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Rasoul Sorkhabi
01 November, 2025
Global ozone levels show signs of recovery under the Montreal Protocol, with Antarctic ozone hole shrinking despite natural variability and lingering CFC effects. ...
Rasoul Sorkhabi
01 October, 2025
Over the past decade, the Guyana and Suriname basins in the Equatorial Atlantic margin of South America have witnessed the largest increases in offshore oil reserves growth and production worldwid...
Rasoul Sorkhabi
01 September, 2025
In 2022, as the petroleum industry along with the world was coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, Orange Basin offshore Namibia became a hotspot for petroleum exploration, thanks to two ultradeep w...
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Rasoul Sorkhabi
01 July, 2025
Are we alone in the universe? This depends on what “we” means – whether one considers the simplest forms of microbial life, or solely planets populated with conscious, technologically advanced cre...
Rasoul Sorkhabi
01 June, 2025
June 30 is International Asteroid Day, which marks the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact in Siberia. Earth has had its share of cosmic collisions, but these extraterrestrial impacts pose inc...