Closed schools. Work-from-home demands. Price caps. Asia’s governments are scrambling to manage a fuel shortage caused by high oil prices and a closed Strait of Hormuz....
Iran has threatened to destroy any ships, including oil tankers, that pass through the strait from the oil depots of the Persian Gulf to the Arabian...
Elon Musk has weighed in on reports Amazon is addressing recent outages, including one related to AI-assisted coding. The e-commerce giant held a mandatory meeting on...
The warming world has disrupted the timing for plant and animal reproduction, and it’s usually bad news for species that depend on each other — like...
“American energy dominance is back under President Trump” reads a White House statement on the administration’s latest effort to assert energy superiority, in a time when...
During the week and a half since the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, Bitcoin is doing better than gold and stocks. Since the start of the war,...
Crude oil is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons – molecules made mainly of carbon and hydrogen. Refineries and chemical plants separate and transform these molecules into...
In the 1993 blockbuster film Jurassic Park, Jeff Goldblum’s character, Dr. Ian Malcolm, explains chaos theory—commonly known as the butterfly effect—the concept that even the smallest...
At 9:15 a.m. Eastern Time today, the price of oil sits at $90.96 per barrel, using global benchmark Brent (we’ll explain what that means shortly). That’s...
The Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed. Since the beginning of the conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran on Feb. 28, 2026, oil tanker...