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The Stream, August 22: World Water Week 2011

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Deutsche Welle highlights some of the pressing topics on the…
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The Stream, August 11: Australia’s Climate Change Debate

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Climate-change wrangling in Australia has descended into death…
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The Stream, August 3: Of Food and Conflict

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The Shabab Islamist insurgent group in Somalia is blocking starving…
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Weather Extremes: Floods, Droughts, Tornadoes, and Extreme Heat Plague Much of U.S.

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Extreme weather events in 2011 have been numerous and diverse, prompting some analysts to link the natural disasters to climate change. Most recently, many states are under exceptional-drought and extreme-heat advisories.
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The Stream, July 19: Heat Wave in Central U.S.

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The heatwave in the central United States intensified Monday,…
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The Stream, July 15: Central Asia’s Climate-Water-Energy-Food Nexus

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Peabody Energy Corp. will pursue a giant coal-mine project in…
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The Stream, July 12: The Melting Arctic

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TransCanada Corp, the company that hopes to build the Keystone…
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The Stream, July 4: France Bans Fracking

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France became the first country to outlaw hydraulic fracking,…
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The Stream, July 1: North America’s Greenest Cities

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San Francisco is the greenest city in North America, according…
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The Stream, June 24: Xayaburi Dam

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Laos is moving forward with the construction of the controversial…
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Dried Up: Texas Industry and Residents Square Off Over Water as Drought Continues

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With nearly 65 percent of Texas experiencing exceptional drought, water is becoming increasingly precious—and scarce—in a state that has to divide the resource between the growing appetites of farmers, city residents, and energy corporations.
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The Stream, June 14: Italian Referendum Rejects Nuclear Power, Water Privatization

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More than 90 percent of Italians rejected Silvio Berlusconi-era…