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Research that reveals what lies at the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean -- the Mariana Trench

Unique oil-eating bacteria found in world’s deepest ocean trench, Mariana Trench

Angelenos play below derricks at Huntington Beach pier, c. 1930-40. In the early decades of the twentieth century, LA residents accepted ground subsidence and small earthquakes as the cost of producing oil. But discontent began to rumble in the late 1930s. Rapid exploitation of Wilmington, one of the largest oil fields in California, and the Huntington Beach field caused Long Beach harbor to sink, buckling railway lines and forcing the city to build higher piers. Credit: Orange County Archives

Oil extraction likely triggered mid-century earthquakes in L.A.

Rig "An oil platform"

Location of wastewater disposal drives induced seismicity at US oil sites

A new study by an SMU geophysical team found alarming rates of ground movement at various locations across a 4000-square-mile area of four Texas counties.

Radar images show large swath of Texas oil patch is heaving...

Rig "An oil platform"

Raton Basin earthquakes linked to oil and gas fluid injections

Study signals new hope for Rockall oil and gas exploration

New Scientific Approach Assesses Land Recovery Following Oil and Gas Drilling

The Deepwater Horizon aftermath

Technology converts human waste into bio-based fuel

Some Los Angeles earthquakes possibly triggered by oil production in early...

Scientists expect to calculate amount of fuel inside Earth by 2025

Researchers have found a way to make shale oil extraction cheaper

Geohazard: Giant sinkholes near West Texas oil patch towns are growing—as...

Hydraulic fracturing chemical spills on agricultural land need scrutiny

‘Dirty Blizzard’ sent 2010 Gulf oil spill pollution to seafloor

Barium leaches directly from fracked rocks

Ecological method for cleaning oil from lakes

Sweet technique finds cause of sour oil and gas

Photosynthesis more ancient than thought, and most living things could do...

New evidence about the Gulf of Mexico’s past

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