs more energy. The question ...
Africa’s petrostates are crashing hard. A cool $115 in the summer of 2014, a barrel of Brent crude, the international pricing benchmark, now fetches below ...
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have built their campaigns around the idea that the American economy is faltering. Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen says low ...
In recent weeks, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has moved to the left on energy policy, seemingly yanked by the Bernie Sanders insurgency. Much as happened ...
The world seems to have found a way to keep growing every year without further destroying the environment, potentially sundering the link between growth and ...
Two weeks ago, Gustavo Castro fell to the floor and pretended to be dead, waiting for the gunmen who shot Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres ...
At OPEC’s December meeting in Vienna, the delegation from Saudi Arabia ignored the pleas of some of the bloc’s more economically fragile members, whose ranks ...
Brazil is wracked by the Zika virus, rising inflation, a deep recession, massive political and corporate scandals, and worries that athletes at the 2016 Summer ...
MIAMI — Florida is waging a quixotic battle against climate change that becomes immediately and aggravatingly apparent when driving anywhere in Miami. Endless orange traffic ...
On Dec. 23, hackers targeted three Ukrainian electricity companies, plunging 225,000 people into darkness. The attack was the first confirmed cyberattack to have caused a ...
Iraqi Kurds' dreams of energy-financed political independence are taking a beating -- and not just because of low oil prices. Since the middle of February, ...
A massive tanker eased into its berth in Louisiana last week and began loading thousands of tons of super-chilled American natural gas. The ship made ...
The global market sell-off that continued Thursday in the United States can be blamed on a lot of things, including China’s economic slowdown, low oil ...
Crowds of Igbo-speaking people barricade streets across southeastern Nigeria, bringing traffic to a standstill. They wave black, green, and red secessionist flags; distribute their own ...
The Iraqi government and an Italian engineering firm have finally reached a tentative agreement that could provide a long-term fix for the world's most dangerous ...
A vicious storm surge, powered by monsoon winds, brought several feet of brackish water crashing through Sk Aptauddin’s coastal home in the fall of 2014. ...
More than two-thirds of corporate CEOs around the world are concerned about the growth prospects of their own companies and see risky times ahead, according ...
The United States is finally set to start exporting some of its natural gas bonanza, potentially becoming not just the world's biggest energy consumer but ...
JUBA, South Sudan — More than half a dozen cease-fires had been brokered and broken before opposition forces finally returned to the capital in late ...
DAVOS, Switzerland -- The U.S. Treasury secretary has a message for jittery investors and traders the world over: take a deep breath. That’s the message ...
China's economic woes have rattled stock and commodities markets around the world, leading many traders to blame Beijing for plunging oil prices. They’re wrong: China ...
DAVOS, Switzerland - The 2016 World Economic Forum opened to a gloomy start Tuesday, with the International Monetary Fund again warning of modest global growth ...
Global stocks dropped sharply Friday on growing fears that global growth, particularly in China, is slowing, and that historically low oil prices would only sink ...
Crude oil prices took another swan dive Tuesday, falling below $30 a barrel during daytime trading, their lowest levels since late 2003. For President Barack ...
$10 trillion. That’s the top-end estimate for how much Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil company, could be worth when shares in the energy giant ...
2016 is looking like it might be a turbulent year. Rising populism, great power revanchism, the continued specter of terrorism, disputes over “cyber-sovereignty,” intensified regional ...
One of the world's most quixotic energy projects finally kicked off this month, with the formal groundbreaking of the so-called TAPI pipeline meant to tap ...
Turkey's quest for new sources of energy to escape Russia's clutches may have helped power the latest push for reconciliation with Israel, five years after ...
Last month, U.S. fighter jets unleashed airstrikes against oil fields, refineries, and hundreds of tanker trucks near the Syrian city of Deir Ezzor. Dubbed Operation Tidal ...
Leaders in India have long faced their share of momentous choices with epoch-making implications. The Mughal emperor’s decision to grant trading rights to the British ...
Israel and other countries ringing the eastern Mediterranean are trying to kick-start the development of their potentially vast energy reserves, but the push may bring ...
The fallout from the Turkish downing of a Russian jet last month is growing ever more dangerous, with even the seemingly untouchable energy sector now ...
Historically low oil prices have OPEC so divided that marathon talks in Vienna that closed Friday could only produce one thing: disagreement. At the end ...
Relations between Moscow and Ankara are only getting uglier, a week after Turkey shot down a Russian jet that crossed into its airspace. On Wednesday, ...
American oil producers are reeling thanks to a continued fall in oil prices. Countries such as Iran, Iraq, Russia, and Venezuela are struggling to pay ...
U.S. and coalition warplanes have launched a rapidly intensifying air campaign against the Islamic State’s oil wells, refineries, and pump stations in recent days, mounting ...