A new study is the first to report microplastics in fractured limestone aquifers -- a groundwater source that accounts for 25 percent of the global drinking water supply.

Any long-time residents of the Sunshine State are likely all too familiar with sinkholes. But this section of the state sees ...

Beneath the dusty stretch of highway frequented by tourists heading to the Top End, a hidden world has come to light. Deep ...

It’s a karst limestone aquifer, rather than a sand aquifer, with vast caverns, sinkholes, and springs throughout. “Just north of the city, people go caving” she says, ...

Today, this vast system of “holey” limestone around South Central Texas is called the Edwards Aquifer. The porous limestone which makes up the Edwards Aquifer ...

Vulcan Materials plans to build a limestone quarry over the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone, pictured in teal, where rainwater feeds into the aquifer that supplies drinking water to millions in the ...

How this aquifer became one of the first places to bottle water in Kentucky. On a balmy, hot day in early August, Linda Griffin, who co-owns the beverage company with her sisters, met me at the ...

As you cross what is the Beetaloo Sub-basin, you're also crossing over the Cambrian Limestone Aquifer, between 50 and 400 meters thick and covering 570,000 square kilometers of northern Australia.