A new monitoring model combining satellite images with artificial intelligence can identify variations in the volume of Brazilian aquifers. The Urucuia, one of the largest aquifers in the Cerrado ...

Three decades of data have informed a new Nebraska-led study that shows how the depletion of groundwater -- the same that many farmers rely on for irrigation -- can threaten food production amid ...

Beneath the surface of nearly every inhabited continent, vast stores of freshwater have been accumulating for thousands, sometimes millions, of years. These underground reservoirs, known as aquifers, ...

Beneath our feet, a slow-motion crisis is unfolding. The world's underground water stores, known as aquifers, are being drained at a pace that took scientists years of painstaking data collection to ...

The Ogallala Aquifer that provides water from underground to western Kansas and parts of seven other states could be the subject of a new federal study. The U.S. House passed the Water Resources ...

For decades, a costly problem has been worsening beneath California’s San Joaquin Valley: the land has been sinking, driven by the chronic overpumping of groundwater. As agricultural wells have ...

How can the increased threat of drought and drier conditions from climate change impact groundwater (aquifer) usage, and ultimately, food production? This is what a recent study partially funded by ...

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Three decades of data have informed a new Nebraska-led study that shows how the depletion of groundwater—the same that many farmers rely on for irrigation—can threaten food production amid drought and ...

A center-pivot irrigation system waters a cornfield near Adams, Nebraska, about 45 minutes south of Lincoln. A new Husker-led study shows how the depletion of groundwater — the same that many farmers ...