Researchers find that pollutants in Canada's Athabasca River are not from natural sources. You have full access to this article via your institution. Oil-mining operations in Canada's main tar sands ...

The successful development of Canada's tar sands has triggered a rush by Shell and other oil companies to set up similar operations in Russia, Congo and even Madagascar, a new report reveals. Soaring ...

The successful development of Canada's tar sands has triggered a rush by Shell and other oil companies to set up similar operations in Russia, Congo and even Madagascar, a new report reveals. Soaring ...

Georgetown University is set to divest from companies whose primary business involves the extraction of tar sands, according to a June 7 news release from the university. At the June meeting of the ...

SMOKESTACKS dot the horizon; a whiff of oil hangs in the air; gargantuan vehicles clog the highway. There is a din of heavy machinery, punctuated by blasts from cannons scaring birds away from toxic ...

Enbridge Pipelines (Illinois) LLC is demanding eminent domain authority for the condemnation of land from over 500 Illinois residents to carry synthetic crude oil derived from the Alberta tar sands ...

Here’s a funny expression for you: “green tar sands.” You will be forgiven if you assume that the only way tar sands could be green would be if you mixed in a healthy dose of food dye and/or were ...