Alpine rain and snow take much longer to percolate into western U.S. streams than previously thought, adding complexity to ...

Ever wondered if human ingenuity could literally shift our planet? Turns out, it can – albeit ever so slightly.

More information: R. L. Tyne et al, Passive degassing of lithospheric volatiles recorded in shallow young groundwater, Nature Geoscience (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-025-01702-7 ...

The spread of buildings and paved roads reduces the ground’s ability to absorb water, diminishing groundwater recharge and ...

During the last ice age, storms soaked the now-arid Southwestern U.S., while today's rainy Pacific Northwest remained relatively dry. As global temperatures rose and ice sheets retreated, those storms ...

Earth isn’t standing as straight as it used to—something has actually made our planet tilt, and it’s not great news.

Move beyond lithium and its dominance in semiconductors. There exists a group of 17 other metals with mostly difficult-to-pronounce names but whose products are widespread around us. Here’s a full ...

In this fascinating build, we dig 6 meters deep into the earth to find groundwater—and then use that discovery to create a functional and beautiful underground house built completely by hand using ...

Curiosity finds strange boxwork ridges on Mars that hint at ancient underground water. Scientists are now drilling for ...

Groundwater records from the last ice age indicate that aquifers in the U.S. Southwest are more sensitive to global warming than aquifers in the Pacific Northwest.

Jay Famiglietti, a global futurist professor at Arizona State University and one of the authors of the research, said ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...