News
March 2020
Articles on water planetary boundary highlighted by AGU's EOS,  One Earth, the Stockholm Resilience Centre, and WeChat (Chinese).
December 2019
Global groundwater sustainability statement which was published in Nature and covered on radio (CBC Radio's "On the Island") and online: Thomson Reuters, WLE Thrive, Daily Maverick, Infrastructurenews, Thien Nhien  (Vietnam) and Moi Truong  (Vietnam); Ethiopia Informer, New Business Ethiopia; Modern Ghana; Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka); ReliefWeb; Humanitarian news
October 2019
Nature article on the environmental flow limits to global groundwater pumping widely covered by NPR radio stations in the US.  Online in National Geographic, Nature Asia, Watershed Sentinel and EOS.
June 2017
Nature Communications article on groundwater hydro-refugia and human evolution and dispersal covered by the International Business Times (UK), Daily Mail (UK), Trouw (Netherlands), Wissenschaft (Germany), Nature East Asia and other outlets.
April 2017
Article on fossil groundwater being vulnerable to modern contaminants covered by the Globe and Mail, BBC, La Presse, and other outlets.
January 2017
Article on role of changing monsoons on groundwater storage in India covered by the Times of India, the Hindu, Asian Scientist Monitor, and other outlets.
September 2014
Article on water wedges and global water stress reported by Circle of Blue, Epoch Times, and Fast Company and quoted in story in Earth.
January 2014
Groundwater footprint research highlighted in McGill Engineering Dean's report and the McGill Reporter.
August 2013
Article in Ensia discusses our research on global groundwater stress
January 2013
The groundwater footprint squeaked on to Discover magazine's 100 Top Science Stories of 2012 at #98! and is now part of the World Resources Institute Aquaduct tool for measuring, mapping, and understanding global water risks.
December 2012
Nature Geoscience review article on global groundwater depletion covered in German print and radio media such as der Spiegel, Welt, dradio, Sueddeutsche, wDR5, Focus, RNZ, myScience following press release by University of Heidelberg and Nature Geoscience.
August 2012
Nature article on the globlal groundwater footprint was widely covered by articles in Los Angeles Times, Vancouver Sun, Asahi (Japan), La Presse, Chicago Tribune, le Nouvel Observateur, Huffington Post, Nature Geoscience, Sciences & Vie, Sciences & Avenir, CBCnews, Nature News, Science News, CNBC, Agence Science-Press, Tahiti Info, Orlando Sentinel, Boise Weekly, Hong Kong Daily News, The Nation (Pakistan), Newsweek (Pakistan), the Daily Star (Bangladesh), the Saudi Gazette (Saudi Arabia), Terra (Spain), EXAME (Brazil) and Yesil Gazette (Turkey) following news wire stories by Reuters and Agence France-Presse. Blog coverage included the New York Times, National Geographic, NPR , Scientific American and Washington Post,
  • ​For those who prefer listening, other coverage included a Nature podcast, a shoutout on the BBC, and interviews on public radio in Germany (dradio.de), Australia (ABC) and New York City as well as Radio Canada International.
February 2012
Paper on vulnerability of coastal aquifers published in Nature Climate Change and covered in La Presse, Agence Science Presse and ASCE's Civil Engineering online magazine
February 2011
Mapping of global permeability covered in a variety of outlets including New Scientist and Science Daily.
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