The Great Plains are home to some of the largest cotton and wheat harvests in the United States. The eight-state region is also home to the country’s biggest cattle ...

The aquifer is slowly being pumped dry. Water wells, for instance, have dropped more than 61 meters (200 feet) in the Texas Panhandle. Though the trend line is downward, not all regions are equally ...

Tap or click the map for more details on ... deficit of any major city across Texas. The Edwards Aquifer, San Antonio’s largest source of drinking water, needs rainfall in its recharge zone ...

Deciding where to live has always been a high-stakes financial decision, but a changing climate makes it even more critical.

The emerging field of ecoinformatics is transforming the way we understand and manage ecological systems and real-world challenges.

Dave Richardson is running against incumbent Ron Garland for the District 4 Georgetown City Council seat in the May 3 ...

The interactive image below shows a top-down Google Maps image of the land ... developed on top of the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone. The University Star, Texas State’s student newspaper ...

No amount of money, from the company or the government, could then restore the land or the aquifer under it ... them as self-inflicted wounds by a country that doesn’t value air, water, land and ...

Here the water plunges into limestone cavities and is absorbed by underground aquifers. This impressive ... The Guadalupe River in Texas is a perfect study of a vanishing river whose course ...

A Senate bill would earmark 80% of funds for "new" water projects like desalination plants and pipelines from other states. A ...

Many of those suburbs rely on at least one of three aquifers in Central Texas — the Trinity, Carrizo-Wilcox and the Edwards — along with Lake Travis and other area lakes for their water.

Credit: Desiree Rios for The Texas Tribune Groundwater — Water that exists underground in soil, sand and rock. Groundwater is ...