Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Divers explore a coral reef growing on the legs of an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. (Andy Lewis/Texas Caribbean Charters) A ...

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A hundred miles off the coast of Freeport, dive boats congregate around a series of oil platforms where amberjack and angel fish swim between 300-foot-tall pilings covered in coral. Andy Lewis, who ...

Off-shore oil drilling currently accounts for over 35% of the world's total oil production, and that number has consistently risen over recent history. While a majority of oil extraction takes place ...

Try as so many private and government organizations might, switching everywhere on Earth over to clean, renewable energy — including some strange sources being explored — is still a long way away.