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Arizona's aware groundwater is drying up. This ASU study says it's happening across the globe
KJZZ - Arizona
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August 25, 2025
New research finds the planet has experienced an unprecedented loss of freshwater since 2002. And, the study shows more than half of that water loss is coming from groundwater. The data, published in the journal Science Advances, also finds about...
Tried and tested on an Arctic expedition: The ultimate through-hiking kit list
Evening Standard
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August 25, 2025
On a long expedition, your backpack can be your best friend or your worst enemy. A correctly sized, well-fitted bag will safely stow all of your kit and sit comfortably on your back, distributing your weight appropriately between your hips and...
Southwest in a ‘mega-drying’ zone due to groundwater loss
The Missoula Current - Montana
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August 25, 2025
Spencer Heaps (Utah News Dispatch) The American Southwest – including Arizona, New Mexico, and portions of Nevada, Colorado, Utah and California – is linked to one of four continental-scale “mega-drying” regions worldwide that have undergone...
Area man’s solo paddle of Georgian Bay five years in the making
Midland Today
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'When you do it well and right and your body is in tune with the boat and the water – you’re wonderfully connected to the whole world,' says retiree He’s kayaked all over the world, but the best water avid kayaker David Yanowski, 69 has...
Sierra Serenity
Manteca Bulletin - California
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August 25, 2025
Tenaya Lake offers not just respite from the valley heat but it is also an easy-to-access slice of the quintessential high Sierra lake experience. Unlike almost all of the 2,000 plus other lakes of glacial origins scattered along the 430-mile...
Colorado Senator shows support for the Colorado community fighting Buc-ee's development
KOAA News 5 - Colorado
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August 25, 2025
PALMER LAKE, Colo. (KOAA) — In the ongoing dispute over whether or not a Buc-ee's gas station should be built along County Line Road between Douglas and El Paso County is seeing national attention, now from Federal Lawmakers. Colorado Democratic...
Orsted Shares Drop as US Halts Offshore Rhode Island Wind Farm
World Energy News - Connecticut
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Shares in Orsted plunged 17% on Monday after the U.S. halted the Danish company's Revolution Wind project off Rhode Island amid President Donald Trump's pushback on renewable energy investments. Orsted, the world's biggest offshore wind farm...
Campaigners want to change the world map to show Africa is bigger
The Independent
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August 22, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Incredible animals that have basically discovered immortality
AOL
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For ages, people have chased immortality through myths, ocean voyages, and frozen science experiments. In the meantime, some animals seem to have stumbled on it already. They don’t age in familiar ways, and a few manage to escape aging entirely....
Geoengineering and Flights of Fancy
Brownstone
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August 19, 2025
Geoengineering in the form of modifying the weather happens. It can save decimation of farmer livelihoods by mitigating droughts, and it can risk the global food supply by reducing crop growth. Like nuclear fission, it’s useful in the hands of...
Orsted shares plummet 17% as US halts $1.5bn wind farm off Rhode Island
BusinessLIVE
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Copenhagen — Shares in Orsted plunged 17% on Monday after the US halted the Danish company’s Revolution Wind project off Rhode Island amid President Donald Trump’s pushback on renewable energy investments. Orsted, the world’s biggest offshore wind...
Our Words Are Our Weapons
Utne Reader
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. As in 2004 and 2008, Rebecca Solnit and her blue-state henchwomen and men will probably invade northern Nevada on election week to swing with one of the most swinging states in the union. She...
12 best family hotels in Copenhagen for kids and adults to enjoy a city break
The Independent
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August 22, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Orsted shares sink to record lows as US halts wind farm off Rhode Island
The Gazette - Colorado
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By Stine Jacobsen, Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Soren Jeppesen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Shares in Orsted plunged 17% on Monday after the U.S. halted the Danish company's Revolution Wind project off Rhode Island amid President Donald Trump’s pushback...
Linklogis and XRP Ledger Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance Global Digital Supply Chain Finance Applications
The Laotian Times
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August 25, 2025
SHENZHEN, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 25 August 2025 – Recently, Linklogis (9959.HK), a leading Chinese supply chain fintech service provider, announced a strategic partnership with XRPL, a globally renowned enterprise-grade blockchain...
New study reveals the role of subtle changes of Northern Westerlies in the East Asian monsoon variability
EurekAlert!
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The new research titled "Interstadial diversity of East Asian summer monsoon linked to changes of the Northern Westerlies", published in Nature Communications at 10 am, August 25, 2025 (London time) (https://www.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63057-2)...
Fighter jets scrambled to intercept Russian spy plane off Alaska
CBS News
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The United States military scrambled fighter jets Sunday to intercept a Russian spy plane flying near Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said. It was the third time in less than a week that U.S. forces deployed planes after a...
Orsted shares sink to record lows after US halts near-complete offshore wind farm
The Gazette - Colorado
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By Stine Jacobsen, Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Soren Jeppesen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Shares in Orsted slid 17% on Monday after the U.S. halted the Danish company's Revolution Wind project off Rhode Island, adding to concerns about the future of the...
Metallic beads in Arctic mud suggest a comet slammed into Earth not long ago
Earth.com
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Tiny metallic beads hiding in deep Arctic mud have reignited a long-running argument about why Earth shivered 12,800 years ago. The new evidence comes from four sediment cores lifted out of Baffin Bay, between Greenland and Canada, that capture a...
Digging into Ireland’s Ice Age legacy could improve sea level predictions
Medill Reports - Illinois
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August 22, 2025
By Cathy Ching Medill Reports IRELAND – Ireland and much of Northern Europe was once buried under a large ice sheet tens of thousands of years ago. Today, long after the ice has retreated, the land is still reshaping itself like a mattress slowly...