Construction teams around the world rely on bitumen—an incredibly sticky by-product of crude oil production—as the main binding agent for asphalt. But a team of scientists reckon that a compound found ...

Alberta is moving ahead with its plan to sell bitumen direct to the market, authorizing the agency in charge to borrow almost ...

ONE of the bleakest scenes of man-made destruction is the strip mining of oil sands in the forests of Alberta, Canada. The sand is permeated with natural bitumen, a type of petroleum with the ...

Given roads are everywhere and involve some carbon-intensive processes to build, scientists are investigating how alternative materials could make the whole process more sustainable. We've seen how ...

What China stands to lose after Trump's Venezuela blitz, India may soon be building at home.

Conservation groups in B.C. are warning that building a new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to a tidewater terminal at Roberts Bank in the Lower Mainland wouldn’t be a less contentious option than a new ...

Union Minister of State for Science and Technology (Independent Charge) Dr Jitendra Singh on Wednesday said that India has entered an era of "Clean, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s been a tale of two major infrastructure projects. One is the digital highway - the brainchild of the federal government’s decision ...