Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may cause an increase of radon gas in nearby homes. Studies on fracking and radon have produced conflicting results, leading to calls for more research. Austin ...

The swarm of earthquakes went on for months in North Central Texas, rattling homes, with reports of broken water pipes and cracked walls and locals blaming the shudders on the fracking boom that’s led ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – More than 9,000 new acres of state-owned land have been made available for fracking, as a result of a ...

A leading geologist has warned that plans for lower-volume fracking in northern England could cause earthquakes as large and unpredictable as high volume operations.

Bev Reed, with the Buckeye Environmental Network, holds a map showing injection well sites near Marietta in southeast Ohio. Hydraulic fracturing, particularly on public lands, has spurred protests ...

This story was originally reported by Lauren Nutall of The 19th. ARLINGTON, TEXAS — In early December, drilling resumed near ...

As regulators and environmentalists study whether hydraulic fracturing can damage the environment, industry scientists are studying ways to create longer, deeper cracks in the Earth to release more ...

The U.S. fracking boom is getting even bigger with advances in drilling techniques that are making oil and natural gas wells more productive. Each drilling rig in the Eagle Ford shale of south Texas ...

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 ...