Hydraulic fracturing or fracking is an essential technique in the oil and gas industry, used to extract natural gas and oil from deep underground reservoirs. Traditionally, the process has involved a ...

On Wednesday, the natural gas company CNX Resources released the initial results from its environmental monitoring collaboration with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, a ...

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 from the University of Surrey. The ...

New Mexico environment officials are pushing to establish limits on contaminants found in wastewater left over from fracking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After natural gas giant EQT expanded its fracking operations — a controversial oil well drilling technique — into the small ...

Fracking can be dated back to the 1860s but became dominant in US oil and gas production in the 2000s. Horizontal drilling and fracking as a combined technique grew in popularity in part because it ...

Fracking wastewater, a byproduct of natural gas extraction, contains significant lithium concentrations, a critical component in renewable energy technologies and electric vehicle batteries.