People who live along the border watched their aquifers recede as the border wall grew. Now they fear it will happen again.

After a decade of local opposition, political scandal and changing plans, the Sio Silica project’s fate is still up in the ...

Hydrology is the study of the cycling of water through different reservoirs on Earth. It also refers to the cycling of liquids such as hydrocarbons on other planets. Hydrology focuses on the ...

On a sweltering afternoon in Punjab, a farmer lowers his bucket into the well that has sustained his family for generations. The water looks clear, but tests reveal a different story: uranium levels ...

Few sectors have been targeted by the promises of artificial intelligence as relentlessly as education. Could one of those promises have finally been fulfilled? The school textbook is education’s most ...

The Akkadians. The Maya. The Tang Dynasty of China. The Chaco. The Indus Civilization. These diverse societies, separated by oceans and continents, each persisted for hundreds of years. They had large ...

It’s said that Badwater Basin earned its name when a 1849er’s mule refused to drink from a nearby spring-fed pool, suggesting ...

The usual rule-of-thumb cutoff point for when you’re paying more than you probably can afford for rent or mortgage is about ...

Flooding Egypt’s vast Qattara Depression with seawater could slightly lower global sea levels and reshape climate adaptation.

A hearing is set for next week on the proposed definition rolled out last month for "Waters of the United States,” which outlines the waterbodies eligible for protection under the federal Clean Water ...

Our columnist on the books that wowed her this year. By Sarah Weinman One fiction, one nonfiction (which he turns to at night). In “Future Boy,” he recalls juggling signature roles in “Back to the ...