Beneath Australia's soils lie ancient aquifers which supply 30% of the water consumed across the country. The groundwater they hold can be some of the oldest water on the planet, dating back as far as ...

Groundwater is rapidly declining across the globe, often at accelerating rates. Researchers now present the largest assessment of groundwater levels around the world, spanning nearly 1,700 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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The groundwater that supplies farms, homes, industries and cities is being depleted across the world, and in many places faster than in the past 40 years, according to a new study ...

Scientists used data from seismic sensors to track groundwater beneath the Los Angeles area. Heavy rains in 2023 restored shallow waters, scientists found, but deep aquifers remain depleted. The ...

Researchers in the U.S. have proposed using underground aquifers as giant natural thermal batteries ...

Global water resources are stretched by climate change and human population growth, and farms and cities are increasingly turning to groundwater to fill their needs. Unfortunately, the pumping of ...

For half the world’s population, the water in their drinking glasses comes from below them. Groundwater also supplies 40% of global irrigation projects. Alarmingly, more than a third of the planet’s ...

From California’s Central Valley to the croplands of Iran, groundwater depletion has accelerated over the last four decades across the world’s arid food-producing regions. In many parts of the western ...

Groundwater is rapidly declining across the globe, often at accelerating rates. Writing in the journal Nature, UC Santa Barbara researchers present the largest assessment of groundwater levels around ...