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In Kenya, a river restoration initiative pays for itself, and then some

Community-led wetland restoration may hold key to Harare’s water crisis

Ever-smarter consumer electronics push world toward environmental brink

Lack of research as contaminated Yaqui River poses health risks

Drought forces Amazon Indigenous communities to drink mercury-tainted water

Crop fields make way for profitable orchards in Bangladesh, imperiling food security

Polluting copper mine in Java suspended as farmers decry lost crops

Acre’s communities face drinking water shortage amid Amazon drought

As waterbodies lose oxygen, are we breaching a potential planetary boundary?

Uttarakhand villagers thirst for water as tourism, temps & development rise

In Sonora, communities fight mining to defend their water

Loss of water means loss of culture for Mexico’s Indigenous Yaqui

Cambodia’s Funan Techo Canal project: A catalog of worries (analysis)

As drought parches Mexico, a Yaqui water defender fights for a sacred river

Activists blame policy failures over climate change for Nepal Terai’s water crisis

‘Water grabs’ pose big threat to farmers amid water crises

Photos: Exploring Mexico City’s Aztec-era farms, the chinampas

Ancient farming system and campesino livelihoods at risk in Mexico City

In Brazil’s Cerrado, aquifers are losing more water than they can replace

Beyond deforestation, oil palm estates pose flood and water contamination risks

An ancient Indigenous lagoon system brings water back to a dry town in Ecuador

Indigenous Bolivians flee homes as backlash to mining protest turns explosive

Indigenous community fights to save its lands on Indonesia’s historic tin island

Rainwater reserves a tenuous lifeline for Sumatran community amid punishing dry season

Critics fear catastrophic energy crisis as AI is outsourced to Latin America

Java rice farmers suffer crop failure as copper mine pollutes local irrigation

Pollution poses big risks to global clean water supplies, study shows

Harsh dry season sours harvest prospects for Java coffee farmers

Locals at the mouth of the Amazon River get a salty taste of climate change

Controversy brews over proposed dam on Kathmandu’s Bagmati River

Andes community-led conservation curbs more páramo loss than state-protected area: Study

Maluku farmers sweat El Niño drought as Indonesia rice prices surge

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