Tag: Irrigation
Humans are depleting groundwater worldwide, but there are ways to replenish it
Scott Jasechko, University of California, Santa Barbara; Debra Perrone, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Richard Taylor, UCL
If...
A water strategy for the parched West: Have cities pay farmers...
Robert Glennon, University of Arizona
“Are you going to run out of water?” is the first question people ask...
Ancient groundwater: Why the water you’re drinking may be thousands of...
Marissa Grunes, Harvard University; Alan Seltzer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Kevin M. Befus, University of Arkansas
Communities that...
Farmers are depleting the Ogallala Aquifer because the government pays them...
Matthew R Sanderson, Kansas State University; Burke Griggs, Washburn University, and Jacob A. Miller, Kansas State University
A slow-moving crisis threatens the U.S. Central Plains,...
Farmers are drawing groundwater from the giant Ogallala Aquifer faster than...
Char Miller, Pomona College
Every summer the U.S. Central Plains go dry, leading farmers to tap into groundwater to irrigate sorghum, soy, cotton, wheat and...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
