A new agreement between a conservation group and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service moves a toad found only in Nevada closer ...

In a quiet patch of marsh in Nye County, a toad the size of a child’s palm has just pulled the federal government a little deeper into Nevada’s water wars. The Railroad Valley toad, which lives only ...

Having failed to meet a deadline and getting sued for it, a federal agency Wednesday agreed to decide whether to list a rare Nevada toad as a threatened or endangered species within the next two years ...

Explore the top 10 longest rivers in Europe, from the massive Volga to the international Danube. Learn about their sources, lengths, and how they provide water for farming and cities.

For half the world's population, the water in their drinking glasses comes from below them. Groundwater also supplies 40% of global irrigation projects. Alarmingly, more than a third of the planet's ...

Groundwater has fallen to precarious depths in much of the world. New research highlights areas that have been able to bring levels back up.

PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs on Wednesday vetoed five bills changing water laws in Arizona, concluding they would cause more harm than good. The governor rejected an extensive measure that would have ...

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Mars was once far wetter than it appears today, and new research suggests much of that water did not disappear but migrated beneath the surface. Evidence from deep crater basins points to a ...

Find out below! Monitoring migratory birds in the Jordan Rift Valley Tareq Qaneer is the Head of Birds’ Projects Management Unit at The Royal Society for The Conservation of Nature (RSCN), the ...

They found that even during hot, dry periods ‪—‬ when soil moisture was at record lows ‪—‬ evapotranspiration remained high. This suggests that plants were tapping into groundwater reserves when soil ...