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• Drought has Aussie farmers trading water
SYDNEY, Australia - For farmer Malcolm Holm, water now is just like a new shovel or tractor — he has to buy it. The amount of water he is allowed to take from nearby Murrumbidgee River has dwindled to nothing for the past three years because of ...
• Giant cyclones seen on Saturn
Researchers think the storms are powered by heat released from condensing water in thunderstorms deep down in the atmosphere, similar to the way condensing water in clouds on Earth powers hurricane vortices. But unlike Earth's hurricanes, which stem ...
• One fatality in wildfire north of Los Angeles
He went to the nearby Hansen Dam Aquatic Center, a 40-acre water recreation facility. “I thought I would be safe here,” Williams said. The longtime resident said the area hadn’t burned since a large brush fire tore through in 1974. “I didn’t ...
• Mugabe riles Zimbabwe foes as mediator comes
While Zimbabwe's politicians squabble, half the population — 5.1 million people — faces starvation, two-thirds of children are out of school and water shortages have caused to deadly cholera outbreaks in three parts of the country, aid groups say
• Distant spacecraft scans Earth for life
We see water and molecular oxygen in Earth's atmosphere, but Venus also shows these signatures," Piccioni said. "So looking at these molecules is not enough." A more subtle signal that could differentiate the two types of worlds is the so-called red ...