After months of stalemate, glimmers of hope have emerged for consensus on a new plan to manage the shrinking Colorado River.

Floods are some of the most devastating natural disasters communities in the United States face, causing billions of dollars ...

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

Health and Science Map: NASA satellite data show the Earth is running out of groundwater Twenty-one of the world’s 37 largest aquifers have passed their sustainability tipping points, meaning ...

The Lehigh Valley set a new precipitation record for May 1 through 28, recording 8.71 inches of rain during the period, according to data from the National Weather Service. The previous record of ...

Perrone said the finding that about one-in-30 wells were dry from 2013-2015 is a conservative estimate. It may be an underestimate, she said, because they based their analysis on the bottom of ...

To apply learnings from the China Geothermal Map, the China Coal Hydrology Bureau located and drilled a high-temperature geothermal well at a depth of 1740 meters in Tanyang Village in January 2025.

When oil wells, such as this one in Alberta, Canada, are abandoned and left unplugged they become “orphan wells,” that pose risks to nearby groundwater. Credit: Jason Woodhead, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 ...

A map of locations with vulnerability to groundwater contamination due to orphaned wells. Credit: Science of the Total Environment The Gulf Coast aquifers, including the Coastal Lowlands aquifer ...

“No matter where you live across the nation, you can go look at what’s happening in your backyard, how your aquifers compare to other aquifers and what the threats are,” said Gianoutsos.

Orphan wells pockmark major U.S. aquifers The researchers mapped the locations of orphaned wells over principal and secondary aquifers using Geographic Information Systems datasets. They then analyzed ...

That led them to the California Coastal aquifers and the Central Valley, where a high density of old orphan wells overlaps with highly urbanized areas and intensive groundwater use for agriculture.