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 ...

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 February 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. It took just over ... armored personnel carriers, oil drilling rigs, and specially designed beehivelike modules ...

Oil Spill Awareness Quiz, Part 1 You know that the Gulf of Mexico is now the scene of one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history, but how much do you really know about oil spills?

This story appears in the January 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Jutting deep into the world’s busiest oil shipping channel, the peninsula lies only 24 miles from Iran ...

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 ...