Katla continues to develop toward an upcoming volcanic eruption

The Icelandic press is reporting that there are ponds collecting as the ice in the Myrdalsjokull glacier continues to melt from the increasi...

Looking back at Peak Global Production of Gold

Yesterday the President of the largest gold mining and production company, Barrick Gold , noted that after ten years of declining production...

P54. Pick Points

So here it is the weekend, and I would usually be putting up Saturday Pick Points, and the Saturday post, with Sunday’s Tech Talk in the win...

P50. Pick Points

Iraq has taken a look at the current state of the world oil market and is becoming concerned to the point of suggesting that OPEC should cut...

Coal in South Asia

Over at Salon, Joseph Romm has a column today explaining the deep credentials of the current Administration team that will be addressing t...

Load Shedding, Blackouts or becoming more vulnerable

Load Shedding is one of those terms that has started popping up in more stories than it used to. Mainly they are stories that relate to dis...

P12. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest. The main one continues to be the Russia:Ukraine dispute, the parties in which are going to sit down ...