When most Americans think of oil, states like Texas, Alaska and Louisiana might come to mind. However, some petroleum companies still find their home in the Allegheny forests of Western Pennsylvania – ...

WASHINGTON-To find a remedy for New York State's persistent fiscal problems, New Yorkers need only look down-far down. Miles below the Empire State's mosaic of cities, suburbs, villages, lakes, farms, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Collapse of shelves would accelerate loss of Antarctic ice sheet and increase sea-level rise Approximately 60% of Antarctica’s ice shelves could be vulnerable to fracture, accelerating the loss of the ...

RANDALLSVILLE - Lebanon Town Board members discussed the pros and cons of pursuing local land management law changes that would attempt to restrict, regulate or ban the practice of high-volume ...

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.

A new study says that many of the ice shelves ringing Antarctica could be vulnerable to quick destruction if rising temperatures drive melt water into the numerous fractures that currently penetrate ...

Most of Antarctica’s vital ice shelves that encircle the continent remain frozen all year round and are stable, but fractures in their surfaces could make them vulnerable to rapid collapse if rising ...