‘More drilling won’t lower our bills’: Scotland’s top energy expert on the North Sea

As Andy Burnham prepares to rule on whether to open more oilfields, our Writer at Large speaks to Dr Ewan Gibbs, Glasgow University’s authority on oil and gas

Democrats praised Mayor Zohran Mamdani after an otter was spotted in the Bronx River for the first time in about 100 years, but experts say a decades-long effort brought it back -- not the socialist mayor.

Janeese Lewis George, an avowed socialist who is heavily favored to become the next mayor of Washington, D.C., made energy affordability a central pillar of her campaign, stating that "all Washingtonians should be able to afford everyday needs like electricity." But as a member of the D.C. city council, she authored le