I grew up on a farm in Medina County. When I was young, my siblings often teased me about sleeping late. One summer day, my older brother put a ladder against my upstairs bedroom and set his new ...

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 ...

As a child growing up along the banks of Colombia’s Magdalena River, Yuvelis Morales Blanco learned to read the water. “Dark spots on the river meant that we were not going to eat,” she recalled. One ...

Fracking is an extreme method of oil and gas extraction that involves blasting huge amounts of water — mixed with sand and toxic chemicals — under high pressure deep into the earth. Fracking breaks up ...