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Seven decades of science
When you've been studying the ways of the atmosphere since the 1930s, you have many tales to tell. Joachim Kuettner has been sharing his life stories, including some lesser-known ones, in a new round of oral and video histories.
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India's diminishing groundwater
The stretch of the subcontinent that runs from eastern Pakistan across northern India into Bangladesh is likely the world's most intensively irrigated region. A new NCAR study shows that between 2002 and 2008, the region depleted groundwater at a rate of around 13 cubic miles per year.
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Arctic Warming Overtakes 2,000 Years of Natural Cooling
Arctic temperatures in the 1990s reached their warmest level of any decade in at least 2,000 years, new research indicates.