Oil prices rose above $140 a barrel for the first time on Thursday as Libya threatened to cut its oil production and Opec’s president warned that prices could surge to $150-$170 this summer.
Shokri Ghanem, Libya’s top oil official, said that the…
Twenty years ago this week, a then-unknown NASA scientist named James E. Hansen ushered global warming from the realm of climatology into the hot house of public policy.
He did it in testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, delivered…
Some people think crime declined during the 1990s because of aggressive police work, tough sentencing guidelines and the construction of more prison cells.
But some scientists now have a more provocative explanation, one with big implications for St. Louis and Missouri: They…
