The United Nations estimates that 2.2 billion people lack safely managed drinking water, and communities from California to ...

Researchers at the University of Rochester have developed a new solar-thermal desalination process that ...

A scientific expedition off the west coast of Hawaii Island has concluded a two-week offshore imaging survey aimed at confirming the existence of a vast underground reservoir of fresh or brackish ...

Deep in Earth's past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States. Nearly 50 years ago, a U.S. government ship searching for ...

Scientists have uncovered what is believed to be a vast, hidden freshwater aquifer stretching along the US East Coast, from New Jersey to Maine, located deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. This ...

ABOARD LIFTBOAT ROBERT, North Atlantic (AP) — Deep in Earth’s past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States. Nearly 50 ...

ABOARD LIFTBOAT ROBERT, North Atlantic (AP) — Scientists conducting a first-of-its-kind drilling operation have extracted samples of fresh water hiding in massive reservoirs deep under the ocean.