The technique, honed over the past 15 years in the US, is now being deployed to unlock hard-to-reach oil and gas reserves ...

The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission approved several wildlife areas and other public lands for hydraulic fracturing. Also known as fracking, the process uses pressurized water, sand and ...

Over the course of millions of years, heat and pressure can transform the organic remains of animals and plants into crude oil. That's why they're called a fossil fuels — the long-dead creatures that ...

What is fracking? You may have heard about the effects this oil and gas extraction technique have on the environment, but its impacts extend far beyond that. Between 2007 and 2016, oil production in ...

Labour plans to introduce a “total ban” on fracking this autumn, replacing the current moratorium with permanent legislation. Experts say the U.K.’s complex geology makes large-scale fracking unviable ...