Recent accidents in Tamil Nadu have raised concerns about unfenced quarries, wells, and dangerous road stretches.

There are more than 20,000 abandoned oil and gas wells scattered across West Virginia, putting communities at risk for water ...

ABC News correspondent Kayna Whitworth approaches the source of Lake Boehmer, a leaking abandoned well that has formed a 60 acre toxic body of water in West Texas. Just a few miles from Briggs ...

With more than 21,000 abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells throughout West Virginia, state officials – concerned both ...

Schuyler Wight has noticed a growing number of abandoned oil wells coming back to life, gurgling fluids on the surface of his West Texas ranch. Last week he found the biggest one yet. Gassy water ...

In arid West Texas, water seeps and bubbles from old wells, sometimes carrying oil, brackish water or other pollutants to the surface. But the real danger lies underground — where oil ...

OCONEE COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - You could be living on top of a danger in South Carolina and not even realize it - something some Upstate families have learned the hard way. Abandoned water ...

SANTA CLARA — It’s been nearly seven years since water began accumulating in the crawlspace of Doug Ridley and Sherry Shen’s condo — an alarming discovery that led to the uncovering of an ...

But on the ground, they can erupt like geysers, leak methane, and threaten water ... Older wells — especially those drilled before the 1950s — are more likely to have been abandoned and ...

Abandoned water wells - there’s a proper procedure for how they should be closed up, but officials say that isn’t always happening. “They’re all over and sometimes they’re just covered ...

Fourth-generation West Texas rancher Schuyler Wight surveys an abandoned oil well ... have linked injections to well blowouts — sudden eruptions of water and gas that migrate underground until ...