What happened: ETH Zurich scientists induced 8,000 microquakes by injecting water into deep Alpine faults to study earthquake mechanics. Why it matters: The project aims to improve safety in ...

Researchers have made the ground shake in southern Switzerland, triggering thousands of tiny earthquakes in a monitored ...

Transnational corporations are heavily pressuring Mexico to open up its energy sector as part of the official review this year of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. As La Jornada reported, Larry Rubin, ...

Federal regulators are asking Louisiana to step up oversight of oil and gas operations after a rash of earthquakes in the northern half of the state, including one tremor that matched the largest in ...

Ecuador is pushing to increase its production of crude oil but faces a backlash from environmentalists and Indigenous groups. Ecuador has started fracking in the Amazon rainforest for the first time, ...

The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously ruled Wednesday that the state of Ohio does not owe a Trumbull County oil and gas company compensation for the closure of two of its wells after minor earthquakes ...

Community opponents were able to raise funds and intervene in proceedings, thanks to a 2019 landmark law. It still wasn’t enough to stop the development. Colorado regulators approved a plan Tuesday to ...

MEXICO CITY, April 9 (Reuters) - Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday acknowledged a shift in her position on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, arguing new technologies make the extraction ...

While GLP-1 weight loss meds have been a mainstay in pop culture for a few years now, they're potentially about to get even more widespread. Formerly only available as an injection, Wegovy recently ...

New York is making its poorest residents pay for a political fantasy. The Cuomo administration banned shale fracking in 2014, bowing to the noise of "fracktivists." Hochul kept the ban and doubled ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Nearly 3 billion gallons of oil and gas wastewater have been injected underground in southeastern Ohio — pumped deep beneath the feet of residents who say they’ve had little say in ...