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A new tool can show if your water is polluted by fracking
Proximity to a fracking site has been linked to many health complications.
Pregnant women living near oil and gas wells are 40% more likely to birth low-weight babies
Researchers looked at the records of three million births in California and found a disturbing pattern.
Dumping coal-fired in favor of gas-fired plants would save the U.S. a lot of water — switching to renewables, a whole lot more
Burning things takes a lot of water.
Fracking causes massive surge in methane emissions
Among greenhouse gasses, methane is now the second most important one causing climate change. Its expansion in the last few ...
Signs of fracking water found in freshwater mussels
"Cleaned" fracking water is not that clean, and can do significant long-term damage.
The Economics of Fracking: Is Fracking Worth the Health and Environmental Risks?
Hydraulic is certainly a polarizing issue. It's got some economic benefits, and causes a lot of environmental damage. Is it ...
Fracking linked to low-weight, less healthy babies
Run for the hills! Or at least 2 miles away, as that seems to be the 'danger radius'.
Hydraulic Fracking leaks much more often than we thought
These oil and gas wells spill pretty often to the surface, a new study found.
Europeans don’t believe climate change deniers and want governments to take action, huge poll reveals
The flag's blue but we're green through and through.
Fracking-only bacteria discovered in two separate wells hundreds of miles apart
Bacteria are creating whole new ecosystems in fracking wells.
Scientists examine over 1,000 chemicals from fracking fluids: many linked to reproductive or development toxicity
The indispensable chemical mixture that allows the industry to fracture rock and release the gas trapped inside looks almost like ...
Texas family sues fracking company after water well exploded from leached methane
In the latest in a long string of lawsuits filled against fracking operations, a Texas family is claiming damages after ...
Fracking banned in New York state over possible threats to public health
New York state officials have chosen to ban fracking also known as hydraulic fracturing after a two-year period of review ...
Natural gas does little to curb emissions and mitigate climate change
Coal fired power plant in Germany. US policymakers are considering substituting coal for natural gas by 2030 to tackle the ...
US drinking water contaminated with gas because of faulty wells, but not fracking
Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images Stanford researchers traced back methane leaks from contaminated drinking water in ...
High level of arsenic contamination found in groundwater near fracking sites
Photo: Peak Oil Researchers at University of Texas at Arlington conducted tests on more than 100 water wells in Texas and ...
One third of fracking chemicals are of unknown toxicity
Pump jacks dot oil fields between the California towns of Taft and Maricopa. The very deep petroleum would be hard ...
Frack now, ask questions later: bio impact of fracking still largely unknown
Since 2007, shale gas has boomed by 700% in the US and is projected to rise for the next 30 ...