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According to a new report from The International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN), a 5-year study involving 200 scientists has found that the flora and fauna of Africa's freshwater ways are threatened with extinction thanks to four main factors: agriculture, water abstraction, dams and invasive species.

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Brazil has received a whole lot of negativity regarding the Belo Monte dam.

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What Hurricane Katrina and many other hurricanes have told us is that wetlands are on the coastlines for a reason -- they act as a vital buffer protecting land from storms coming in from offshore.

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The return of water fountains across cities has been the buzz lately, with places like London restoring old fountains and New York setting up new ones, though thos

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We usually give coal the stink eye for the ways it harms the earth's surface when it is extracted, and the way it harms the earth's systems when it is burned. But we also need to hone in on the way coal harms our fresh water supplies.

Could a simple "tea bag" of carbon and antimacrobial fibers that costs just pennies be the solution for quickly filtered drinking water on the go? Scientists from Stellenbosch University in South Africa hope they've found the solution to drinking water problems in rural African communities.

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China has a water problem. In fact, the only resource constraint standing in the way of their rampant growth is water. There just isn't enough of it, especially in the north.

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Superfund sites are hazardous waste areas that were once abandoned but have (finally) received funding for clean-up efforts.

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The problem of sea level rise is usually discussed in terms of the dislocation of people away from coastlines, or even whole i

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Nitrates are commonly found in groundwater, ending up there after they're used for fertilizing crops or from storm-water run-off.