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 ...

The 18-year search for missing toddler Madeleine McCann has taken a new turn as German police have begun fresh searches in the area between Praia da Luz and the prime suspect's former home ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Leaking water wells are causing problems for some West Texas lakes, and Sen. César J. Blanco is working to ...

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 ...

A new study, led jointly by University College London and Tsinghua University has provided the first global inventory of ...

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 ...

He pointed to examples in California related to the injection of steam for oil recovery, and in Pennsylvania, where water from old coal mines has flowed through abandoned oil wells to the surface.

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 ...