Groundwater provides drinking water for millions of Americans and is the primary source of water to irrigate cropland in many of the nations most productive agricultural settings. Although the ...

Prior to the earthquake, Kumamoto City area groundwater had broad stable isotopic compositional features that included low elevation mountain springs, recharge area soil waters, and Shirakawa river ...

Many scientists say that liquid water is a key to understanding the behavior of the frozen form found in glaciers. Melt water is known to lubricate their gravelly bases and hasten their march toward ...

Warming temperatures and increased precipitation in the Canadian High Arctic are mobilizing new pathways for subsurface ...

The research team collected data in blistering cold of Antarctica for weeks to map the continent’s subsurface. Photo: Kerry Key Antarctica, far from just a sprawling mass of ice, is a geologically ...

A team has mapped a huge, actively circulating groundwater system in deep sediments in West Antarctica. They say such systems, probably common in Antarctica, may have as-yet unknown implications for ...