Puerto Rico rations water supplies due to intense drought
Hundreds of thousands of people are going without running water for two days at a time in Puerto...
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The Sahara sends roughly 27 million tonnes of dust across the Atlantic every year, and the phosphorus in it is what stops the Amazon’s soils exhausting themselves, which means the largest rainforest on earth is quietly fertilised by the largest hot desert on earth.
The image is almost too neat. On one side of the Atlantic sits the Sahara, the largest hot desert...
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The smell that fills the air during the first rainfall after a dry spell is called petrichor, and it comes from plant oils, soil bacteria, and a molecule the human nose can detect at almost unbelievable concentrations
Isabel Joy Bear and Richard Thomas, two researchers working at the Commonwealth Scientific and...
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The unusual ways Fijians predict when a cyclone is approaching
Frankie Adkins (Credit: Frankie Adkins) Creeping yams and bees behaving strangely – in...
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Fossil exposed by rains in Tamil Nadu turns out to be 12,000-year-old ancient relic
Scientists involved in the study say the fossils could provide valuable insights into the type of...
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No sun, no wind: Chinese scientists have managed to convert the impact of rain into electricity, and a small panel has already powered 50 lights at the same time
Rain is great for gardens, but could it also help keep the lights on? A research...
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1,316 Tons Of Carbon Trapped By One Small Animal
Quick Take Reaching 1,316 tons of carbon sequestration requires...
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Africa’s forests have flipped from carbon sink to carbon source
Africa’s forests are no longer helping fight climate change—they’re now making it worse by...
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Cold, Rain, and Climate Change: Why Baby Birds Are Losing the Fight to Survive
Sixty years of data from more than 80,000 wild great tits in the UK reveal a troubling...
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Without rain for 13 years, the Dakhla Oasis attempts to build an ecovillage in the Sahara using fossil water, deep wells, ancestral architecture, and extreme solutions to survive the heat.
Dakhla Oasis relies on deep wells to build a permaculture ecovillage in the Sahara and cope...
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Say Goodbye to Water Pipes: Japan Built a Machine That Purifies and Recycles Every Drop of Water in Your Home
A high-tech water breakthrough in Japan could rewrite the future of infrastructure. Backed by...
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Are rainforests now a cause of, rather than the answer to, climate change?
A new study finds that Africa’s forests, responsible for one-fifth of global carbon removal, are...
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