Pesticides can harm aquatic ecosystems and human health, so scientists need to understand how they move from farm fields into ...

Every spring, high-country streams and rivers in the American West begin to swell with water as the region’s snowpack starts to dissipate. It’s easy to assume that the liquid flowing in these water ...

Beneath the fields and cities across America lies a hidden crisis that threatens millions of lives. While lakes and rivers ...

Growing communities and extensive agriculture throughout the Western United States rely on meltwater that spills out of snow-capped mountains every spring. The models for predicting the amount of this ...

Hydrologists show most streamflow out of the West's mountains is old snowmelt on a multi-year underground journey. New study finds that spring runoff is on average 5 years old. Growing communities and ...

Nevada, the driest state in the nation, is only getting drier as the region’s supply of groundwater quickly disappears. The American Southwest – including Arizona, New Mexico, and portions of Nevada, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rain gardens offer many environmental benefits including managing stormwater by capturing runoff and reducing the amount of water ...