Fill up a glass of water to quench your thirst. Wonder where it comes from? Chances are it’s from underground water sources called aquifers, which provide fresh water for most people on Earth. Unlike ...

For the first time, NIWA used several techniques to map and understand the Waiwhetu Aquifer. This is a reservoir of drinking water that lies beneath the Hutt Valley and Wellington Harbor, and it ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cliff Simmons, an oil and gas inspector supervisor for the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection, points a methane sensor ...

Farmers are slowly drying up the nation’s largest underground source of fresh water. Hydraulic pumps and mechanized irrigation equipment gave America’s Great Plains farmers access to seemingly ...

This map is disturbing, once you understand it. It's a new attempt to visualize an old problem — the shrinking of underground water reserves, in most cases because farmers are pumping out water to ...

A map showing total water storage change in cubic kilometers for 14 major aquifers over 15 years based on satellite data. A study led by The University of Texas at Austin used the data to examine how ...

In a new survey of the sub-seafloor off the U.S. Northeast coast, scientists have made a surprising discovery: a gigantic aquifer of relatively fresh water trapped in porous sediments lying below the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 18—Worldwide, natural resource agencies and officials have counted the number of shared groundwater aquifers flowing beneath ...

The Delaware Basin serves as one of the most prolific areas for oil and gas extraction in the U.S. and potentially the world. But alongside fossil fuel development, industries such as agriculture, ...