Colette Hirstius, a native New Orleanian, has taken over the top local job at Shell Oil at a time when the Anglo-Dutch energy giant is contemplating the end of the fossil fuel era and how it might ...

A popular museum is under growing pressure to cut ties with fossil giant Shell after being accused of misleading children about the climate crisis. An investigation by climate advocacy group Comms ...

Oil giant Shell plans to boost fossil fuel production even as the company says it still aims to zero out greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Critics concerned about climate change say to meet that ...

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million to 506 million years ago. In this time span, most major animal groups ...

Shell pledged to "create more value with less emissions" while increasing shareholder returns through a balanced energy transition that includes more fossil fuel production, it said in an investor ...

A collection of fossil shells from marine snails and clams is challenging a theory that says the world's deadliest mass extinction was accompanied by severe ocean acidification. Instead of showing ...

June 14 (UPI) --Energy supermajor Shell on Wednesday said it was focused on shareholder returns and the energy transition, though it sees fossil fuels as having a long future on the global market.

Shell Inc., one of the biggest players in the fossil-fuel industry, has acquired ad-supported electric vehicle charging station network Volta in a deal valued at $169 million. "With this acquisition, ...

An examination of an aquatic, shrimplike creature that lived half a billion years ago offers insight into how arthropods with mandibles became so common. By Rebecca Dzombak About 70 percent of the ...

How smushed shells could help to resolve paleontological mysteries. By Asher Elbein You never know where a bit of unusual scientific research is going to lead. Consider a 2012 study about turtle ...