An underground experiment with multi-stage stimulations reveals diverse seismic responses within a complex hectometer-scale fracture network, shedding light on induced seismicity behaviors at field scale.
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Cooking with Gas Creates Unhealthy Work Environments
Even with ventilation, commercial kitchens can have air pollution levels that exceed health-related limits.
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Oil, Gas, and COVID-19
Early in the pandemic, people living near oil and gas wells experienced higher rates of COVID-19 and related mortality compared with those with no exposure to well pollution.
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Hydraulic Fractures Are Lazy
The layering of rock masses can help constrain and focus the growth of hydraulic fractures.
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Anthropocene Activities Dramatically Alter Deep Underground Fluid Flux
Scientists call for improved understanding of how our influence on deep subsurface fluids and microbes might affect the larger Earth system.
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Methane Emissions from the Oil and Gas Industry Are Triple Current Estimates
A new study using aerial data reveals that fossil fuel extraction and processing are responsible for far more methane than previously believed.
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Mapping Sinking Land for Tribal Resilience in Louisiana
The Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi Chitimacha Choctaw Tribe has been losing land to the sea, which could hamper efforts to gain federal recognition.
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The Not-So-Silent Depths
A new book reveals that ocean depths are far from silent voids, but are actually alive with noise.
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Candidates Commit to Fossil Fuels at Iowa’s Republican Debate
On the debate stage and at a separate town hall, DeSantis, Haley, and Trump downplayed climate change in favor of energy independence.
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Arenas de aguas profundas y dónde encontrarlas
Antiguas avalanchas submarinas llevaron arena al abismo oceánico en el momento en que algunos menos lo esperaban.