The tragic floods that ravaged Texas in early July have taken many lives, including the great granddaughter of the late oil magnate William Herbert Hunt, nine-year-old Janie Hunt. Janie was supposedly ...

In the dead of night on a beach in Suriname's capital Paramaribo, a group of just-hatched baby sea turtles clamber out of ...

The researchers have studied the geochemical composition and conditions of formation of Domanik deposits (Semiluksk horizon) in the Volga-Ural oil and gas province, which made it possible to determine ...

Pensacola Beach officials shared concerns about tourism and ecological damage if new oil and gas operations are greenlit for the Florida Gulf.

Attorneys general from nine U.S. states sued the Trump administration on Thursday to stop future seismic tests for oil and gas deposits off the East Coast, joining a lawsuit from environmentalists ...

The USGS has identified 473 million barrels of oil and 27 trillion cubic feet of gas in the Mowry Composite system across Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah.

The assessment includes a geologic grouping in southwestern Wyoming and parts of Colorado and Utah containing deposits of a shallow, prehistoric ocean which covered most of the Rocky Mountain region.

This video explains the difference between coal and crude oil formation, the role of the ancient Tethys Ocean, and how microbes and plankton contributed to massive oil deposits.

As Norway Considers Deep-Sea Mining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in ...

The Department of Interior Thursday released an analysis of fossil fuel deposits showing an additional 1.30 billion barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico's Outer Continental shelf.

Investigating oil spills and dump sites is not easy work. Because of the equipment needed, and where the dump sites reside, it is common that many dump sites go unnoticed for years, including the ...