In a new revelation that has sparked concern among environmentalists and researchers, satellite data from NASA’s GRACE ...

Freshwater is disappearing from the world’s continents faster than ever before. New satellite data shows a clear and alarming ...

Rising temperatures are causing water to evaporate and driving humans to extract more groundwater, which is moving freshwater ...

Groundwater depletion is accelerating in many parts of the world — but regulation can help, study finds FILE – A Samburu man gives cows water in Kom village, Samburu County, Kenya, Oct. 15, 2022.

And this depletion is accelerating in many places: the rates of groundwater decline in the 1980s and ’90s sped up from 2000 to the present, highlighting how a bad problem became even worse.

A 2023 study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters found that a tremendous amount of groundwater has been extracted from beneath our feet — more than 2 trillion tons of groundwater between ...

The groundwater that supplies farms, homes, industries and cities is being depleted across the world, and in many places faster than in the past 40 years, according to a new study Wednesday, Jan ...

And this depletion is accelerating in many places: the rates of groundwater decline in the 1980s and '90s sped up from 2000 to the present, highlighting how a bad problem became even worse.

Groundwater is one of the largest freshwater sources anywhere in the world, making the depletion of aquifers a significant concern. Overpumping aquifers can make land sink and wells run dry ...

In Saudi Arabia, groundwater depletion has slowed this century in the Eastern Saq aquifer, researchers found, possibly due to changes the desert kingdom implemented — such as banning the growth ...