1. Fossil Fuels Rise in Oil Tax Forces Greeks to Face Cold as Ancients Did Vast Oil Reserve May Now Be Within Reach, and Battle Heats Up

4. Water http://aqueduct.wri.org/atlas Tar Sands Oil Production, An Industrial Bonanza, Poses Major Water Use Challenges – In 2008, according to Energy Alberta, tar sands mines actually used 184.3 million cubic meters of water — 48.7 billion gallons. That’s roughly the same amount of water that the entire American oil industry consumes in a month.

5. Land Farmland: The next speculative financial bubble?

6. Minerals Greece Sees Gold Boom, but at a Price Mining the Deep Sea and Outer Space for a Mineral Bonanza Use of ‘Conflict Minerals’ Gets More Scrutiny From U.S. China, a Rare Earths Giant, Set to Start Importing the Elements