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From California’s Central Valley to the croplands of Iran, groundwater depletion has accelerated over the last four decades across the world’s arid food-producing regions. In many parts of the western ...
A helicopter flying at 55 miles per hour, with an 85-foot-diameter sensing device dangling below it, crisscrossed the Upper Black Squirrel Creek Groundwater Management District earlier this month. The ...
American groundwater has been severely depleted in recent decades, with 40 percent of more than 85,000 wells hitting all-time lows in the past decade and rainwater failing to replace the losses, ...
When humans pump groundwater, it has a substantial impact on the tilt of Earth’s rotation. Additionally, a study documents just how much of an influence groundwater pumping has on climate change.
Gabriel Rau receives funding from the German Research Council (DFG) for research on subsurface heat transport, though not related to this article. Barret Kurylyk receives funding from the Natural ...