Without sufficient rainfall to replenish the aquifers, the region’s groundwater levels continue to drop. This cycle of drought and over-reliance on groundwater creates a precarious situation ...

Nie and her colleagues focused on three different kinds of shifts or changes in the cycle: first, a trend, such as a decrease in water in a groundwater reservoir; second, a shift in seasonality ...

A gigantic dam, our extraction of groundwater, melting ice sheets and rising sea levels are all altering Earth’s spin. The ...