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The oceans are missing their rivers

For billions of years, rivers connected continents to the sea. Then we came along.
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Will climate change lead to water wars?
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Will climate change lead to water wars?

The Kyrgyz soldier stepped quietly out of the dark green bushes and swung his Kalashnikov rifle in the direction of our car.

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Why our intuition about sea-level rise is wrong
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Why our intuition about sea-level rise is wrong

Geologist Jerry Mitrovica has been overturning accepted wisdom for decades. Climate change, he cautions, is not just about a global average sea rise.

Mark L. Hineline: Is fixing the climate incompatible with American ideals?
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Mark L. Hineline: Is fixing the climate incompatible with American ideals?

Our political institutions were given form in a time when nature was considered rather static and inexhaustible.

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Climate change is making plants behave like Costco shoppers

Climate change is making plants behave like Costco shoppers

Not having to endure costs radically changes behavior, in humans and in plants.

Desert air will give us water
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Desert air will give us water

A partial solution to the problem of punishing droughts may be to snatch water from the air, Dune-style.

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