For the first time, a scientific study has linked natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can be lit on fire.

If you spend a little time investigating on YouTube, it is easy to find videos of tap water that lights on fire. People walk up to their kitchen sinks, open the tap so that water flows freely from the ...

It was no chemistry experiment. I watched Thursday morning as Natalie Brant filled a bottle nearly to the top from her kitchen tap, sparked a lighter and held the flame at the bottle's opening. Whoosh ...

But now, a team of Duke University scientists, analyzing shallow groundwater sources near active gas wells, has found that levels of flammable methane (CH4) contamination increased when those water ...