Oil, Gas & Coal Books

The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe
by Thane Gustafson
Review
Blowout
by Rachel Maddow
Review
Coal and Empire: The Birth of Energy Security in Industrial America
by Peter A. Shulman
Review
Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption
by Simon Pirani
Review
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
by Eliza Griswold
Review
The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution (Center on Global Energy Policy Series)
by Daniel Raimi
Review
Faster, Higher, Farther: The Inside Story of the Volkswagen Scandal
by Jack Ewing
Review
The Switch: How solar, storage and new tech means cheap power for all
by Chris Goodall
Review
The Real Cost of Fracking: How America’s Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
by Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald
Review
The Burning Question: We Can’t Burn Half the World’s Oil, Coal, and Gas. So How Do We Quit?
by Mike Berners-Lee
Review
Oil in the Environment: Legacies and Lessons of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
by John A. Wiens
Review
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
by Russell Gold
Review
Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale
by Tom Wilber
Review
Oil and Honey
by Bill McKibben
Review
Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
by Jason Fagone
Review
Diamondoid Molecules: With Applications in Biomedicine, Materials Science, Nanotechnology & Petroleum Science
by G. Ali Mansoori, Patricia Lopes Barros de Araujo, and Elmo Silvano de Araujo
Review
Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future
by Richard Heinberg
Review
Energy for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
by Richard A Muller
Review
Recommended Practice for Corrosion Management of Pipelines in Oil & Gas Production and Transportation
by Bijan Kermani
Oil (PRS – Polity Resources series)
by Gavin Bridge, Philippe Le Billon
Review

Articles

Future engineers need to understand their work’s human impact – here’s how my classes prepare students to tackle problems like climate change
A year on: the highs and lows of a new engineering education system
Why the Science of Teaching Is Often Ignored
This Moment in Education Is Demanding. To Move the Field Forward, We Must Support Educators in Three Key Ways.
The big issues set to dominate education in 2022
Inspiring the Next Generation: How to Encourage Young People into Engineering
8 virtual field trips for STEM education
195 of 5.7m teacher grades changed after exam board reviews
Parents can influence children’s choice and success in STEM major
Wales: 14 schools to add hour a day to help pupils catch up after lockdowns
Fears half of poorer pupils in England could be barred from university
How children at urban schools can benefit from learning in nature
DfE misses secondary teacher recruitment target
Art illuminates the beauty of science – and could inspire the next generation of scientists young and old
Stereotypes in STEM start by age six, study suggests
Career-based classes keep students more engaged
Engineering ‘must change’ to include everyone
Government urged to plug STEM skills gap at earliest school age
GCSE and A-level changes give pupils advance warning of exam content
Would a longer school day help children catch up after the pandemic? Here’s what the evidence says
Why student absences aren’t the real problem in America’s ‘attendance crisis’
Covid learning loss: How the second lockdown widening the disadvantage gap
New Report: lack of skills holds back digital learning, affecting both students and teachers
Practical learning: why, and how, you should embed it
Rampant online cheating is the dark side of remote learning
Queen Mary launch storytelling workshops to inspire engineering students
Lewis Hamilton charity aims to help train 150 black STEM teachers
Increased exercise could boost children’s cognitive skills, study suggests
How Fonts Affect Learning and Memory
Boris Johnson wants to pay Stem teachers a £3,000 premium – research shows incentives don’t work
Invest in a long-term STEM education strategy say engineers
Polymaths at the London Interdisciplinary School plan to teach universities a thing or two
Children learn science in nature play long before they get to school classrooms and labs
5 characteristics of an effective science teacher – from a researcher who trains them
Creative engineers ‘needed like never before’ in race for net zero
User-centric design ‘has to be in the DNA of engineers’
Why programming is key to engineering communication
Citizen Science is Changing People’s Lives — This Project Explores How It Happens
How to Make the Most of Online Courses to Boost Your Career
COMPETITION: Bright SCIdea Challenge 2022
Making blended learning work
To Solve the Environmental Crisis, We Must Foster the Power to Imagine
For Some College Students, Remote Learning Is a Game Changer
Major teaching reform in England will erode the intellectual basis of the profession
Home schooling is hundreds of years old – here’s what its history teaches us about learning through play
GCSE and A-level results have seen record grade inflation – here’s why that doesn’t matter
The Delta Variant in Schools: What to Know
Hybrid learning and the future of STEM education
Poor mental health means pupils three times more likely not to pass five GCSEs
U.S. students ended the pandemic school year 4 to 5 months behind, a new report finds.