Fossil Fuels New Keystone XL Route Could Still Threaten Ogallala Aquifer Map used to define Nebraska Sandhills doesn't include nearby areas also vulnerable to contamination, InsideClimate News has ...

A depth-to-water map of northeastern Nebraska, showing the new Keystone XL route (yellow), the original route (orange) and the Sandhills (in green). Lighter areas have a high water table (depth to ...

The biggest changes took place around the Ogallala Aquifer, ... The analysis used satellite data and cropland information from the U.S. Agriculture Department to map the ... Nebraska, New Mexico ...

LINCOLN, Neb. — A new study shows a link between high nitrate levels and uranium contamination in the Ogallala Aquifer, which runs through most of Nebraska.

Tapping the Aquifer On a hydrographic map, the Ogallala is a Rorschach inkblot that some describe as the ... Although precipitation in Nebraska at the northern end of the aquifer will likely ...

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln hydrogeologist is mapping the Ogallala Aquifer to find deep uranium formations. The Crow Butte mine near Crawford has produced 16 million pounds of uranium since ...

LUBBOCK, TEXAS — The Ogallala Aquifer across the region has dropped about 325 billion gallons every year for at least the past four decades. To put that number into perspective, the roughly 1 ...

The southern Great Plains are drier now than in the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s. What to do with the Ogallala Aquifer — the largest underground source of fresh water in the United States — is an ...

"A relatively modest jog around the Sandhills"—that's how one TransCanada executive describes the Keystone XL oil pipeline's new route through Nebraska, which is expected to be released in the ...