Basinwide, researchers found, groundwater storage has fallen by 27.8 million acre-feet since 2003 — enough water to fill an empty Lake Mead to capacity. Aridification across the Colorado River Basin ...

Groundwater is rapidly declining across the globe, often at accelerating rates. Writing in the journal Nature, UC Santa Barbara researchers present the largest assessment of groundwater levels around ...

A nitrogen experiment in Rice and Steele counties is showing how reduced fertilizer and manure application could cut down on ...

A team has experimentally confirmed that nitrate, a compound common in fertilizers and animal waste, can help transport naturally occurring uranium from the underground to groundwater. The new ...

BENEATH OUR FEET. REPORTER: FOR THE PAST TWO DECADES, SCIENTISTS WITH NASA HAVE BEEN USING A PAIR OF SATELLITES WITH HIGHLY SENSITIVE INSTRUMENTS TO LOOK FOR CHANGES IN SURFACE AND GROUNDWATER ALL ...

For many communities across the United States, groundwater quietly supports everyday life. It fills wells in rural towns, irrigates crops across vast farming regions, and supplies drinking water to ...