A massive freshwater aquifer the size of Austria is under threat after the Namibian government awarded uranium prospecting licences to several mining companies sniffing around the aquifer system. The ...

An enormous water reservoir — likely the largest aquifer of its kind in on Earth — sits inside the volcanic rocks of the Oregon Cascades, scientists have revealed. A hidden reservoir of ...

This huge aquifer, stored underneath volcanic rocks deep within the mountains, contains some 19.4 cubic miles of water, or roughly 21,400,000,000,000 gallons, according to a new paper in the ...

The studies determined that the unconfined aquifers that would accept basins would discharge into are 18 to 20 feet deep and different from the confined aquifers drilled into the bedrock for ...

Researchers from the University of Oregon and other institutions have identified an aquifer—a layer of water-saturated rock or sediment—beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central ...

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EUGENE, Ore. – It turns out there’s a massive underground aquifer at the crest of the central Oregon Cascade mountains, according to a group of researchers at the University of Oregon. U of O ...

State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Molecular and Process Engineering, SINOPEC Research Institute of Petroleum Processing Co., Ltd., Beijing 100083, China ...

Credit: Benjamin Nash Researchers have discovered an underground aquifer in Oregon’s Cascade Range is significantly larger than previously thought — three times the size of Lake Mead. This vast water ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Stampriet Transboundary Aquifer System, a vital freshwater resource in southern Africa, is threatened by mining activities. Uranium, petroleum, and rare ...