Successful test of a 5300-metre-deep shale gas well in Sichuan marks a key technical leap in China’s shale development ...

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Enormous "mud waves" buried under the Atlantic seabed formed 117 million years ago as the Atlantic Ocean opened up.

We visited the deepest pit in America and did what anyone would be tempted to do – dropped a rock to see what happens. In ...