Beneath Australia's soils lie ancient aquifers which supply 30% of the water consumed across the country. The groundwater ...

Digging to Find Groundwater -Building a Water Well In this video, we take on the challenge of digging deep into the earth to locate groundwater and build a functional water well using traditional ...

The groundwater story is presented as part of “ Uncharted Waters: A series on the causes and the consequences of disappearing water.” It clearly shows the problems. So now what?

The threat to groundwater is a classic tragedy of the commons. By David Leonhardt The water that lies beneath the earth’s surface — known as groundwater — has been a vital resource for ...

Environment 8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of ...

The amount of groundwater that has been pumped out of the Colorado River Basin since 2003 is enough to fill Lake Mead, researchers report in a study published earlier this week.

Depleted Groundwater Could Be Refilled by Borrowing a Trick from Solar Power In many places around the world, groundwater is being pumped out faster than nature replenishes it.

New research shows that persistent groundwater extraction over more than a decade has shifted the axis on which our planet rotates.

The study included data from 1993 through 2010, and showed that the pumping of as much as 2,150 gigatons of groundwater has caused a change in the Earth’s tilt of roughly 31.5 inches.