The western edge of the famed iceberg A-68 (TOP R), calved from the Larsen C ice shelf, is seen from NASA’s Operation IceBridge research aircraft, near the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula region, on ...

James Panero touring a drill rig in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, the first step in natural gas extraction by means of hydrofracturing. Similar reserves exist twenty miles north across the New York state ...

Pennsylvania's energy history is rich with the quantities of fossil fuels that it has produced, but is also rife with the environmental legacies of coal mining and, more recently, hydrofracturing.

But is it a good revolution or a bad revolution? According to Steve Forbes, editor in chief of Forbes magazine and sometime presidential candidate, the “energy crisis [is] over!” (In case you’re ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In 2016, a study found that adding a couple new processes to a model of the Antarctic ice sheets made them much more vulnerable to melt, greatly increasing global sea level rise—both this century and ...

Approximately 20% of Antarctic ice shelves have collapsed since the 1970s, with hydrofracturing — where water enters through tiny crevasses and pushes the ice apart — thought to be the cause. Peter ...