In the shadow of Miami’s skyline, in water churned daily by boats and jet skis, juvenile great hammerhead sharks—a critically endangered species—spend the first two years of their lives. A few miles from downtown, researchers recently pulled a 12-foot critically endangered sawfish from the same shallows. The species has been dying off in alarming numbers […]
PRINCETON, Iowa—From the beginning, the new well was a headache. Late in 2022, an overly powerful pump caused eight months of costly water main breaks in Princeton, a town of nearly 1,000 residents on the banks of the silty Mississippi River. Installing a smaller motor seemed to fix that issue, but revealed a different, all-too-familiar […]
Julie Zahringer hears a common refrain at her environmental laboratory in Alamosa, Colorado: A customer has been drinking well water on family land where they’ve lived for years, but recently noticed it has changed. They want to know why. “All of a sudden it looks different, tastes different, there’s odor, there’s color,” said Zahringer. Zahringer’s […]
Groundwater level and storage trends in the headwater catchments of Victoria, Austalia. Credit: Zhang et al. [2026], Figure 1
JIM WELLS COUNTY, Texas—Dwindling levels in this region’s main reservoirs have triggered a rush on local aquifers as cities, towns, chemical plants and ranchers drill for water. The nearby city of Corpus Christi faces a looming catastrophe from the imminent depletion of water supplies that sustain 500,000 people and one of Texas’s main industrial complexes. […]
Conceptual model of the generation of Self-Potential (SP) signals measured by electrodes at Benone Strand under different hydrodynamic conditions: (a) normal tidal oscillations, (b) storm surge conditions, and (c) post-surge recovery. The model illustrates the movement of the fresh–saltwater interface in response to sea-level changes and indicates the locations of the SP electrodes at pads A and…
Visual representation of how the proposed deep-learning ensemble smoother learns the complexity of the subsurface environment. Credit: Cao et al. [2026], Figure 1b