While shale efforts have been kicking around for decades in the United States, recent years have seen new studies and discoveries transform the energy landscape, reversing entire infrastructures as study after study hint at the enormous, world changing potential set in shale rock, deep below our feet.

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The idea came to him while he was doing aerial studies of Brooklyn Bridge Park for Michael Van Valkenburgh, its landscape designer.

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Davood Moradian, who heads the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies in Kabul, says the Chinese are treading carefully, realizing they lack expertise in a complex political landscape that has tripped up other great powers.

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