LAVAL - Several candidates for the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party say they’re open to fossil-fuel projects in the province as a means to boost Canada’s energy independence.

It’s refusing to say, raising concerns that the state’s largest utility is trying to avoid public scrutiny of plans to build huge amounts of expensive, unnecessary, and polluting fossil-fueled ...

To Elliot’s astonishment, when he and his father opened up the rocks, they discovered that these seemingly ordinary stones contained ancient fossils of spiral-shaped mollusks. The Jurassic-era ...

Photo by Hiroaki Aiba, Yui Takahashi and Kotaro Saito (2025) For decades, an “extremely rare” fossil sat unidentified in Japan’s Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in Hyogo ...

"The coelacanth, often mistakenly called a 'living fossil' or 'dinosaur fish' had been known from fossils dated back to more than 400 million years – way before dinosaurs – and was thought to be ...

Irish-based subsidiaries of investment companies held more than €31 billion in fossil fuel investments as of June 2024, according to a new report from ActionAid Ireland and Trócaire. Ireland's ...

Rapidly phasing out fossil fuels and limiting energy consumption to tackle climate change is “a strategy doomed to fail” according to former UK prime minister Tony Blair. In the foreword of a ...

This lineage of terrestrial crocs, called sebecids, lasted longer than previously believed, according to researchers who described fossils recently unearthed in the Dominican Republic that reveal ...

Almost €32 billion in fossil fuel investment was held by Irish-based subsidiaries of finance companies last year, a new report claims. The sheer level of money involved ranks Ireland 14th in ...

Irish branches of international financial institutions are facilitating billions of euro in investments in expanding fossil-­fuel operations around the world, new research shows. The analysis ...

Mysterious fossil teeth found in the Caribbean belong to a family of extinct, land-dwelling reptiles that look like what you might get if you crossed a crocodile with a greyhound dog. This is the ...