A leading geologist has warned that plans for lower-volume fracking in northern England could cause earthquakes as large and unpredictable as high volume operations.

As earthquakes increase in East Texas and Louisiana, scientists are investigating whether oil and gas operations in the ...

The controversial process of "fracking" will be halted in England due to the risks of triggering earthquakes when trying to tap shale gas reserves, the British government announced Saturday. "After ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this study: In some respects, seismologists have a Doc Brown problem. In the 1985 classic Back To the Future, the wild-haired scientist famously tells the ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) – A magnitude 4.3 earthquake was reported near the community of Lakewood northwest of Carlsbad Monday, ...

Over the two decades since fracking started near their lands, farmers in the Mexican state of Veracruz have watched their ...

Campaigners are calling on the government to end a “loophole” in the UK’s de facto fracking ban as North Yorkshire Council considers ...