We found abandoned oil and gas wells were leaking methane into groundwater," study author Samuel Shaheen told Newsweek.

Eleven metals were found at elevated levels this year, including one at levels above an EPA lifetime health advisory.

Monserrat Solis covers Kings County water issues for SJV Water through the California Local News Fellowship initiative.

Geochemists at Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences recently found in a study that retired oil and gas wells ...

“Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.” It’s a silly rhyme, but one that highlights a simple fact: Humans have long relied on wells — such as the one on the hill visited by Jack and ...

Since 2014, an influx of out-of-state interests have drilled nearly 200 agricultural wells in Mohave County’s Hualapai Valley groundwater basin, straining the aquifer and putting residential water sup ...

As California's drought deepens, Elaine Moore’s family is running out of an increasingly precious resource: water. The Central Valley almond growers had two wells go dry this summer. Two of her adult ...

Rosemary Schiano drove down a remote road on the U.S.-Mexico border in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument earlier this week, along one of the most pristine stretches of the Sonoran Desert. But the ...

The public is invited to a groundwater workshop to discuss Shasta County water security, land subsidence and sustainable ...

Most new wells in Oregon are drilled where groundwater is already at risk of depletion, potentially aggravating conflicts among irrigators, according to state water regulators. In the past decade, ...