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Amid surging oil prices, another massive corporate buyout among major producers
The Chevron-Hess deal comes less than two weeks after Exxon Mobil said that it would acquire Pioneer Natural Resources for about $60 billion.
Climate protesters worldwide call for end to fossils fuels as Earth heats up
Tens of thousands of climate activists around the world are set to march, chant and protest Friday to call for an end to the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels as the globe suffers dramatic weather extremes and record-breaking heat.
Extreme weather: Everything, everywhere, all at once
A nightmarish summer of wildfires for Greece took its deadliest turn yet on Tuesday when firefighters found the burned bodies of 18 people near the city of Alexandroupolis.
Study suggests links between fracking and asthma and lymphoma in children
Children who lived closer to natural gas wells in heavily drilled Pennsylvania were more likely to develop a relatively rare form of cancer, and nearby residents of all ages had an increased chance of severe asthma reactions, researchers said.
Climate snapshots: When living becomes an extreme sport
Amid misery, humans find a way to cope — as seen in this image of flooding following heavy monsoon rains in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Bark beetles are chomping through Germany’s Harz forest. The climate crisis is making matters worse
Two-thirds of the spruce in the region have already been destroyed, said Alexander Ahrenhold from the Lower Saxony state forestry office, and as human-caused climate change makes the region drier and the trees more favourable homes for the beetles' larvae, forest conservationists are preparing for the worst.
It’s winter, but Argentina’s capital just broke the record for the hottest start to August in 117 years
It was an unusually scorching winter day in Buenos Aires Tuesday, with thermometers in Argentina's capital crossing the 30 C, the hottest start of August in 117 years of records, according to the country's National Meteorological Service.
BP profits cut in half as oil and gas prices fall
Energy giant BP said on Tuesday it earned nearly $2.6 billion in the second quarter, almost half what it posted in the first three months of the year as oil and natural gas prices that surged after Russia's invasion of Ukraine have fallen.
Crews battle ‘fire whirls’ in California’s Mojave Desert
The blaze erupted Friday near the remote Caruthers Canyon area of the vast wildland preserve, crossed the state line into Nevada on Sunday and sent smoke further east into the Las Vegas Valley.
Shell earned $5 billion in second quarter and that's a drop
Shell reported on Thursday that it earned nearly $5.1 billion in the second quarter, nearly half what the oil and natural gas giant pulled in during the first three months of the year as energy prices have plunged.