The North Sea is regarded as a high tax and "mature" basin with few opportunities for making the kinds of major discoveries still available in newer areas such as Brazil, Angola or even the deep water US Gulf.
Its Ohio River basin water-quality trading project will allow those facing high pollution-control costs to buy reduction credits from those whose costs are lower.
Satellite imagery of the Amazon basin, the world's largest tropical forest and a critical bulwark against climate change, shows a stark divergence in the continent's preservation efforts.
The movie follows a team of American film-makers into the Amazon basin in search of a previous expedition, who disappeared investigating cannibal tribes.
Using Carolyn's head and the wash basin as steps, I clambered on to the upper berth with all the grace of Mr Blobby.
I started at Paddington station, which is next to the canal's terminal basin.
"We have never been under so much pressure," said Edwin Vásquez, a co-author and head of Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica, which represents indigenous groups in the Amazon basin.
After that you add your hops in increments, cool the wort in an ice basin and tip the whole lot into the fermenter, which is basically a bucket with a tap on it.
The town — a gas station, a community hall and a taco truck – sits in the midst of the great Texan oil rush, on the eastern edge of the Permian basin.
Lake Mead lies in the Colorado river basin, which has been mired in drought for more than a decade.
The horrid cold has perhaps driven the mice indoors, where they occasionally plunge to their death in the sink, because I haven't finished my washing up or emptied the basin the night before.
