If oil is the planet's drug, then cold turkey time is coming up way faster than we think. Yet by 2030 the world is projected to need nearly double the quantity we are using now.

The Kremlin is using Russia's new anti-software-piracy laws to target dissident media outlets and shut them down.

War has claimed the lives of 2 million children in the past decade.

The rapidly growing appetite for fossil fuels in China and India is likely to help keep oil prices high for the foreseeable future, threatening a global economic slowdown.

A mysterious Syrian military facility that was reportedly the target of an attack by Israeli jets last month has been razed, according to a new satellite image that shows only a vacant lot in the place where Syria was recently constructing what some U.S.