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.

Concerns are growing that the government’s pledge to ‘ban fracking for good’ won’t live up to local communities’ expectations says climate action group Friends of the Earth.

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 ...

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

Chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council & Professor and Chair Indigenous Knowledges & Senior Research Fellow, Nulungu Institute of Research, University of Notre Dame Australia Melissa Haswell is ...