A new study found that land use (agricultural or forested) and the season (wet or dry) significantly impact groundwater quality, but in different ways. Groundwater—water trapped beneath Earth's ...

Team utilizes advanced statistical techniques to project the future groundwater depletion risk. Groundwater is literally the water found beneath the Earth's surface. It forms when precipitation such ...

When people think about disappearing water, the images that usually come to mind are melting glaciers or shrinking ice caps. But far from the spotlight, an even larger loss is happening quietly ...

For half the world’s population, the water in their drinking glasses comes from below them. Groundwater also supplies 40% of global irrigation projects. Alarmingly, more than a third of the planet’s ...

How much fresh water is in the United States? It's a tough question, since most of the water is underground, accessible at varying depths. In previous decades, it's been answered indirectly from data ...

Scientists used data from seismic sensors to track groundwater beneath the Los Angeles area. Heavy rains in 2023 restored shallow waters, scientists found, but deep aquifers remain depleted. The ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed a machine learning framework that uses limited water quality samples to predict which inorganic pollutants are likely to be present in a ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

A toxic chemical that pollutes groundwater originates high in Earth's atmosphere, a scientific flight has revealed. Perchlorates, a group of chlorine-containing chemicals that can disrupt thyroid ...

Indigenous people have coexisted with Australia’s vast and ancient groundwater systems for thousands of generations. Their knowledge extends back through deep time, before our current climate and ...