Portland historian William F. Willingham documents Oregon’s overlooked gold rush era that predated the state’s timber industry.

At the heart of an energy partnership and later an ideological clash, oil turned Venezuela into a strategic ally for Washington, before turning it into a target of Donald Trump's ambitions.

The abundance of natural resources on the largest island on Earth is tied to its hugely varied geological history over the past four billion years ...

The U.S. Geological Survey has assessed significant undiscovered oil and gas resources in the Woodford and Barnett shales of ...

Billionaire oil magnate Harold Hamm has ceased drilling operations in North Dakota’s Bakken shale, citing low margins as oil ...

Nearly six years after committing to divest from fossil fuel companies, Georgetown University continues to hold shares in at ...

Independent estimates put unrisked recoverable resources in Greenland at ~4 billion barrels, with ~1.2 billion barrels ...

There are many reasons why Trump might want Greenland, but natural resource extraction is unlikely to feature centrally ...

When President Trump announced the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife on Saturday, he justified the military operation in part by framing it as a move to recover assets ...

Coaxing US oil companies back to investing in Venezuela won’t be as easy as it seems to Donald Trump. President Donald Trump’s remarks following the seizure of Nicolás Maduro made it clear that oil ...