The price of crude slid more than six per cent Monday, dropping to a level experts say makes future oilsands mining projects look unprofitable if it persists.

Some 100,000 South African gold miners went on strike Thursday, but fuel workers ended a stoppage that had slowed commerce and caused panic buying.

Canada's massive oilsands projects are cutting a deadly swath through one of the most valuable avian nurseries left on the planet, wiping out habitat and nesting areas used by millions of birds each