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The definition of "drought" has become watered down and is really just a matter of perspective.

Change to land and sea from global warming mean maps need to be redrawn.

E. coli in sand is not dangerous—but other bacteria might be.

Scientists created the longest-ever record of hurricane strikes and show El Niño acts like switch.

Metals found in lake mud in the central Peruvian Andes have revealed the first evidence for pre-Colonial metalsmithing there.

Scientists have peeled away the sandy cloak blanketing Darfur�s parched landscape to reveal an ancient basin that once housed a mega lake larger than Lake Erie.

A network of lakes that rapidly drain and fill with water may lie beneath two of West Anarctica’s major ice streams.

Bubbling lakes in Siberia are releasing up to six times more methane into the atmosphere than previously thought.

The largest collection of Pleistocene human footprints in the world reveals adults and children hoofing it every which way.

A network of channels beneath Antarctica's ice could allow the movement of water, and life, from one underground lake to another.