water stress
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How Climate Change Impacts Our Water
Climate change disrupts the water cycle in ways that could profoundly alter how we live our lives.
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Swapping Where Crops are Grown Could Feed an Extra 825 Million People
It could also reduce water stress, according to a new study that includes 14 major food crops from around the world.
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Could Global Warming’s Top Culprit Help Crops?
Study Looks at How Carbon Dioxide Might Cut Effects of Rising Heat
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U.S. Drought Risk Wider than Previously Thought
New research from the Columbia Water Center suggests that many more places in the United States are at risk of drought-induced water stress than is commonly thought, including dense metropolitan regions such as New York City and Washington, D.C.

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