Texas sinkholes: oil and gas drilling increases threat, scientists warn

Ground rising and falling in region that has been 'punctured like a pin cushion' since the 1940s, new study finds

Oil and gas activity is contributing to alarming land movements and a rising threat of sinkholes across a huge swath of west Texas, a new study suggests.

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