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Indian villagers throw containers attached to ropes into a well to collect their daily supply of potable water after a tanker made its daily delivery at Shahapur, some 130 km southwest of Mumbai, on May 13, 2016

Earth

India's drought foretells of greater struggles as climate warms

Cracked soils, farmer suicides and desperate migration are at odds with the country's image as an emerging economic and technological power, says T. V. Padma  

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mood-setting image of people silhouetted in the sun

Earth

La Niña to give some relief from warming after hottest April yet

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City rooftops showing solar panels

Earth

Why cheap green energy could derail the renewable revolution

Analysis

Dubai skyline reflected, stormy sky, seen from old town

Life

Fake mountains to make rain? It's last-gasp geoengineering

Comment

A red knot, which is brown, on the shoreline, with a white clam in its bill

Earth

Earlier ice melt in the Arctic cuts survival of birds in Africa

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Ground up mineral in a person's cupped hands

Earth

Adding rocks to oceans could de-acidify water and save coral

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Mangrove in Mahakam Delta 80% destroyed because of tiger shrimp farm, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

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A fifth of all plants threatened as habitats shrink worldwide

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Homes in Solomon Islands close to edge of sea

Humans

Five Pacific islands vanish from sight as sea levels rise

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A core being inspected

Earth

Seabed core reveals how lush Antarctica changed to icy desert

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Long line of traffic with massive smoke plume above forest

Earth

Canada's huge wildfires may release carbon locked in permafrost

Fires like the one sweeping through Alberta may be the new normal and could speed climate change, perhaps increasing future fire risks

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North Pacific's sea slug invasion linked to mystery ocean blob

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Rain spawns more rain when it falls on ploughed land

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Kingdom-busting volcanoes linked to the rise of the Roman Empire

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Life

A new politics of climate change could save the world

Culture

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