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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…

The Stream, July 26: Astronomers Find the Biggest Mass of Water in the Universe

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Astronomers have discovered the largest and oldest reservoir…

The Stream, July 18: Texas Enacts Fracking Disclosure Rule

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Texas became the first U.S. state to require energy companies…

American Arsenic: After a Decade, Small Communities Still Struggle to Meet Federal Drinking Water Standards

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When the EPA lowered the arsenic standard for drinking water from 50 parts per billion to 10 in 2001, there were 3,000 water systems in violation. Today, nearly a thousand still are.

The Stream, July 8: Global Warming Trends

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Global warming and the melting of the polar caps is worse than…

The Stream, May 24: Water Business

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IPS interviews Chilean environmentalist Sara Larraín about Patagonia's…

The Stream, April 1: Hydrocarbons

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After recent reports on NPR and The New York Times, this week…

The Stream, March 14: Water and Food

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts that the 2010-11…

The Stream, March 9: New Water

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Singapore plans to more than triple its desalinated water capacity…

The Stream, February 24: The Scale of Shale

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Will Europe replicate the shale gas boom in the United States?…

The Stream, February 17: Water + Climate

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Climate change made the floods that inundated England and Wales…

EPA Releases Draft Assessment of Environmental Effects of Biofuels

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Preliminary report describes an infant cellulosic biofuels industry with a mandate to grow up fast.