Thanks to fracking and the unlikely characters who made this revolution happen, the United States is now the biggest energy producer in the world. The fracking bonanza is here to stay, argues Gregory Zuckerman, and the environmental hazards can

Ethics Matter: Environmentalist Bill McKibben on Climate Change - Highlights

Oct 15th, 2012

McKibben, one of the world's leading environmentalist, believes our best hope lies not in appealing to our wallets, but in appealing to our ethics, our most basic sense of right and wrong. When it comes to taking on the fossil fuel industry, Mc

Ethics Matter: Environmentalist Bill McKibben on Climate Change - TV Show

Oct 15th, 2012

Public Affairs: Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power - TV Show

May 9th, 2012

ExxonMobil is rather like France, says Steve Coll. It's mostly aligned with the U.S; it's sometimes opposed, but a lot of the time it's just busy keeping track of its own separate system and really doesn't want to be entangled in U.S. power unl

Public Affairs: Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power - Highlights

May 9th, 2012 13m 56s

The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources - 1

Mar 26th, 2012 11m 22s

As we run out of resources, the human race is at a pivotal point. We have two options: We can continue along the same path, leading to much of the planet becoming uninhabitable. Or we can create an alternative future where we use resources in a

The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations - 1

Mar 12th, 2012

According to Michael Ross, it's no coincidence that major oil-producing countries have less democracy, fewer opportunities for women, more frequent civil wars, and more volatile economic growth than the rest of the world.

The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity - 1

May 7th, 2010 1h 2m

What, asks Oxford economist Paul Collier, are realistic and sustainable solutions to correcting the mismanagement of the natural world? Can an international standard be established to resolve the complex issues of unchecked profiteering on the

The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity - 2

May 7th, 2010

Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil - 2

Oct 6th, 2009

From Ecuador to Nigeria, in most oil-producing countries oil has not brought any benefits to the poor and has often damaged people's health and ruined the environment, says Peter Maass. As for Iraq, although the war was not "all about oil," oil