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China spent decades moving water across a continent. The world's largest diversion project now serves 185 million people | World News

August 2, 2026

Representative Image of China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project (AI-generated image) In 2002, China’s State Council formally approved construction…

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August 2, 2026

A binman has explained what you should be doing with batteries when they’re all used up. A binman…

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a huge renewable energy farm in China at sunset

August 2, 2026

Climate change’s impacts are being felt everywhere, from health and food security to extreme weather, sea level rise…

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Property of week: Luxurious CT Tudor with home theater and pool

August 2, 2026

The home demonstrates the many wonderful things that a talented architect starting with a blank sheet of paper…

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Europe's wildfire crisis eases in west as danger shifts east to Greece

August 2, 2026

Europe’s wildfire emergency eased across much of western Europe on Sunday, but its most dangerous front shifted to…

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Japan ends rescue operation at mall that collapsed in strong quake

August 2, 2026

Authorities ended a massive dayslong search-and-rescue operation Saturday at a collapsed shopping mall in southwest Japan following a…

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Impacts of pollution on the soil microbiome

August 2, 2026

Rodríguez-Eugenio, N., McLaughlin, M. & Pennock, D. Soil Pollution: A Hidden Reality (FAO, 2018). Montanerella, L. et al.…

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Dust storms would ground Kalgoorlie-Boulder to a halt, until the people fought back and won

August 2, 2026

Doug Daws remembers when colossal dust storms would regularly strike his outback hometown, grinding life to a halt…

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Fifth-generation family farm at a standstill due to PFAS, sewage contamination

August 2, 2026

The future of Kate Tucker’s family farm is as murky as its waterways, which are sullied with sewage…

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Icelandic coast guards seize Paul Watson Foundation anti-whaling ship and its 21 crew

August 2, 2026

LONDON (AP) — Icelandic coast guards and special forces seized a ship operated by a group founded by…

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Meet Roy Kim, the 13-year-old Oregon student who designed a chamber that turns moisture in the air into water for drought-hit farms

August 2, 2026

“Do what you can do tomorrow, today,” says Roy Kim, a 13-year-old Oregon student who has solved the…

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Heatwave scorching western US ups risk of hazardous fire conditions | US weather

August 2, 2026

A heatwave scorching the western US region has elevated the risk of hazardous fire conditions particularly in parts…

China spent decades moving water across a continent. The world’s largest diversion project now serves 185 million people | World News

Binman settles debate on putting batteries in waste bin or recycling

‘We’re a bit late on the case, but we are on the case’: Author Fred Pearce on the rise of renewables, a defused population bomb, and letting nature find its own way

Property of week: Luxurious CT Tudor with home theater and pool

Europe’s wildfire crisis eases in west as danger shifts east to Greece

Japan ends rescue operation at mall that collapsed in strong quake

Impacts of pollution on the soil microbiome

Dust storms would ground Kalgoorlie-Boulder to a halt, until the people fought back and won

Fifth-generation family farm at a standstill due to PFAS, sewage contamination

Icelandic coast guards seize Paul Watson Foundation anti-whaling ship and its 21 crew

Meet Roy Kim, the 13-year-old Oregon student who designed a chamber that turns moisture in the air into water for drought-hit farms

Heatwave scorching western US ups risk of hazardous fire conditions | US weather