Companies big and small are figuring out how to manage the Permian Basin’s unprecedented volume of produced water.

During fracking, liquid is pumped into the ground at a high pressure to create holes, or fractures, that release oil. The sand helps keep the holes open as water, oil and gas flow through it.

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The Lower Rio Grande River is in a ‘near-permanent human-induced megadrought threatening all life that depends on it.’ ...

Engineers have developed a groundbreaking computational model to study the movement of granular materials such as soils, sands and powders. By integrating the dynamic interactions among particles, air ...

A research team from the School of Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has developed a new ...

At sunset the drivers headed home, leaving behind splotches of oil on the sand and track marks scarring the dunes. But Amar said the gas-guzzling sport was not necessarily in conflict with nature.