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+19 +3The world eats cheap bacon at the expense of North Carolina’s rural poor
Neighbors battle pig farms and their stinky manure-filled lagoons in North Carolina. By Lily Kuo.
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+12 +4Birds Are Dying As Drought Ravages Avian Highways
Migrating birds are weakened or sickened as they wing their way along the Pacific flyway in search of fresh water.
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+16 +4Water & Vice
Producing Intoxicants in an Era of Extreme Drought. By Jon Kelvey.
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+8 +4Another challenge at Naches fish hatchery: lack of water
In the spring, the Naches Hatchery was at risk of being closed because of a lack of money.
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+11 +1Fish kill in Crystal Lake
It's a disturbing and smelly scene at a north Iowa lake.
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+8 +1Dry conditions mean lowest July river flow rates since 2001
Sandbar sightings and exposed banks are indications of the slowest July water flow rates in the North Saskatchewan River in 14 years. Alberta Environment and Parks spokesman Jason Penner blamed a lack of precipitation through the winter and dry spring.
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+16 +4Did ‘Magnum P.I.’ star Tom Selleck steal truckloads of hydrant water? A real P.I. was on case
The vehicle that officials say was used to pilfer water from a Ventura County water district’s fire hydrant was a white water tender truck, not a red Ferrari driven by a mustachioed man in a Detroit Tigers baseball cap and a Hawaiian shirt...
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+18 +2Greenland Experiences Sudden Onset of Melt Season
Two maps show Greenland's sudden, rapid meltdown.
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+15 +2This Major World City Is Running Out Of Water
Bangkok only has 30 days worth of water in reserves, authorities say.
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+10 +3California’s 50,000 Pot Farms Are Sucking Rivers Dry
Each plant takes five gallons of water a day from legal and illegal water diversions.
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+19 +5Here’s Why Scientists Want to Flood the Grand Canyon
Without sediment flowing through the canyon, it loses sandbars vital to the river ecosystem.
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+9 +1Lawsuits over California water rights are a fight a century in the making
The lawsuits hit the courts within days of the state mailing notices to some Central Valley irrigation districts: They were to stop diverting from rivers and streams because there wasn't enough water to go around.
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+25 +2Chimps and the Zen of Falling Water
There is a waterfall in Tanzania’s Gombe National Park. Maybe 12 feet high, it’s fairly modestly sized, though even a modest waterfall is quite a magical thing. And it’s here that chimpanzees come to dance…
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+15 +1Farming Without Water
As California faces its fourth year of drought, the farmers who supply half of U.S. fruits and vegetables are trying to figure out how to conserve their scarcest resource.
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+15 +1Rosetta Sees Signs of Water Ice on Comet Surface
Patches of water ice likely speckle the surface of Rosetta's comet, according to observations newly released from the European spacecraft. The orbiter spotted 120 bright spots that were at least a few meters in size.
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+16 +4Troubled Delta System Is California’s Water Battleground
The fight pits the north against the south, farmers against environmental groups, farmers against one another and residents against the governor.
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+23 +3Giant earthquakes are shaking Greenland — and scientists just figured out the disturbing reason why
The stunning science behind why Greenland is having so many earthquakes.
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+18 +3The Beckoning of the Ice Worlds
I have seen the future of space exploration, and it looks like a cue ball covered with brown scribbles. I am talking about Europa, the 1,940-mile-wide, nearly white, and exceedingly smooth satellite of Jupiter. It is an enigmatic world that is, in many ways, almost a perfect inversion of Earth. It is also one of the most plausible places to look for alien life. If it strikes you that those two statements sound rather contradictory—why yes, they do.
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+21 +1This Sci-Fi Novel’s Post-Apocalyptic Future Could Become Reality All Too Soon
The Water Knife, a new novel by Paolo Bacigalupi, makes the Southwest's current problems look like drops in the bucket compared to what's to come.
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+5 +2Vortex 'Capable of Sucking in Boat' Caught on Camera (video)
Video has emerged of a large vortex in waters entering a dam in Lake Texoma, on the border of Texas and Oklahoma
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