A high-resolution groundwater map shows how underground water varies across the U.S., with new insights for agriculture and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Willcox is ground zero for Arizona’s groundwater crisis. The state’s settlement with Riverview, the company draining the town’s aquifer, requires it to fallow fields and compensate affected well ...

How old is your water? It may seem like a peculiar question at first, but there are real implications to how long a drop of water has spent underground. Research suggests that the water cycle is ...

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 ...

In ten years, the Colorado River Basin has lost the equivalent of two Lake Meads, the largest reservoir in the U.S., pictured here at dusk with Las Vegas in the background. PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER ESSICK, ...

We already know that humans are depleting vital groundwater resources across the globe. But a new study shows one of the biggest causes of disappearing groundwater is the international food trade.