'Fracking' in the dark: Biological fallout of shale-gas production still largely unknown

Friday, August 1, 2014 - 02:30 in Earth & Climate

In the United States, natural-gas production from shale rock has increased by more than 700 percent since 2007. Yet scientists still do not fully understand the industry's effects on nature and wildlife, according to a report in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

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