DRC: Oil drilling allowed in last refuge of 'Critically Endangered' apes

The UNESCO World Heritage Site is home to half the world’s mountain gorillas

Seized by a sense of urgency, Obama bans oil drilling in large parts of Arctic, Atlantic

Canada also imposed a five-year ban on new licensing in all Arctic waters

Spilling the beans

Oil spills can cause more long-term environmental damage than previously thought of

Oil spoils

That, too, for very long

A rug over Bombay High fire?

Legal case against Norway for allowing new oil exploration in the Arctic

The government’s decision could lead to the drilling of seven new exploratory wells in the Barents Sea in 2017

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CHINA

Gas price

Will Pakistan's Kirthar National Park survive multinationals' gas exploration efforts?

Mysterious deaths

Aggressive oil extraction spells disaster for Amazon rainforests

Copious amounts of carbon is emitted when the rainforests are cut down to establish drill sites

Eating into the seas

Squeezing life out of oceanic ecosystems, communities around the world leave the waters contaminated and dirty, unable to sustain the vast array …

Shell’s Arctic drilling support ship heads back to dock

Hole in the icebreaker vessel’s hull to be repaired at Oregon, US

KENYA

LEFT UNPROTECTED

The great danger!

Ecocall

Nigeria demands safety report on oil pipelines

Refuge under threat

Protest against Shell in Canada

UK company accused of bribing opponents of oil exploration in Congo

Global Witness says that huge amounts were paid to a military officer to torture locals and opponents

PARK IN JEOPARDY

Neduvasal residents protest hydrocarbon extraction in agricultural land

A new government policy has made it easier to dig deeper for unconventional oil and gas. But a village in Tamil Nadu is up in arms against the …

Hands off Alaska

The US, it is widely believed, can go to great lengths to lay its hands on oil -- whether this means having to unleash a full-fledged war on …

Oil drilling threatens the Okavango River Basin, putting water in Namibia and Botswana at risk

Okavango River sustains over half a million people in Namibia and Botswana

Shell shuts drilling operations off the Alaskan coast

The company claims to have made only a marginal discovery of oil and gas in the region