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Satellites tracked a loss of about 4.6 trillion gallons of groundwater in the snow-fed Upper Colorado River Basin during the 2020-2022 drought, and that is nearly doubl…

Upper Colorado River Basin lost about 4.6 trillion gallons of groundwater in the 2020-2022 drought, nearly double the Lower ...
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In Yunnan’s Yanjin, the so-called world’s narrowest city squeezes homes into a river valley that narrows to about 98 feet, and the famous 400,000 population figure actu…

World’s narrowest city? Yanjin, in China’s Yunnan, squeezes homes into a valley that narrows to about 98 feet, and its ...
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More than 750 nesting boxes for native birds have come from a Coppell, Texas, teenager who lost his pet cockatiel, he says, and his Backyard Bird Project has grow…

Points of Light counts nearly 64 bird box events over six years, in person and online. His tally of boxes is his own. “I’ve ...
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A 38-year-old artist built an earthen house in Argentina’s Traslasierra Valley with about 12 car windshields given away in the town where she grew up, and from abov…

Earthen house in Argentina's Traslasierra Valley: an artist set about 12 donated car windshields and colored bottles in mud ...
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Two owner-builders priced out of Melbourne built a 2,286-square-foot Earthship in Cygnet, Tasmania, with rammed earth walls, bottle bricks and no fireplace, and they …

Rammed earth walls keep a 2,286-square-foot Earthship in Cygnet, Tasmania, warm with no fireplace, and its owners say their ...
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An estimated 4.2 million balcony solar systems are now plugged in at homes and apartments in Germany, and in Croatia the same small kit still needs a certified insta…

Balcony solar systems in Germany now number about 4.2 million, while Croatia still asks for a certified installer, design ...
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42 satellite surveys show 11.3 trillion metric tons of polar ice loss across Greenland and Antarctica since 1979, and 84 percent of it came from glaciers flowing faster int…

Polar ice loss reached 11.3 trillion metric tons from 1979 to 2023, and 84 percent came from glaciers flowing faster into the ...
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Ancient sled dogs from sites up to 2,000 years old on Russia’s Chukotka coast had stubby legs like today’s teams, about 6 percent shorter than other canids, and a model ...

Ancient sled dogs from Chukotka sites up to 2,000 years old match today's teams, with leg bones about 6 percent shorter than other canids.
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More than 40 Magellanic penguins born in captivity arrived by court order from Mar del Plata at a river island in Argentina’s Río Negro province, and at first they had no…

Magellanic penguins: more than 40 born in captivity left Mar del Plata for Bubalcó, a refuge on a river island in Río Negro, ...
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In Japan, researchers led by Tohoku University used an inexpensive blue pigment to turn carbon dioxide into methane with 79.5% Faradaic efficiency, and methane selec…

Inexpensive blue pigment turns carbon dioxide into methane in one electrochemical step with 79.5% Faradaic efficiency, a ...
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At 8.2 feet on Oct. 13, the Lake Constance water level in Konstanz, Germany, fell below a 1947 record for the date, and it now sits 10 inches under last winter’s low

Lake Constance water level averaged 250 cm (8.2 ft) at Konstanz on Oct. 13, below a 1947 record for the date and 85 cm under ...
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A simulated AMOC collapse in an unreviewed preprint cut wheat, corn and rice harvests in Germany and Ukraine by roughly 16 to 19 percent, and cereal prices cou…

AMOC collapse could cut wheat, corn and rice calories 5.3% worldwide and up to 19% in Germany and Ukraine, a new ALLFED ...