This story appears in the March 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. One day in 1963 ... That was Boucher's first encounter with the oil sands industry. It's an industry that has utterly ...

This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The office of Artur ... The creation of oil and gas deposits requires the right mix of organic material, heat, rock ...

Gilbert Grosvenor, Bell’s son-in-law and the editor of National Geographic magazine, asked for the text ... We can draw oil from subterranean reservoirs, but we can never refill them again ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. If you licked one of these “treats,” you’d encounter cigarette butts, oil, oozing trash, and a whole lot of ...