On oil spills in Colombia.

An oral history of the day oil prices went below zero for the first time in trading history.

A statewide movement wants to remove populist Mike Dunleavy from office.

The family history behind college football’s most talked-about player.

How an undercover oil industry mercenary tricked pipeline opponents into believing he was one of them.

Conversations with the petroleum brotherhood in the UAE.

The life cycle of a drilling platform.

A eulogy for a movement.

Few Americans are as affected by climate change as Alaska’s Inupiat, or as dependent on the fossil-fuel economy.

Life on an oil rig in the Arctic.

A family loses everything in the Fort McMurray wildfire.

He made billions. He lost billions. He was fired as CEO of the company he created. And on March 2, just hours after he was accused of rigging oil deals, he died in a one-car crash.

Three years ago, Shell spent millions to send a colossal oil rig to drill in the remote seas of the Arctic. But the Arctic had other plans.

Oil and iron-ore baron Eike Batista’s very bad year.

On the economics, impact, and communities of the international pipeline.

The United States, which took a forceful stance on other Arab revolts, remained relatively passive in the face of the kingdom’s unrest and crackdown. To many who are familiar with the region, this came as no surprise: of all the Arab states that saw revolts last year, Bahrain is arguably the most closely tied to American strategic interests.

A report on Bahrain, the Arab Spring’s most ill-fated uprising.

A report from the oil boom in North Dakota, where unemployment is 3.4 percent and McDonald’s gives out $300 signing bonuses.

A profile of Harold Hamm, oil baron.

Steven Donziger, an American lawyer, headed up a successful lawsuit against Chevron on behalf of Ecuadorans. Then the legal tables turned on him.

Who simultaneously did business with the U.S. government, the besieged Syrian regime, and the Libyan rebels last month? The group of 16 trading houses that collectively are “worth over a trillion dollars in annual revenue and control more than half the world’s freely traded commodities.”

The surreal afterlife of the once-ascendant Dubai, where “the legacy of oil has made everything worthless.”