How our miraculous transportation system turns water into brine
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Salting roads in winter makes them safer to drive on. But all that salt has to go somewhere and it's starting to be a problem.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Salting roads in winter makes them safer to drive on. But all that salt has to go somewhere and it's starting to be a problem.
By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
A new Texas study has found that horizontal oil wells fractured by the injection of high volumes of chemicals, sand, and water contaminate nearby water wells with a variety of heavy metals and toxic chemicals that fluctuate over time.
By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
Another scientific study has confirmed that fracking, the controversial technology that blasts apart low-grade rocks containing molecules of hydrocarbons, can contaminate groundwater.
By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica
It will be a long time before the EPA’s national study can inform the debate over fracking.