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Drilling has begun at our sacred site Pe' Sla, setting a dangerous precedent for Indigenous lands across the country. It must be stopped.4 Comments -
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'A completely new reality': Bolder measures are needed to prevent extreme water shortages in cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas that depend on the Colorado River9 Comments
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Colorado River may have pooled and spilled over to form the Grand Canyon, solving a long-standing mystery — but not everyone agreesThe Colorado River muscled its way through today's Grand Canyon after pooling as a giant lake, according to new research.
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Ancient process that created rare earth elements discovered — and it could help us locate desperately needed depositsA new study suggests rare earth elements form in magma above ancient subduction zones, as that magma reacts with substances that are released when one tectonic plate dives beneath another.
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Mini lake meets snowy rim of Canada's oldest ice massEarth from space A 2010 satellite photo shows the point where a small lake bisects the snowy rim of an ancient glacier on Canada's Baffin Island. The rippling, snow-rimmed structure is the last remaining fragment of a colossal ice sheet that once covered large parts of North America.
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'I've seen the movies. What a horrible way to die': What it's like to be sucked into a tornado and surviveInterview Perry Samson was helping students conduct field experiments on supercell storms in Kansas in 2008 when one suddenly turned into a tornado and dragged him in.
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Aoshima: Japan's tiny 'Cat Island' where felines hugely outnumber humansOnce a thriving sardine fishing island, today Aoshima is home to roughly 80 cats and just a handful of people who look after the felines with the help of food donations from around Japan.
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Western states face above-normal wildfire threats this summer. New maps reveal which areas are most at risk.Amid drought and heat waves, April's national wildfire forecast shows that nearly the entire Western U.S. will face an above-normal risk of wildfires at some point in the next four months.
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'In every continent where humans are present, water bankruptcy is manifesting itself': Exiled Iranian scientist Kaveh Madani on our desperate need to preserve our most precious resourceLive Science spoke with Kaveh Madani, director of the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health and recipient of the 2026 Stockholm Water Prize, about "water bankruptcy" and what countries should do to avoid catastrophe.
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California declared war on smog in the 1970s. The knock-on effects were huge.A professor of environmental law explores the 1970 Clean Air Act and it how it has effected car emissions and smog in the decades since.
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Deadly, vivid-green mass sprawls across South African reservoirEarth from space A 2022 satellite photo shows a thick mat of blooming algae and invasive aquatic plants spreading across the surface of the reservoir at South Africa's Hartebeespoort Dam. The verdant mass is both toxic and capable of depleting the water's oxygen levels.
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