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Scientists Finally Figured Out How Much Groundwater There Is Under the US and It Is Enough to Fill the Great Lakes 13 Times Over

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Scientists Finally Figured Out How Much Groundwater There Is Under the US and It Is Enough to Fill the Great Lakes 13 Times Over

January 28, 2026

It’s not easy to determine how much water there is across a landscape. A measly 1% of Earth’s freshwater is…

A map of the contiguous United States shows the depth of the water table in different areas.

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Report: 13 Great Lakes’ Worth of Water Underlies the Contiguous United States

January 27, 2026

It’s not easy to determine how much water there is across a landscape. A measly 1% of Earth’s…

67 million-year-old fossil reveals the origin of freshwater fish hearing

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67 million-year-old fossil reveals the origin of freshwater fish hearing

January 5, 2026

A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in…

North American ice sheets drove most of the sea-level rise after the last ice age

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North American ice sheets drove most of the sea-level rise after the last ice age

October 12, 2025

When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by…