Tap water may be better for kids than sugary sodas, but many schools have lead-contaminated water (file photo). This story...
New Tests Reveal 15 out of 15 of Indiana’s Coal Ash Ponds Are Leaking
Photo: Barbara Deardorff draws water from her tap in Wheatfield, Indiana. Dangerous chemicals from a nearby coal ash pond have...
Animation of Satellite Data Shows SoCal “Breathing” Water
Credit: Bryan Riel and Mark Simons Using an unprecedented number of satellite radar images, geophysicists at Caltech have tracked how...
California Groundwater Law Means Big Changes Above Ground, Too
The state’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act is likely to result in fallowing thousands of acres of farmland. Local governments are...
Farmers drawing groundwater from Ogallala Aquifer faster than nature replaces it
Every summer the U.S. Central Plains go dry, leading farmers to tap into groundwater to irrigate sorghum, soy, cotton, wheat...