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 ...

There is a quiet land rush happening across the American heartland. It does not look like a gold rush, no tent cities or ...

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 ...

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 ...

Worldwide, natural resource agencies and officials have counted the number of shared groundwater aquifers flowing beneath the U.S.-Mexico border at 11, a Texas A&M AgriLife press release detailed. New ...

“A relatively modest jog around the Sandhills”—that’s how one TransCanada executive describes the Keystone XL oil pipeline’s new route through Nebraska, which is expected to be released in the next ...

A hybrid map outlining the county’s new border of the Casper Aquifer overlay zone was selected by the Albany County Planning and Zoning Commission Wednesday at its regular meeting. All four of the ...

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, ...