In a landmark decision, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that drilling companies—not surface landowners—hold ownership rights to ...

Texas Supreme Court rules produced water belongs to the driller who owns oil and gas mineral rights, not surface owners.

The justices ruled Friday that the company holding the oil and gas lease also lays claim to the produced water. The ruling ...

The Rubin telescope, sitting at the top of the Cerro Pachon mountains in Chile, captured galaxies 55 million lightyears away.

Texas is awash in billions of gallons of produced water, the wastewater brought to the surface in oil and gas drilling and fracking. Most produced water is injected into disposal wells. But since ...

Mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems around the world, but remain largely understudied, especially in arid regions. They ...

At one of them I found a dozen or so phalaropes hunting for bugs on bright yellow-green patches of algae. Shovelers and mallards and a pair of teal swam in the open water. At another pond close by ...

Big Bend Ranch State Park in Terlingua stands as Texas’ largest state park, a 311,000-acre haven of rugged wilderness that somehow remains one of the Lone Star State’s best-kept secrets.

Small mats of human hair line the base of plants, helping lock in moisture for crops in orchards around Chile that have been ...

Europe is grappling with an intensifying overtourism crisis, as record-breaking numbers of international visitors place a ...