In 1643, Evangelista Torricelli used a tube of mercury to first measure pressure. In 1897, German mechanical engineer Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine with financial help from the Krupp family ...

Over the course of millions of years, heat and pressure can transform the organic remains of animals and plants into crude oil. That's why they're called a fossil fuels — the long-dead creatures that ...

Chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council & Professor and Chair Indigenous Knowledges & Senior Research Fellow, Nulungu Institute of Research, University of Notre Dame Australia Melissa Haswell is ...

U.S. shale producers are expanding overseas—from Argentina and Turkey to Australia and the UAE—as domestic shale basins mature and well productivity declines. Companies including Continental Resources ...

GONZALES, Texas—More than 500 enormous oil tanks dot the floodplains of the Guadalupe River and its tributaries where they cross one of Texas’ leading oilfields, an Inside Climate News investigation ...

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Advocates for the reuse of so-called produced water — a group that includes the governor — have been handed a big loss with not much time left in the legislative session. After more than four and a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blake Muir and niece Jennifer Sullivan look over a tank battery an Inside Climate News analysis found would be inundated in a ...

GONZALES — More than 500 enormous oil tanks dot the floodplains of the Guadalupe River and its tributaries across one of Texas’ leading oil fields, posing risk of environmental disaster in a flood ...