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French people are fighting over giant pools of water
The underground reserves that fill mega-basins are not an infinite resource.
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Climate change is drying out the world’s lakes faster than scientists thought
Study finds a warming climate and human water consumption are largely responsible for a rapid decline in lake levels, with implications for billions of people.
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America’s summer of floods: climate crisis fueling barrage, scientists say
Yellowstone, Death Valley, Kentucky – experts say extreme rainfall spurred by global heating is rendering historical norms obsolete.
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Beyond boundaries: Earth’s water cycle is being bent to breaking point
Freshwater’s life-giving benefits are being gravely threatened by humanity’s manipulations of the hydrological cycle, impacting the climate and biodiversity, and undermining Earth’s operating system.
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The desert’s fragile skin can’t take much more heat
Climate change and human activity are destroying the layers of fungi, lichen, and bacteria that protect deserts from erosion.
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Reversing the desert: How an Arizona engineer is trying to heal the land and protect water
A civil engineer in southern Arizona is looking at nature’s systems to reverse deserts, heal watersheds and revitalize arid land with holistic land management practices.
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Mridula Ramesh: Why climate change talk must focus on water, not just stay obsessed with carbon
Naturally, most climate conversations revolve around carbon, with political and business leaders jumping onto the Net Zero bandwagon. So why muddy the waters, by talking about, um, water?
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