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An airborne snow survey found that a basin in Arizona lost 90 percent of its snowpack in the three weeks ending on March 12.
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Airborne snow survey finds that a basin in Arizona lost 90 percent of its snowpack in three weeks between February and March, reflecting terrible snow conditions across the American West. www.circleofblue.org/stream/
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New research identifies patterns of household water insecurity in the Americas, where Peru, Honduras, and Venezuela rank as most water insecure.
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Kuwait electricity and water ministry reports damage to a service building at a power and desalination facility from an Iranian airstrike.
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UN food agency warns of a ‘systematic shock’ to global food production from the U.S. war against Iran.
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A new study suggests that “compound extreme” weather events in which severe heat waves precede droughts are becoming increasingly common across the globe.
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North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality has rejected a federal project to widen Cape Fear amid concerns that the effort will worsen PFAS contamination.
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Dozens of people have died in floodwaters in Nairobi, Kenya, after more than four inches of rain fell on the capital in just 24 hours.
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Facilities that turn seawater into drinking water were bombed over the weekend in Bahrain and Iran as the conflict in the Middle East escalates to include public utilities.
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Source of Life: A natural reservoir in Angola spanning more than 20,000 acres has received official Ramsar recognition as a wetland of international importance, Mongabay reports.
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One of the world’s largest gold mines, located in New South Wales, Australia, has been accused of subjecting communities to a “toxic trifecta” of air, water, and land pollution, Australia Broadcasting Corporation reports.
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Record rains and resulting floodwaters have displaced more than 150,000 Moroccans in the past week, with little relief in sight.
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The world’s second-largest desalination facility is coming to Jordan, one of the most water-stressed countries on the planet.
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The world’s second-largest desalination facility is coming to Jordan, one of the most water-stressed countries on the planet.
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Residents in Australia have filed a class-action lawsuit against one of the world’s largest gold mines for allegedly polluting their drinking water and rivers with heavy metals.
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Record snowfall in coastal Japan has killed dozens of people, while officials brace for flooding as warm weather threatens rapid melting.
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Rainstorms that began as a welcome end to Morocco’s seven-year drought have failed to relent. More than 150,000 people have been displaced as flooding worsens.
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Jordan is spending $6 billion to build the world’s second-largest desalination plant, which will supply up to 40 percent of the country’s drinking water.
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The Uru Chipaya, indigenous to the Bolivian highlands, are migrating from their homelands amid long-standing drought and the disappearance of a major lake.
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The filling of wetlands and mangroves in northern Sri Lanka to make way for a new cricket stadium would result in catastrophic flooding, its critics say.
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Warming alpine temperatures and precipitation falling as rain instead of snow are rapidly changing the landscape of global winter sports competition.
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Above-average winter rains ended a seven-year drought in Morocco, as plans to improve future water security center on desalination and new dams.
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Peru’s Pastaza River Fan communities are uniting science and Indigenous knowledge to protect a Ramsar-listed peatland threatened by mining, drilling, deforestation & pressured aguaje harvests. (Mongabay)
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Over the weekend, Russian forces aimed dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones at Kyiv in what officials are calling one of the war’s largest overnight air strikes, CNN reports.
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1,000: People killed in devastating floods and mudslides last week in Indonesia, Thailand, and Sri Lanka amid heavy regional rainstorms, the Associated Press reports.
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8,000: Illegal dumps scattered across the United Kingdom, according to an investigation from The Guardian, Watershed Investigations, and Air & Space Evidence.
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Communities across Argentina continue to endure one of the world’s most widespread cases of arsenic contamination in drinking water, according to longstanding monitoring by the World Health Organization and local research institutions.
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A new investigation has revealed thousands of illegal dumps across the United Kingdom, where a majority of waterways are polluted.
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Heavy rainstorms last week in Indonesia, Thailand, and Sri Lanka spurred flooding and landslides that killed at least 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more.
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More than one-third of Argentina’s population is exposed to elevated levels of arsenic, a known carcinogen, as a result of surface and groundwater contamination.
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