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Is it safe? The Environmental Protection Agency is studying hydraulic fracturing to determine its impact on surface, ground and drinking water resources.

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Renaissance era: Geoscience research – often more practical than theoretical – is enjoying a strong revival.

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In this, my last article as president of the Division of Environmental Geology, I am going to take a few moments to express my thanks to all of the hard working DEG members who helped throughout the year to make this a tremendously successful year.

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The following is a list of the 10 worst oil spills (volumes approximate), courtesy of Livescience.com.

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As soon as the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig sank in the Gulf of Mexico on April 22, information about the accident began to flow across the world’s computer screens.

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High-flying LiDAR technology continues to make important contributions to geological study.

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Gas hydrate, a crystalline compound of water and natural gas, has been touted as a vast potential energy resource for more than a decade – but realizing this potential has persistently remained beyond reach due to technical and economic hurdles.

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AAPG and the National Science Foundation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to increase funding for earth scientists over the next five years.

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You may think you know everything there is to know about the Middle East's role in future oil production. But you may want to think again. 

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The widespread effect of a natual disaster - such as hurricane Katrina -- is part of the climate change forum focus as new research on sedimentary processes associated with major storms are shared..

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Carbon capture and sequestration reduces emissions, but it cannot work past cost barriers without the revenue opportunities provided by utilization and storage. 

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The Paris Basin offers times of both discoveries and failures, from its first well drilled near Normandy in the 1920s to today. 

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Nihal Darraj, carbon capture and storage researcher at Imperial College, London shares barriers to CCUS commercialization, including costs, technology, permitting and more. 

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Explorer Director’s Corner

Perhaps you did a double take pulling the April issue of EXPLORER from the mailbox. What is this? If you joined AAPG in the last 40 years, you’ve only known EXPLORER in its long-standing tabloid format. It worked well for many years as our advertisers – particularly seismic companies – loved the large format and the ability to display their data on a sweeping canvas. For readers, it was a little more awkward.

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