AMHERST - A professor at UMass Amherst is asking for people's help as his team researches the impact groundwater levels are having in Massachusetts. Massachusetts is coming off one of the wettest ...

Isabel Cameron is a Science Reporter at Newsweek, based in London, U.K. She has covered a range of health topics such as oncology, mental health treatment and weight loss drugs. Isabel joined Newsweek ...

Groundwater evapotranspiration (ETGW) and water table dynamics represent a pivotal interplay between subsurface hydrological processes and the atmospheric demands of evaporation and plant ...

The San Joaquin Valley is the perfect place for farming -- almost. While the region has plenty of sun and fertile soil, it lacks a key requisite for sustainable agriculture: abundant water. Parts of ...

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have found that the water table in a San Diego aquifer system dropped by nearly 20 meters at the end of the last ice age. Groundwater ...

Beneath our feet there is an invisible ocean. Within the cracks of rock slabs, sand, and soil, this water sinks, swells, and flows — sometimes just a few feet under the surface, sometimes 30,000 feet ...

“Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.” It’s a silly rhyme, but one that highlights a simple fact: Humans have long relied on wells — such as the one on the hill visited by Jack and ...

Millions of drinking wells around the world may soon be at risk of running dry. Overpumping, drought and the steady influence of climate change are depleting groundwater resources all over the globe, ...