LINCOLN — State Conservationist Craig Derickson announced last week that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service is seeking proposals for focus areas to ...

Landowner protests construction of the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas. A recent report in Nebraska has done little to quell concerns that a spill on the northern leg of the Keystone ...

LINCOLN — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will invest about $8 million in the Ogallala Aquifer Initiative in Fiscal Year 2016 to ...

Nebraska’s groundwater levels tend to fluctuate with precipitation. The amount of rainfall affects how much water can replenish the aquifer, and how much water farmers need to pump for irrigation. In ...

Ever since the article appeared on the front page of the Journal Star, we have received numerous phone calls, emails and in-person visits from worried people asking us: “Is our aquifer really drying ...

BEYOND THE PIPELINE /// Water-pumping Windmills tap into the giant Ogallala Aquifer 50 feet below the surface in Nebraska, where a leading expert says the State Department is "supposed to protect the ...

The Canadian company TransCanada wants to build a 1,702-mile pipeline that will pass through Nebraska’s Ogallala aquifer as it transports heavy crude oil from tar sands mines in Alberta, Canada to ...

Record snowfall and rainfall this year, with tropical storm Hilary providing the latest blast, have brought major challenges to California but also an important opportunity for the managed recharge of ...

LINCOLN COUNTY, Nebraska – Though it looks like nothing more than a deep trench cutting across corn stubble and dark winter soil, the big water pipeline that construction workers are about to complete ...

TransCanada Corp. (TSE:TRP), the company behind the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline project, has reached a deal with the state of Nebraska to reroute the proposed pipeline around an environmentally ...

Three decades of data have informed a new Nebraska-led study that shows how the depletion of groundwater -- the same that many farmers rely on for irrigation -- can threaten food production amid ...

This illustration released by Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich., shows the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the world's largest underground water systems. It covers parts of South Dakota, ...