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We can't engineer our way out of the water crisis in the Southwest US

Environment

We can't engineer our way out of the water crisis in the Southwest US

Ever since Arizona was first colonised, politicians and entrepeneurs have sold residents the idea that human ingenuity can craft a solution to water shortfalls. It can't, argues Natalie Koch

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The Amazon rainforest in Brazil

Environment

Deforestation is reducing rainfall all over the tropics

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Mycelium of mushroom. Mycorrhizal association, the fungus colonizes the host plant's root tissues. Mycorrhiza is a symbiotic association. Mycorhize. - Image ID: BDF3AY (RF)

Environment

Adding wild fungi to soil could make trees store more carbon

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NAKURU, RIFT VALLEY, KENYA - 2021/10/17: A view of a submerged Roberts Camp after the unprecedented rise of water levels in Lake Baringo. The flooding situation in Rift Valley lakes exacerbated by climate change has led to displacement of thousands of people from their homes and work. There are growing calls for world leaders to put more effort in addressing the effects of climate change. Communities living near the catchment areas in the global south are the most affected. (Photo by James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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Lake levels are rising across the world and climate change is to blame

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Artificial intelligence training is powered mostly by fossil fuels

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perfect blue sky with clouds and water of the sea

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We need to test solar geoengineering techniques soon, say researchers

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A Kemp's ridley sea turtle makes its way to the ocean on June 29, 2022, at West Dennis Beach in West Dennis, Massachusetts after eight months of rehabilitation at the New England Aquariums sea turtle rehabilitation center in Quincy. - Over 500 were found on the shores of Cape Cod cold-stunned in November and December of 2021. (Photo by Lauren Owens Lambert / AFP) (Photo by LAUREN OWENS LAMBERT/AFP via Getty Images)

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Sea turtle strandings on the US east coast have increased drastically

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Dry ground in a former lagoon

Environment

Rare triple-dip La Niña is mostly to blame for South America's drought

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Cool photographs capture new geopolitics of the melting Arctic

Environment

Cool photographs capture new geopolitics of the melting Arctic

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Oosterschelde flood barrier with windmills in the Netherlands at the Northern Sea taken from above with a drone

Environment

Coastal cities have added 2500 squares kilometres of land since 2000

An analysis of satellite images taken since the year 2000 found that hundreds of the most populous coastal cities have added land, which is now vulnerable to sea level rise

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Environment

Artificial urban islands could supply homes in Maldives as waters rise

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Life

How climate change is forcing animals that mate for life to break up

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Life

Plants are spreading up mountains faster than thought in North America

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Technology

We don't need 'miracle' green technologies to save the planet

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