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 ...

How much water does the United States have underground? After years of research, scientists have an answer, with a new, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Giordano Cipriani/Getty Images Discoveries of aquifers – underground earth formations that hold water – often create excitement ...

Cities, towns and industrial complexes aim to quickly pump tens of millions of gallons per day in a bid to avert disaster.

Our water usage is depleting the world's largest groundwater basins faster than they can recharge, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of California, Irvine used data from NASA's ...

Drinking water from newer groundwater sources was linked with a higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease, a U.S.

Attribution researches the influence of climate change on local weather and impacts. We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around ...

While aquifers around the world are low, Beijing and Wisconsin have succeeded in restoring groundwater–and dried-up springs are flowing anew.

Editor's note: This story was first published June 17. It was updated to include a link to the study. Scientists using satellite data have found that a third of the world's largest aquifers — in ...

(TNS) — With water-guzzling data centers popping up across Iowa and a multiyear drought causing more farmers to use irrigation systems, Iowa's underground aquifers are being tapped more frequently.