A natural gas drilling rig in Wyoming. The EPA says that fracking may have resulted in groundwater contamination in that state.National Geographic / Getty Images News If you report on the ...

Talk about a big fracking pain: activities that involve injecting fluids into the ground — for hydraulic fracturing (aka fracking), geothermal energy projects or wastewater disposal — occasionally ...

Communities with high proportions of lower-income and elderly people in rural areas are the most vulnerable to groundwater pollution from hydraulic fracturing in the Appalachian Basin, according to a ...

Testing in a limited number of shallow aquifers near fracking sites in southwestern Pennsylvania found low levels of radium overall, but there aren’t yet enough samples to draw firm conclusions about ...

Over the course of millions of years, heat and pressure can transform the organic remains of animals and plants into crude oil. That's why they're called a fossil fuels — the long-dead creatures that ...

Any industrial activity near water reserves could, in principle, cause contamination. Isotope hydrology offers a unique combination of methods to monitor water quality and trace the source of ...

CUERO, Texas – The city of Cuero is thriving. The oil and gas boom on the Eagle Ford Shale in this area has provided an economic lift this community badly need when the drought devastated the ...

KS3/GCSE Geography. A student investigates the pros and cons of fracking by speaking to advocates and opponents.

Contact information for the researchers: Mario Soriano Jr., Princeton University, [email protected] (UTC-4 hours) Nicole Deziel, Yale University, [email protected] (UTC-4 hours) James Saiers, Yale ...