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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  

Comment

Forever, Ai Weiwei, is a sculpture made of bicycles

Life

Megacities Asia challenges the utopian view of smart cities

Culture

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

Earth

A fifth of all plants threatened as habitats shrink worldwide

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A core being inspected

Earth

Seabed core reveals how lush Antarctica changed to icy desert

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Rainclouds roll in over a field

Earth

Rain spawns more rain when it falls on ploughed land

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A road with a coffee sign

Environment

Recycled coffee grounds could make roads smoother and greener

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seed bank

Life

A new politics of climate change could save the world

Culture

A plane flies over the icey Antarctic landscape

Earth

Huge never-before-seen lake spotted hiding under Antarctic ice

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Arjen Hoekstra

Earth

We can avoid a water crisis, but the fix will be hard to swallow

Opinion

Dried out river in Greece

Earth

A looming water crisis demands creative thinking

Water may look like a local resource but is actually a global commons that requires a joined-up plan to distribute fairly

Leader

Earth

Victorians experienced early climate change but missed the signs

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Earth

Do flatlining emissions make Paris climate deal more realistic?

Insight

Earth

Trees share vital goodies through a secret underground network

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Earth

Record early ice melt in Greenland due to freak warm weather

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