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Tagus river at risk of drying up completely.
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Climate change, dams and diversion bring Iberian peninsula’s longest river, on which millions depend, to brink of collapse
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Entrepenas reservoir on the Tagus river in...
Editorial: Policing California’s most precious resource.
Photo: Rich Pedroncelli, Associated Press
In this photo taken July 15, 2015, water flows down a canal near Byron.
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Does the weather influence women's risk for pregnancy diabetes?
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Australian cities to have 50C summer days by 2040, study says.
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Researchers say Sydney and Melbourne would have unprecedented temperatures even if Paris target met
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Researchers say that 50C summer days in Sydney could be...
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