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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

What do Bigfoot and New York’s ban on fracking ban have in common? The evidence supporting the existence of both is equally (un)credible. Gov. Cuomo last month made history by making New York the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: A recent editorial called for a discussion around “fracking’s environmental impacts” (“One-sided discussions on issues don’t promote true progress,” March 11) What experience, scientific ...

There are significant reasons that more than 250 health professionals, scientists and medical organizations called for a long-term fracking moratorium for the first time in a recent letter to Gov.