The Midwest National Parks spans 3 time zones and 13 states including Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michiga ...

Scientists found millions of Americans may be regularly exposed to dangerous levels of arsenic, and they may not even know it ...

Under the Great Plains, there's an aquifer powering the region's agriculture system. But it's running out of water, prompting farmers in middle America to consider more environmentally friendly crops.

map by Lauren Cross, Investigate Midwest The May 1 meeting primarily focused on a proposed 12-building chicken farm, which, if built, would become the second-largest poultry operation in the area. The ...

The Edwards Aquifer Authority has issued Stage 4 restrictions, an improvement from last week’s Stage 5 designation, for those who have permits to pump from the Edwards Aquifer.

“It’s a finite resource,” she told the supervisors. Thomas is the section chief for Groundwater and Geophysics in the USGS Central Midwest Water Science Center. The research for the aquifer study ...

The White Earth Nation has proposed a casino-resort complex on land above the Buffalo Aquifer, a source of Moorhead's water. A diagram shows the layers of an aquifer, which stores water beneath ...

A map of locations with vulnerability to groundwater contamination due to orphaned wells. Credit: Science of the Total Environment The Gulf Coast aquifers, including the Coastal Lowlands aquifer ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — A proposal to protect the Mahomet aquifer from carbon capture and sequestration has strong bipartisan support in Springfield. Senators Paul Faraci (D-Champaign) and ...

Leif Karlstrom, a University of Oregon earth scientist, and Gordon Grant, a hydrologist with the U.S. Forest Service, talk about an aquifer they estimate contains 81 cubic kilometers of freshwater ...

University of Oregon scientists and partners published a study on Jan. 13; the study said they found an aquifer running underneath the Oregon Cascades, which indicated to be many times larger than ...

However, Senate President Don Harmon, an Oak Park Democrat, used his position as a committee chairman to table the Mahomet Aquifer bill during a November hearing. Multiple observers attending the ...