“When Exxon funded our lab, it was always about basic science,” Matthew Posewitz, a Mines chemistry professor, said. Exxon provided millions of dollars in the search and development of fast-growing algae.

“It is very clear there is PFOS and PFOA (on Buckley) and they are at orders of magnitude above the health advisory — which is really not a surprise, being that that is very typical for a foam-fire-fighting site,” said Chris Higgins, a professor of ....

Over the course of three weeks, Turkey has experienced several earthquakes with a magnitude of 5.6 or higher. To make sense of the continued tragedies there, Yahoo News spoke with Ebru Bozdag, an associate professor of geophysics at the Colorado ....

"We have a spike in flaring in January for two of the largest flares," Mikhail Zhizhin, a researcher from the Earth Observation Group at the Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines, told Reuters.

At the same time, Exxon Mobil and other major U.S. oil companies are still loath to invest their bumper profits in new oil field projects, instead preferring to return money to shareholders. That’s a signal that even with Russia’s withdrawal from ....

Brad Handler, Simon Lomax and Morgan Bazilian of the Payne Institute for Public Public authored this opinion piece about the work of the Energy Emissions Modeling and Data Lab to clear up methane emission estimates from the energy sector.

“One of my first questions, when Suncor went down, was, ‘How is DIA?'” said Ian Lange, director of the mineral and energy economics program at Colorado School of Mines. “Is DIA in trouble?”

Jessica Smith, professor of engineering, design and society, and John Bradford, vice president for global initiatives, co-authored this opinion piece about the importance of reconciling social acceptance with the pressure to rapidly expand the ....

Jennifer Miskimins, professor and head of the Petroleum Engineering Department at Colorado School of Mines, and Jim Crompton, professor of practice of petroleum engineering, wrote this opinion piece about why simply collecting methane measurements is ....

Kenneth Osgood, professor of history at Colorado School of Mines, writes about the recent Chinese spy balloon and how the reaction to it is similar to the 1957 launch of Soviet satellite Sputnik.

"I found this very innovative and promising," said Jihye Kim, an assistant professor at the Colorado School of Mines who researches critical mineral extraction from the wasted byproducts from steel production. "But there are a few disadvantages."

Angel Abbud-Madrid, director of the Space Resources Program at Colorado School of Mines, talks to Colorado Matters host Ryan Warner about the new era of space exploration.