Beneath the vast, golden fields of America's Great Plains lies a secret that most people have never heard of - and one that affects what ends up on dinner tables across the entire country. An enormous ...

The 29 wells Landon Friemel draws from to irrigate 5,000 acres of land have been slowly depleting over his years of farming in the Texas panhandle, increasingly limiting what his farm can produce.

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) – Parched for months, fired by yet another unforgiving heatwave, piled with wind-scattered topsoil and ash, the hard-packed clay of the High Plains resembled less a wide ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HASKELL COUNTY — For a farmer like Bret Rooney, not a day goes by that he doesn't ponder the pond under his feet. That is the ...

Brownie Wilson of the Kansas Geological Survey uses a metal measuring tape to determine the depth of the aquifer's water level in western Kansas. Statewide aquifer levels dropped by nearly two feet ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Ogallala Aquifer, which lies beneath eight Great Plains states from ...

Every summer the US Central Plains go dry, leading farmers to tap into groundwater to irrigate sorghum, soy, cotton, wheat, and corn, and maintain large herds of cattle and hogs. As the heat rises, ...

The Ogallala Aquifer supports one fifth of America's agriculture. But its existence relies on a vital source: playas, a type of wetland that remains threatened. Place yourself in the heart of the ...

A stony outcropping of the sponge-like rock that makes up the Ogallala Aquifer is exposed in the hills high above Scott State Fishing Lake in Scott County, Kansas. The lake is spring-fed from water ...