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Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.Over the past couple of weeks oil—specifically, Venezuelan oil—has been all over the…

There are a few reasons that Donald Trump – now self-anointed acting president of Venezuela, as well as the United States – might be so excited…

NewsFeedVideo released by the US military shows troops boarding an oil tanker, said to have links to Venezuela. The US says it was captured in the…

As Ukraine expands its attacks on Russia's oil and gas, a look at the effectiveness of the strategy

US plans to exploit Venezuela’s oil reserves could by 2050 consume more than a tenth of the world’s remaining carbon budget to limit global heating to…

US shale-oil producers were already contending with oil prices at four-year lows. News that they may soon face a significant competitor in their back yard likely…

Donald Trump promised oil giants “total safety, total security” in Venezuela in an effort to persuade them to invest $100bn in the country’s infrastructure after US…

United States President Donald Trump has called on oil executives to rush back into Venezuela as the White House looks to quickly secure $100bn in investments…

ExxonMobil has warned that Venezuela remains “uninvestable” without “significant changes” in a rebuke to Donald Trump’s call for oil companies to pour billions of dollars into…

The United States government has said it aims to control Venezuelan oil sales indefinitely.“We need to have that leverage and that control of those oil sales…