Fracking — the practice of drilling deep into the earth and cracking through layers of tight shale to extract natural gas — was in the spotlight during last night’s debate between Vice President ...

For many, a cancer diagnosis is a deeply personal, private matter. But when Sandra Steingraber confronted a diagnosis of cancer that is rarely found in young women as a college biology student more ...

India's plans to scale up fracking operations without robust regulations could spell disaster for the country's finely balanced water security, according to research. India's plans to scale up ...

The Government has commissioned a review of the latest scientific evidence on fracking, as the debate over UK energy supplies intensifies. There has been a moratorium on shale gas extraction since ...

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Twenty years after the first gas well was fracked on the Renz farm in ...

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Environmental Protection Agency science advisers want the agency to provide quantitative proof that fracking doesn’t pollute the water table after the agency already said there is no evidence it does.

New research compares the health impacts of fracking on either side of the New York and Pennsylvania border and found that people who live in areas with a high concentration of fracking wells are at ...

Hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas is linked to an array of health harms, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, asthma and birth defects, according to the latest compilation of studies on the ...

Plans for a "mini fracking" site in Burniston near Scarborough have been rejected by North Yorkshire Council following local outcry.

Above: Members of New Yorkers Against Fracking celebrated the governor’s decision outside his Manhattan office on Wednesday. By Chang W. Lee for The New York Times In a major victory for people who ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to have it both ways: decrying captured science when it suits his current agenda, while ignoring it when it benefits his personal convictions. AP Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says ...