For years, fracking has been a hot topic of debate in the United States. The process works by drilling deep below the earth’s surface and extracting gas by injecting a high-pressure water mixture that ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Theenvironmental effects of shale gas are varied—wide ranges of ...

The research adds to other environmental issue relating to hydraulic fracturing. The fracking process involves the injection of millions of gallons of freshwater and chemicals into shale. While most ...

On the banks of Colombia’s largest river, the town and the wider municipality of Puerto Wilches sit amid a maze of wetlands and floodplain lakes in the Middle Magdalena Valley. Residents spend ...

A study from researchers at Miami University in Ohio—recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Energy Economics—provides new evidence that the hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as “fracking”) ...