An exploratory shale rock drilling site where police clashed with anti-fracking demonstrators has been decommissioned more ...

Imagine stumbling upon a hidden vault that preserves whispers from a world over half a billion years ago—a time when life on ...

which involves drilling wells and injecting sand and water into them to fracture rock and extract oil and gas, made previously uncommercial fossil fuel deposits held in shale rock profitable in ...

After recovering from the climb, the crew began to explore the most famous Burgess Shale site, a tennis-court- size rock exposure now called Walcott Quarry, where Walcott first found fossils.

The discovery of the Burgess Shale fossils, high on a mountainside ... overturning a slab of rock that revealed the first astonishing specimens. Whether or not it happened that way—Gould argued ...

An energy firm has finally abandoned plans to drill for shale gas in Salford, 12 years after large anti-fracking protests ...