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Iraq plans ten new dams as "El Niño" worsens water crisis
By bnm Gulf bureau Water Resources Minister Awn Dhiab Abdullah announced that “El Niño's negative impact” on Iraq is increasing, with 12 provinces now relying exclusively on groundwater, as the ...
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First Came the Wildfires—then the Floods, and the Water Crises
After the prescribed burn escaped its perimeter, it was dubbed the Hermit’s Peak Fire. Then it merged with the Calf Canyon ...
The camouflaged, artificial water supply keeping Calif.'s desert sheep alive
Volunteers with the Society for the Conservation of Bighorn Sheep install a rain collection system and artificial water ...
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Mars ‘Water’ Streaks Could Just Be Dust
Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this ...
Mysterious reed-covered mounds reveal vast underground water network in Great Salt Lake
As Great Salt Lake's levels continue to sag, yet another strange phenomenon has surfaced, offering Utah scientists more ...
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Drought is draining water supplies and driving up food costs where you’d least expect
From Mexico City to the Mekong Delta, increasingly severe droughts caused by climate change are laying waste to ecosystems ...
What Happened to Mars’ Water? A New Study Offers a Startling Answer
An analysis led by the University of Chicago of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why the planet was ...
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Inside the evolution of Biosphere 2, from '90s punchline to scientific playground
The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly plugging away at research they hope will help us all adapt to the Biosphere 1 — ...