Fossil water refers to underground reservoirs formed during the last glacial ice age. Also known as petrowater or paleowater, fossil water borrows its name from paleontology. Like a traditional fossil ...

Although microbial life in the deep biosphere was discovered in the early 1930s (Lipman, 1931), this environment has only recently become the subject of more extensive biological investigation. This ...

Using measurement data from over 170,000 groundwater monitoring wells and 1,700 groundwater systems over the last 40 years, researchers have shown that global groundwater reserves are dwindling at an ...

Wells, streams and springs are in danger of going dry. Water levels in as many as a third of the world’s aquifers are declining faster now than they did 40 years ago as we take water out of the ground ...