If you stand at practically any point on Earth, there is water moving through the ground beneath your feet. Groundwater provides about half of the world's population with drinking water and nearly ...

Even as groundwater levels have rapidly declined in farming regions from California’s Central Valley to the High Plains, the federal government has mostly taken a hands-off approach to the chronic ...

Decades after a cancerous chemical contaminated groundwater near the Union Pacific Railyard in Wichita, a plan has been ...

The effort is the latest in a series of recent escalations over dwindling water resources across much of the state, and ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Ogallala Aquifer, which lies beneath eight Great Plains states from ...

Along with hurricanes and wildfires, there's another important, but seldom-discussed effect of climate change—toxic water and sinking land made worse by groundwater drought. Water from snow and rain ...

Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural environment, humans, and wildlife. He holds degrees in journalism and environmental anthropology. For a planet where water covers 70 ...

Los Angeles was drenched by historic storms, yet much of its lost groundwater stayed missing. Record-breaking rainfall in ...