The Gulf of Mexico by nightThe state of Texas has become known as “fracking country”, wh

The Gulf of Mexico by nightThe state of Texas has become known as “fracking country”, which is fully demonstrated by this night-time photograph overlooking the southern American states and the Gulf of Mexico. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured this wide-angle image — a beaded string of cities all the way from New Orleans to Mexico City illuminate the Gulf Coast, with the moon’s reflection shining brightly in the Gulf’s waters. Much more recently, a less condensed series of lights lit up south-central Texas; these lights are from well sites that illuminate the extent of fracking that covers almost 330 kilometers of the region between Houston and San Antonio.-DCPhoto credit: http://1.usa.gov/1JGiuOVFracking lights in North Dakota: http://n.pr/1Tjw3pshttp://bit.ly/1CnZB0V -- source link

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