Given how quickly technology advances and becomes outdated, there’s a good reason to develop electronics from materials that will break down and biodegrade when discarded, instead of filling up landfills for centuries. So researchers in Finland found a way to make functional fiber optics from wood-based fibers, that,…
ICT, or information and communications technology (or technologies), is the infrastructure and components that enable modern computing. Although there is no single, universal definition of ICT, the term is generally accepted to mean all devices, networking components, applications and systems that combined allow people and organizations (i.e., businesses,…
Coronavirus has had a huge effect on global oil demand and prices causing WTI/Brent crude oil benchmarks to plummet. Low prices and an unprecedented drop in demand has created difficulties for the upstream sector in the near term, especially in regions which have unfavorable production economics. The debt-ridden…
The global economy has to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 at the latest. As young climate activists, frightened for their futures, meet with world leaders at the United Nations Climate Action Summit on Monday, oil and gas industry executives are conferring to grapple with the stark,…