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As the world looks for sustainable housing solutions to meet the needs of a burgeoning population, Paris-based design firm XTU Architects has unveiled a conceptual design that would convert old oil platforms into plant-covered...

An oil rig on Lake Pontchartrain exploded on Sunday night in Kenner, Louisiana, home of the Louis Armstrong International Airport and only a few miles from New Orleans...

The Louisiana Coastal Marsh loses a football-field-size of land - every hour. Architect Robert Obier, who was raised in Louisiana, designed an eco-lodge to bring people to help with restoration efforts as local groups - and...

While human activists protest the fossil fuel industry on land, some underwater residents are taking matters into their own fins. In early February, BP had to reduce exports of Angolan Plutonio crude oil after an Atlantic...

Like most caring, nurturing souls who believe in a cleaner, better, happier world I'm keen for the 30 Greenpeace activists currently being held on piracy charges by the Russians to be released from prison as soon as possible...

Just yesterday a drilling rig off the Lousiana coast suffered a blowout and caught fire, leading to the evacuation of 47 workers. Unlike the 2010 Deepwater Horizon fiasco, this rig was not drilling for oil, but for natural...

In the introductory remarks to these posts on Chinese energy supplies and usage, I mentioned that one of the concerns beginning to be evident lies in disputes over the ownership of some of the oilfields offshore...

In 2008, two years before the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP offshore oil rig suffered a blowout in the Caspian Sea. According to a new report on EcoWatch.org which was released today, the company...

After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico two years ago — which was the worst oil spill in the country’s history — President Barack Obama placed a moratorium on all new offshore drilling...

It seems BP hasn’t learned its lesson just yet, though we for sure have learned ours — stop drilling! President Obama just removed the temporary moratorium on new offshore drilling saying that they figured out...

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Just when you thought things were getting better in the Gulf of Mexico, another oil rig has just exploded. This morning around 9:30 am CDT a commercial helicopter reported that an oil production platform exploded 80 miles...

It’s been almost 2 months now since the April 20th explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, and we’re still in desperate search of a viable solution...

Watch CBS News Videos Online Watch CBS News Videos Online Watch CBS News Videos Online In my opinion there is no safe way to drill for oil (as it causes global warming when we burn it), but BP and transocean and Haliburton...

It’s been nine days since the explosion on BP’s oil rig off the coast of Louisiana and things only seem to be getting worse. More oil is leaking into the Gulf than expected and by this time the oil slick has likely...