Friday the 13th was a lucky day this June for the southwest Iowa city of Avoca, pop. 1,700. Restaurants along Main Street had ...

Groundwater is declining across Eastern Washington's complex, interconnected aquifer system, as people draw on it for irrigation, drinking and other uses at a pace that threatens its sustainability, ...

The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence of many animal phyla and the diversification of species. During this period ...

Researchers say holes in the clay that overlays the Memphis aquifer could have let pollutants from as early as the 1940s into ...

When a 10-day rolling average of the aquifer level falls below 625.0′, Stage 5 restrictions are to be issued. This reduces how much water can be pumped from the aquifer.

The White Earth Nation has proposed a casino-resort complex on land above the Buffalo Aquifer, a source of Moorhead's water. A diagram shows the layers of an aquifer, which stores water beneath ...

About 35 miles southwest of Chicago, Joliet is at the epicenter of a regional water crisis where many suburbs will run out of water supplied by the Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer by 2030, according ...

A map of locations with vulnerability to groundwater contamination due to orphaned wells. Credit: Science of the Total Environment The Gulf Coast aquifers, including the Coastal Lowlands aquifer ...

Leif Karlstrom, a University of Oregon earth scientist, and Gordon Grant, a hydrologist with the U.S. Forest Service, talk about an aquifer they estimate contains 81 cubic kilometers of freshwater ...

A lengthy rain-free stretch in the 1950s produced one of the worst droughts on record, consequently, the lowest aquifer reading on record. In August of 1957, the measurement dipped to 612.5′.

“The prime region for sequestration stacks up, unfortunately, really nicely with the Mahomet Aquifer,” Rehn said. “There are a number of proposed carbon sequestration projects that would pass through ...

University of Oregon scientists and partners published a study on Jan. 13; the study said they found an aquifer running underneath the Oregon Cascades, which indicated to be many times larger than ...