Natural gas could be used for energy. One of the ways that companies get it is called hydraulic fracturing or fracking. It's one engineer's use water and chemicals to crack open rocks deep underground. And that will release those natural gases. There

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What is fracking? It is a way of getting gas or oil from inside rock, deep underground. Mining companies break the rock using water. This week, the Commissioner for the Environment gave a report on fracking in New Zealand. She said that the mining co

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Black, Foamy Water Worries Fracking Neighbors There is a lot of construction near Janet McIntyre's home in southwestern Pennsylvania. It's not new houses, but new industry: 10 gas wells, a compressor station and multiple drilling-waste ponds. The sta

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Study: No Evidence Hydraulic Fracturing Pollutes Water A new study finds no evidence that the controversial practice to extract natural gas known as hydraulic fracturing is contaminating ground water. The report, Separating Fact from Fiction in Shale

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Science and technology 科学技术 Flood defences 防洪减灾 Dambusterbusters 堤坝除险,以水御水 Some clever, new ways of stopping rivers flooding 防止河水泛滥的绝妙新方法 THE destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in

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