New research shows that persistently pumping groundwater has shifted Earth's axis. The reason is that we're moving all that water mass from under the continents to the oceans. Most groundwater ends up ...

A new study found that groundwater is rapidly declining—but there were also some bright spots on how it can be replenished. Circular irrigation for growing hay and alfalfa near Corcoran, California—a ...

With long-term declines in groundwater levels putting thousands of domestic wells at risk and causing the ground to sink in parts of the San Joaquin Valley, state regulators are moving forward with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sustainable solutions and innovation. It may be out of sight, but it should not be out of mind. Water hidden beneath the earth’s ...

After years of pervasive declines, groundwater levels rose significantly in much of California last year, boosted by historic wet weather and the state’s expanding efforts to replenish depleted ...

Scientists have made the first detection of groundwater beneath an Antarctic ice stream. The discovery confirms what researchers had already suspected but had been unable to verify until now.

Access to groundwater is crucial to life on Earth, but rising temperatures could render it undrinkable for 75 million people within the next 76 years. In a new study, researchers at the Karlsruhe ...

You don’t have to dig deep to hit water in South Florida. In some places in Miami-Dade, a mere foot or two is all that stands between the dry ground and the water running through the porous rock below ...

Much of California’s water supply is a hidden asset: Deep below the surface, rocks, gravel and sand store water like a sponge, in an underground zone called an aquifer. Managers for 21 ‘critically ...

Groundwater, which accounts for 97 percent of global freshwater resources, is essential to human and economic development, but its contamination is more extensive and harmful than previously thought.