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Eco-friendly Jack-in-the-Box?
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA --The environment's newest ally comes…
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Melbourne residents face long-term water restrictions
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Melbourne, Australia is likely to stay on water restrictions…
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Video: Blackwater: Man Vs. Mill
Dianhua Paper Mill discharged wastewater into a lagoon, killing sheep, sickening people, and damaging grasslands.
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Video: Desert Overtaking Inner Mongolia
Changes in patterns of precipitation in an already parched region, leading to severe shortages of freshwater.
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Video: Looking Out on My Homeland
Traditional nomadic culture on the steppes of Inner Mongolia was defined by the insistence of wind, herding, and the search for water.
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Blackwater: Rare Court Victory in Pollution Case
Dianhua Paper Mill discharged wastewater into a lagoon, killing sheep, sickening people, and damaging grasslands.
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A Track to Modern Nomads
East Umchjin County, near the border with Mongolia, a place renowned for what Chinese scientists call "typical grasslands.
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Drinking Milk Tea
An Inner Mongolia herder, confined by the government to a small pasture for his animals, is nevertheless more fortunate than some.
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A Vast Chinese Grassland, a Way of Life Turns to Dust
600 miles north of Beijing the whole of the largest contiguous grasslands on Earth opens to the horizon.
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A Driving Rain in Northern Michigan; Rings Around Southwest’s Deepening Drought
By Keith Schneider
Circle of Blue Senior Editor
(posted from…
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Defining drought: A duty to see
At the opening reception last week for Water Stories at the…