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The Root Bridges Of Cherrapunji
In the depths of northeastern India, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren't built—they're grown. More at source.
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Winter Miracle in Japan
By Photographer Azul Obscura's own words: "New Year's Day of 2015, it was heavy snow in Kyoto. The next day morning, I went to Daigoji without hesitation. There was incredibly beautiful scenery, I felt like I was in a dream..."
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Rare Black Jaguar Sighting as Big Cat Takes Cross-River Swim
Black jaguars are not a distinct species. On the contrary, they are just like any other such feline, except that they are, well, black.
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Golden Mussel Invasion Threatens Amazon River, Brazil Scientists Say
Among the largest and most recognizable waterways in the world, the Amazon River may soon be under attack from an unlikely nemesis: the golden mussel of China.
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The Ganges: a holy, deadly river
Pollution has turned the sacred waters into a lethal cocktail of industrial and human waste. Can the river be saved? Nearly 13,000ft up in the foothills of the Himalayas, Amod Panwar, an Indian hotel owner and devout Hindu, reverently places offerings of almonds, sultanas and a coconut into the water cascading from an icy cavern known as Gaumukh, the “cow’s mouth”.
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Train Derailment Sends Oil Tanker into West Virginia River
Emergency crews and environmental officials are responding to a train derailment Monday afternoon in West Virginia that sent at least one tanker containing crude oil into a river and 14 tank cars were reported to be on fire, and some cars have exploded.
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Indian River, Protected by a Curse, Faces the Modern World
For many centuries, it was a curse that saved the river
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Yearly glacial flood into Gulf of Alaska exceeds freshwater output of Mississippi River
Satellite data has confirmed that the amount of freshwater released into the Gulf of Alaska from streams and rivers in Alaska and northern Canada is about 1.5 times what the Mississippi River dumps into the Gulf of Mexico each year. That astounding flow of water is from rainfalls that soak Southeast Alaska and the south side of the Alaska Range. The other half comes from the melting of snow and ice from glaciers.
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Global Flood Toll to Triple by 2030
The number of people affected by river flooding worldwide could nearly triple in the next 15 years, analysis shows.
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We Keep Spilling Oil Into America’s Greatest Rivers
The Ohio, the Yellowstone, the Missouri, and now the Mississippi River have all been spiked with oil in the last year.
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California has about one year of water left. Will you ration now?
Given the historic low temperatures and snowfalls that pummeled the eastern U.S. this winter, it might be easy to overlook how devastating California's winter was as well.
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The Beast of the Danube
The Danube salmon's last hunting grounds in Europe can be found in the Balkans - but a rash of dam-building poses a risk to its habitat.
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Don't Torpedo The Dam, Full Speed Ahead For Ethiopia's Nile Project
Egypt was ready to go to war over Ethiopia's planned Renaissance Dam. A new agreement has ended the tension. But that doesn't mean everyone's a winner.
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Beavers Are Great for the Environment. As Neighbors, Not So Much
In this case, it's not just the beavers that are eager.The dam-building rodents are getting a boost across the West, thanks to their signature water-blocking homes.
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Glow-in-the dark tampons could help make our rivers cleaner
Not only do they make periods less messy, more manageable and allow you to go swimming, they have a huge number of other uses. Now engineers from the University of Sheffield have discovered that glow-in-the-dark tampons can be used to stop sewage leaking into rivers. The untreated white cotton used in tampons glows under UV light when they're soaked in dirty or polluted river water.
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A Cargo Ship Plies the Mississippi River
A cargo ship plies the Mississippi River towards New Orleans in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, USA, March 31, 2015.
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Water Wars: China, India and the Great Dam Rush
The construction of dams on major rivers has serious implications for millions living downstream.
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Should California Spend 4 Billion Gallons to Save a Few Fish?
In the heart of California’s drought-parched Central Valley, fruit and vegetable supplier to the nation, a water district is defying a federal order to give some endangered trout a 3.9 billion gallon water ride out to sea. And it could be the first skirmish in a much wider conflict.
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Leaked videos suggest Chevron cover-up of Amazon pollution
Videos reportedly leaked by a whistleblower at the Chevron Corp. purport to show employees and consultants paid by the energy giant finding petroleum contamination at sites in the Ecuadorean Amazon that the company claimed was cleaned up years earlier.
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Last Straw: How The Fortunes Of Las Vegas Will Rise Or Fall With Lake Mead
Next year, a new tunnel under Lake Mead will begin delivering water to Las Vegas. The project is massive, expensive, politically fraught—and a harbinger of things to come.
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