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Adithya Salil Nair, a field engineer with Stantec, and Berkay Azakli, a geotechnical engineer with SEECO Consultants, write a plan for the day to collect soil samples from a former cornfield, where Joliet hopes to build a water tower and pump station facility, March 14, 2025. (Audrey Richardson/baiduhai)

As aquifer dries up, some Will County towns say they aren’t worried about running out of water

May 7, 2025 at 7:24 p.m.

The challenge with continuing to depend on groundwater is the unpredictability and sensitivity of the deep aquifer, experts say.

Former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, second from left, and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists member Robert Socolow, second from right, reveal the Doomsday Clock, set at 89 seconds to midnight, as fellow members Herbert Lin, left, and Suzet McKinney, right, watch during a news conference at the United States Institute of Peace, on Jan. 28, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Doomsday Clock closest it’s ever been to midnight amid climate, nuclear, AI threats

January 28, 2025 at 5:00 p.m.

Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds till midnight, the closest it has ever been.

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