The Appalachian Basin — which includes parts of eastern Ohio — is one of the areas where aquifers are most at risk.

Hyperscale data centers require water for cooling purposes and can use as much fresh drinking water as 12,000-60,000 ...

Soaring temperatures this week has cut power for thousands around Ohio. These maps can tell you how widespread an outage is and when power will return.

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.

The Ohio River Commission is working with multiple organizations to enhance the utilization of the Ohio River's natural ...

Hueston Woods State Park in Ohio is known for its marine fossils. At this free park, visitors can take any fossils they find ...

In 2021, Illinois lawmakers created the Mahomet Aquifer Council. But now, as they ponder legislation that would ban carbon sequestration activity within the aquifer's footprint, lawmakers will be ...

PFAS are widely used, long-lasting chemicals, components of which break down very slowly over time and are found nearly everywhere, according to the EPA.

Researchers say holes in the clay that overlays the Memphis aquifer could have let pollutants from as early as the 1940s into the groundwater.

Facing the possibility of losing control of the U.S. House next year, national Republicans are pushing two GOP-led states are weighing aggressively redrawing their congressional districts and ...

A five-year study has found that the protective layer of clay above Memphis’ drinking water is “more like Swiss cheese,” with six known and 36 suspected breaches. Prior to the study, which ...