Assuming said valley is not shrouded in fog, the first thing your visitor says is something akin to, “Oh, look at the mountains ... the western Cascades are our own personal snow-capped end ...

The American West is hungry for water, and scientists just found a previously unmapped aquifer three times the size of Lake Mead. The discovery came when researchers, studying drill holes left behind ...

University of Oregon earth scientist Leif Karlstrom described it as “a big water tower” at the top of the mountains. The two ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

Researchers have long known there was some kind of aquifer in the Cascade Mountains that feeds rivers like the McKenzie and the Deschutes. But they never knew just how big it might be — until ...

In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness talks to researchers about an underground aquifer below the ...

Roadways are likely to stay snow-coated with the heaviest of snowfall starting late Friday night through Saturday.

Heavy snow and high winds are forecast to impact travel on Oregon’s Cascade Mountain roads and passes from Thursday night ...

receives a lot more rain as prevailing winds off the Pacific Ocean and mountain ranges, such as the Cascades, unleash months of moisture on the region. Now, a new study from the University of ...

The two researchers were describing a massive storehouse of water buried below Oregon’s Central Cascade Mountains that could define the state's future in a world with ever-growing thirst.

In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness talks with two Oregon researchers who published a study about a massive underground aquifer below the Central Cascade Mountains east ...