Underground environments like soil and aquifers teem with microbial life. These tiny microbes play a big role in cycling ...

The Aravalli verdict highlights a deeper conflict between ecological science and bureaucratic definitions, with major ...

The Edwards Aquifer has had a rough year. As of Friday morning, the J-17 well reported a measurement of 625.4′ and falling. That’s 37 feet below average. In May, earlier this year, the well recorded a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Woes of the Colorado River have justifiably commanded broad attention. The slipping water levels in Lake Powell and other reservoirs provide a compelling ...

This story is a part of Understanding Southern Colorado's Groundwater, an occasional series from KRCC about groundwater resources. Read more stories here. As more people move to parts of Southern ...

City of Austin officials are trying to garnet support from Bastrop Country residents and officials on a $1.5 billion plan to store excess treated drinking water in the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer. If ...

ABOARD LIFTBOAT ROBERT, North Atlantic — Deep in Earth’s past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States. Nearly 50 years ...

In this week's Science Snippet, Meteorologist Stefanie Lauber introduces us to these "underground rivers". A 40-year-old from Nashville disappeared two years ago. An ‘end times’ religious cult in ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — In this week's Science Snippet, Meteorologist Stefanie Lauber introduces us to the "underground rivers", or aquifers right below the Coastal Bend. According to the United ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — Gov. JB Pritzker has signed the highly anticipated plan to stop carbon capture and sequestration near the Mahomet aquifer. This comes a year after community advocates raised ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane voters will decide next month whether to join Spokane County's Aquifer Protection Area, which the city has not been part of for the past 20 years. If passed, residents would ...

If you grew up in the Inland Northwest, chances are you learned about the massive underground Spokane Valley/Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer in your school days. It’s gained a sort of mythical status in the ...