September 20, 2016
Water use soared as workers flocked to North Dakota's oilfields
Amid North Dakota’s oil boom, about 24,000 temporary oilfield workers moved to Williams County — in the state’s Bakken oil shale region — between …
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April 3, 2015
Ground-shaking research: How humans trigger earthquakes
In the pre-dawn hours of Aug. 6, 2007, six miners were laboring 450 meters underground, excavating coal from the Crandall Canyon Mine in the …
August 21, 2014
Human-induced earthquakes shake less
Occurrences of earthquakes in the Central and Eastern United States have increased since 2009 — a phenomenon that many scientists attribute to …
August 4, 2014
Comment: Energy 360: Let science speak, not agendas
Ideally, science is objective and without bias. But realistically, some bias, in the form of predetermined inclination, is unavoidable. …
May 14, 2014
Mix of acid mine drainage and fracking fluid a recipe for remediation?
In the Appalachian Basin, “there are hundreds of points where acid mine drainage is discharged to streams. … It’s a nuisance that affects the …
November 7, 2012
Bare Earth Elements: GSA highlights, days 2 and 3
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — EARTH’s Tim Oleson is in Charlotte, N.C., this week for the Geological Society of America’s (GSA) annual conference. He is …
April 17, 2012
Managing the seismic risk posed by wastewater disposal
From an earthquake perspective, 2011 was a remarkable year. While the devastation accompanying the magnitude-9.0 Tohoku earthquake that occurred …
January 5, 2012
Highlights of 2011: Energy and economics 2011-2012
Long-term fiscal plans need to consider energy possibilities In 2012, we should contemplate how much the period from 2002 to 2011 looked like …