Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock The World Bank says oil producers are burning off the gases that rise with oil when drilling instead of ...

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 ...

Global flaring emissions from upstream oil and gas production increased by 7% from 2022 to 2023, reversing a positive trend. The Middle East, Africa, and Russia accounted for 70% of total flaring ...

Global gas flaring rose to a six-year ⁠high ⁠in 2025, driven by increases in Russia ⁠and Iran, according to World Bank data, hindering efforts to end by the end of this decade ​the routine burning of ...

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 ...

Despite exacting a heavy environmental and financial toll, routine flaring remains a persistent practice in the oil and gas sector. This gas could be captured and used for productive purposes, but a ...

For decades, Nigeria has pledged to end routine gas flaring and cut methane emissions. Yet, in the oil-producing communities ...

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 ...

A new study by San Francisco State University Assistant Professor of Health Education Lara Cushing and colleagues at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine shows that satellite ...