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According to a leaked powerpoint from the Environmental Protection Agency, fracking has caused “significant damage” to drinking water aquifers in the town of Dimock in Pennsylvania in the US.

The oil industry in Canada is struggling to contain an oil spill from underground tar sands mining.

Oil giant BP continues to be tormented by the legacy of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Fracking has led to a boom in sand mining in the US, with nearly 50 million tons of sand mined in 2011.

The continued frenzy over fracking is ignoring new scientific research which shows groundwater contamination near wells.

In California, the industry's use of toxic acids is set to rocket, but the practice is unregulated.

The State of California is fast becoming the front line in America’s fracking wars.

The Canadian environmental watchdog, the Pembina Institute, publishes a report arguing that “very little progress" has been made on 19 key recommended policy improvements for Canada's dirty tar sands.

One of Canada’s most famous scientists has launched a scathing attack on the country’s politicians, claiming that labelling the tar sands as environmentally harmless is “lies”.

Three years on, BP's spill is still having an devastating legacy in the Gulf