Matt LaFever has reported on California’s North Coast in print and radio for nearly a decade. A Humboldt State grad and ...

Scientists found millions of Americans may be regularly exposed to dangerous levels of arsenic, and they may not even know it ...

If you live in north-west England or Yorkshire, you are already in an official state of drought, the Environment Agency says, ...

Scientists recently released research showing where groundwater is most at risk of contamination by orphan wells.

The Appalachian Basin – which includes parts of eastern Ohio – is one of the areas where aquifers are most at risk.

Researchers and environmental officials are keeping track of PFAS, or forever chemicals, turning up in the bodies of local ...

About 60 million Americans are exposed to nitrate in drinking water from farm runoff, raising the risk of several cancers and ...

A new study looking at Kingman’s primary water source – the Hualapai Valley Groundwater Basin – says that the basin has about ...

Intensive study in Minjur to assess groundwater exploitation and combat seawater intrusion with Managed Aquifer Recharge ...

Modern groundwater records are limited to just the last few centuries and are complicated by human activity. To examine longer-term trends, the research team analyzed fossil groundwater from 17 ...

Using a USGS dataset of 117,672 documented orphan wells nationwide, the researchers found that 54 percent of the wells are within aquifers that supply 94 percent of groundwater used nationally.