A federal court ruled that the congressional district map drawn by the Alabama legislature was unconstitutional, ordering that it use the court-drawn map from the 2024 election. The Thursday ...

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal court ruled on Thursday that Alabama's Republican-led legislature intentionally discriminated against Black voters when it approved a new electoral map in 2023 ...

and supports freshwater-dependent ecosystems. During droughts, groundwater provides up to 70% of water supplies in the Central Valley. But right now, water is pumped out faster than it is ...

A recent study used 30,000 data points of confirmed groundwater-dependent ecosystem locations to train a computer model to identify them at scale based on satellite data. This novel machine ...

Most ecosystem-mapping efforts involve time-consuming local data collection and field studies. To map groundwater-dependent ecosystems across global drylands, we used publicly available satellite ...

California’s groundwater law includes provisions intended to protect groundwater-dependent ecosystems. But many of these vulnerable natural areas are located outside regulated groundwater basins.

scientists and policy makers need better data for where these groundwater-dependent ecosystems exist. Now, a new study maps these ecosystems in dryland regions globally, examines their protection ...

The researchers estimate the accuracy of the computer model’s ability to identify known groundwater-dependent ecosystems at approximately 87 percent. The map, capturing the global distribution of ...