Suitable habitat for migrating monarch butterflies will shift southwards because of climate change, according to a study ...

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a process in which oil and natural gas are extracted from underground rock formations. Fracking provides many benefits but has some costly side effects. Fracking ...

This is the first of a three-part series about concerns over injection wells in Washington County, Ohio. Read the second and third parts here. Hydraulic fracturing, particularly on public lands, has ...

Bag by bag—in what Ron Gusek calls giant “super sacks”—Liberty Energy Inc. loaded 45 million pounds of sand in late 2024 from a California port and sent it across the Pacific. The cargo was bound for ...

Bev Reed, with the Buckeye Environmental Network, holds a map showing injection well sites near Marietta in southeast Ohio. Hydraulic fracturing, particularly on public lands, has spurred protests ...

Social media algorithms keep us all hopelessly engaged. The data these platforms gather on us enable feeds to become fine-tuned to our exact interests, on top of turning our smartphones into glorified ...

Oil and gas drilling is now allowed on more Ohio wildlife areas. The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission approved several wildlife areas and other public lands for hydraulic fracturing. Also ...

This is part of a series tracking waste from the fracking industry. When John Quigley became the secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in 2015, he knew that he would be ...

Ohio has become a state of easy virtue for readily allowing “fracking waste” – the hazardous byproducts of the high-pressure slurries injected to extract oil and natural gas from shale far below Earth ...

Ohio has silently assumed a disturbing role as the region’s dumping ground for toxic fracking waste, and the implications could be catastrophic for future generations. Today in Ohio podcast hosts ...