+Oil | December 30, 2011
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Crude Forecast: Get Ready to Ride the Roller Coaster on Oil Prices in 2012

By Bryan Walsh

Oil is the bad boyfriend of the international economy: we can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it. We complain about the price of gas—which really is crippling middle-class America—and worry about the threat of oil spills and all the greenhouse gases released by the 30 some billion barrels of oil we burn [...]

+Forests | August 13, 2010

Gold Prospectors Versus Conservationists

By Eben Harrell

There’s no doubt that recent economic instability has sent gold prices soaring. But gold doesn’t grow on trees–would that it did!—and higher prices for the yellow metal has encouraged companies to go to greater lengths to retrieve the precious element, setting up battles with conservationists.