The Al-Mawasi area, historically known for its fertile lands and fresh groundwater, has been reduced to barren terrain.

As climate change pushes seas to rise ever higher, shallow groundwater could become a more costly hazard across the Atlantic coast, particularly in South Florida where the water table sits just ...

Scientists have discovered that extensive groundwater pumping, totaling 2,150 gigatons between 1993 and 2010, has tilted the Earth approximately 31.5 inches eastward. This shift, driven by the ...

This may sound trivial, but over the last 20 years alone, the pumping of groundwater – mostly for drinking – has caused Earth’s rotation to tilt eastwards by nearly 80 centimeters (31.5 ...

Believe it or not, something as seemingly insignificant as our water usage can cause Earth’s physical orientation to deviate. Over less than two decades, our groundwater pumping has tilted the Earth ...

Hope Paasch, right, briefs volunteers Jacqui Shive, center, and Dorothy Bryan-Kanda in North Carolina's Iredell County on Nov. 4 before they go canvass for Vice President Kamala Harris. (Logan ...

And the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen are also continuing to fire at merchant ships and battle the U.S. Navy in the Red Sea. After the death of three American troops at a base in Jordan from an ...

High levels of heavy metals and metalloids in untreated groundwater have been detected in and around Whitehorse, new research suggests. Of main concern are arsenic, uranium and manganese ...

Yemen's Huthi rebels have attacked international shipping and fired on U.S. naval forces in the Red Sea for over a year. The Huthis' missile and drone attacks have disrupted a key global trade ...

On top of this, the site needed to be filled with groundwater to sustain the reaction, just as water is used in modern nuclear reactors to slow down neutrons produced by fission. As the water ...

The Earth's axis has tilted due to groundwater extraction. File Photo/Reuters The Earth’s axis has tilted by 31.5 inches (about 80 centimetres), new research has found. The study, published in the ...

Earth tilted, but it had nothing to do with weird space phenomena and everything to do with how people are pumping groundwater and shipping it across the planet, a study found. The findings of a ...