One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. Three oil wells in the Bakken and flaring of natural gas on ...

Gas flaring is the burning of the natural gas associated with oil extraction. The practice has persisted from the beginning of oil production over 160 years ago. Associated gas is wastefully flared ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

The burning and releasing of vast amounts of natural gas into the atmosphere in America’s top shale basin is much bigger than previously thought when processing plants are included, Rystad Energy ...

PHILADELPHIA—Meeka Outlaw spent most of her childhood growing up in a South Philadelphia rowhouse that was essentially sandwiched between an oil refinery and an electrical power plant. Less than a ...

Gas flaring in the Permian basin is “running rampant,” and may not be fully resolved even after new gas pipelines come online. Texas is now one of the world’s largest sources of gas flaring in the ...

A new report offers a detailed picture of flaring around the world, with steep declines in some areas and surprising increases in others. By Shola Lawal LAGOS, Nigeria — Gas flaring worldwide ...

It has been the US oil industry’s biggest environmental success story in recent years. Gas flares that once lit up the night skies were shut off, curbing a wasteful practice that generated millions of ...