Nearly one in five wells in the United States contains traces of at least one element that exceeds human health standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to a U.S.

The U.S. Geological Survey will begin measuring groundwater levels Monday at some 1,400 wells in eastern and south-central Idaho. The project will take two weeks. The Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer is ...

The U.S. Geological Survey and the Connecticut Department of Public Health are warning state residents of the chance for higher than recommended levels of arsenic and uranium in their private well.

More than one-third of the U.S. population uses drinking water from contaminated public wells, according to a 14-year-long study by the U.S. Geological Survey that was released late last week. The ...

In a new report, the U.S. Geological Survey estimates 2.1 million Americans use water wells with high levels of arsenic, a naturally occurring metal linked to cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes ...

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ARCO • Idaho National Laboratory employees may no longer inject nuclear waste into the ground, but the waste is still finding a way to creep into a critical water source.

While the debate over whether fracking - or more specifically, the injection wells associated with it - causes earthquakes continues to rage, the US Geological Survey says the risk of a major quake ...

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Cancer-causing radon has been found in 14 percent of water wells in 16 geological regions across the state of Pennsylvania in a study conducted using data collected from 1986 to 2015. According to ABC ...

To Cathy Wallace, the earthquakes that have been rattling her tidy suburban home in Dallas feel like underground thunderstorms. First comes a distant roar, then a boom and a jolt. Her house shakes and ...

The U.S. Geological Survey and the Connecticut Department of Public Health are warning state residents of the chance for higher than recommended levels of arsenic and uranium in their private well.