Social media have been flooded with photos from the beaches on Hormuz Island in Iran, where the sand has taken on a deep red ...

Fracking-the high-pressure injection of water, chemicals and sand into shale deposits to release the gas and oil trapped within the rock-in recent ... in "The New Oil Landscape" (NGM March 2013 ...

At first glance, landscapes like the Great Plains and the Rockies may seem unchanging, but over geological time scales, ...

They’re the most visible remnants of Scotland’s once-mighty shale oil industry. But the vast red piles of spent ash waste from post-mining industrial processes – also known as ‘shale bings ...