Mars is looking more and more like a place for NASA to find the first signs of alien life. Scientists discovered evidence of ...

It is so easy to forget that geological processes of Earth are ongoing, always working at the same time, and surprising us. Recent scientific discoveries are revealing two extraordinary phenomena that ...

The latest findings corroborate a study published last year, which similarly found that vast quantities of water may still exist under Mars' surface. Using another analysis of seismic data from ...

Below the arid surface of the great desert are huge natural reservoirs of water. These resources are now beginning to be studied and exploited for the benefit of the Saharan nations ...

It can be found from shallow ground to several miles below the surface, and even farther down ... Some U.S. cities pipe geothermal hot water under roads and sidewalks to melt snow.

This giant deposit might be hiding a frozen ocean under layers of ancient Martian dust. If that ice melted, scientists say, it could flood the entire surface of Mars in water nearly nine feet deep.

Though Europa is only the size of our own moon, it holds more water ... surface appears to be in constant flux. Energy-rich compounds there could reach the ocean as pieces of the crust slide under ...

In the US, wetlands protection largely falls under the Clean Water Act of 1972 ... with respect to the timing and duration of surface water inundation as well as seasonal patterns of inundation.

Rio de Janeiro: Brazil is home to 12 per cent of Earth's freshwater reserves, much of it in the Amazon, but is losing natural surface water as climate change and land conversion from forest to ...

Environmental Protection Agency Director Lee Zeldin issued guidance to limit federal protections for wetlands last week that ...

In the Sackett decision, the court ruled that wetlands are protected by the Clean Water Act only when they have a “continuous ...