Fracking is vital for enhanced geothermal energy, so scientists are exploring how to predict—and mitigate—the tremors it ...

A study of 70,000 earthquakes finds tiny tremors often precede larger fracking-linked quakes, offering a warning to halt ...

Fracking, the injection of high-pressure fluid to fracture rock and release oil or gas, can trigger earthquakes. While some sites generate small tremors beforehand that may provide an early warning, ...

US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks at a watch party after a presidential debate with former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at ...

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A new offshore fracking project is seeking federal approval, which critics say could open the door to more along California's coast. The California Coastal Commission may intervene to stop it.

The BLM has identified 44 parcels - 36,000 acres total in four counties, including Fresno - for the December lease offer.

While students work in the lab, geologist Jerry Bartz, a lab coordinator at a North Texas community college, sits at a messy desk in the back office, surrounded by piles of papers, reading reports on ...

New documents have raised questions about whether wastewater ponds at a proposed fracking project could safely contain water full of “toxic chemicals”.

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