Sustainable cities | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Episode 3 | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered The World

Professor Iain Stewart examines the situation in the 21st century, at which point the global consumption of oil...

Episode 1 | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered The World

From the moment we first drilled for oil, we opened a Pandora's box that changed the world forever. It transfor...

Carbon capture and storage | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart investigates CCS, a process that is attempting to reduce carbon dioxide...

Climate refugees | Black Black Oil

Hundreds of millions of people are expected to migrate from their countries by 2050 due to rising sea levels.

Episode 2 | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered The World

Professor Iain Stewart looks back at the 1950s, a time when the oil and gas fields of the Middle East became a ...

Fracking | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart explains the process of fracking.

How is oil formed? | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart explains the natural process in which over millions of years oil is formed.

Carbon footprint of a loaf of bread | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Dr Tara Shine discusses the carbon emissions from the process of baking a loaf of bread.

Carbon capture | Black Black Oil

Oil and gas companies hold stock in new technologies to capture carbon emissions but there is little evidence to suggest these work or indee...

Carbon dioxide and climate change | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Dr Tara Shine demonstrates how increased burning of fossil fuels since the industrial revolution pro...

Carbon dioxide levels | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart outlines the increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Carbon Entanglement | Black Black Oil

A description given by Angel Gurria of the OECD denotes the dependence the UK (and the world) has on carbon.

Caspian oil | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart investigates the impact of the Caspian oil.

Climate change in 50 years | Black Black Oil

Forecasts an extremely bleak future for the children of today where an unrecognisable landscape of the world is shaped by rising...

Extracting oil | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart investigates the new technologies with which oil is being discovered and extracted.

Greenhouse gases | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Professor Chris Jackson investigates the key greenhouse gases.

History of North Sea Oil | Black Black Oil

Oil was discovered in the North Sea in 1970 and its exploitation by private companies has been encouraged by the government ever s...

North Sea oil | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart investigates the discovery of North Sea oil.

Nuclear energy and Thorium | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World

Professor Iain Stewart explains how nuclear power works and investigates a new energy source.

Oil, finance and pensions | Black Black Oil

Investment in oil companies has been at the forefront of pensions for a long period in time but now are returning less equity tha...