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The Almonte-Marismas aquifer system underlying Doñana, the division between six groundwater bodies, and the areas protected within Doñana National and Natural Parks (which, combined, make up “Doñana Natural Space”). Credit: Wetlands (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s13157-023-01769-1 A team led by the Doñana Biological Station and the Geological and Mining Institute of the Spanish National Research Council has reviewed more than 70 studies…

Israel’s military has begun injecting “high-flow” seawater into Hamas-built tunnels beneath the Gaza Strip as part of its attempt to “neutralize terrorist infrastructures.”On 30 January, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that the plan to flood tunnels under the Gaza Strip, a strategy that has been the subject of rumours since December, is being implemented at a number of undisclosed locations. The IDF’s statement added that the move was a “significant engineering and technological breakthrough” and that locations…

As drought and climate change ravage California’s once-reliable supply of drinking water, officials in Los Angeles are setting their sights on a relatively new, almost untapped resource for the city’s 4 million residents: the Superfund site in their own backyard.Nearly 70% of the city’s 115 wells in the San Fernando Valley groundwater basin — the largest such basin under the purview of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power — have been sitting unused for decades after dangerous contaminants seeped into the…

“The Pawsey Centre employs a cooling mechanism which leverages a shallow aquifer beneath the centre to shed the accumulated heat created by Setonix,” Stickells said.“This removes the need to use cooling towers as the primary cooling mechanism and thus loses no water to evaporation while having sufficient solar generation to run the required pumps.Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre executive director Mark Stickells.Credit:Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre“This means the cooling systems for Setonix have essentially…

Beneath a fast-flowing ice stream in West Antarctica, scientists have discovered a vast aquifer brimming with seawater that's likely been locked down there for thousands of years.   This is the first time scientists have detected groundwater beneath an ice stream in Antarctica, and the discovery could reshape our understanding of how the frigid continent reacts to climate change and what kinds of mysterious organisms lurk beneath its many ice shelves.   The newfound groundwater system can be thought of as a giant sponge,…