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Why Earth's water could be older than Earth itself

How did water survive Earth's searingly hot birth? A radical new answer turns planetary history on its head – and could revolutionise the search for alien life

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Environment

Still waters: The world's most extraordinary freshwater environments

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Technology

Watch a blast of sound turn floating drops into bubbles

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Environment

France going veggie would save 1m litres of water per person each year

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Life

Our thirst for water is turning the oceans saltier

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Environment

A warm-water time bomb could spell disaster for Arctic sea ice

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Technology

Flint water crisis: How AI is finding thousands of hazardous pipes

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Technology

Nanofibre net draws drinking water from the air for drought-hit people

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Health

This doctor risked her career to end Flint’s water-poisoning crisis

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Only 13 per cent of the world's oceans are considered a wilderness

Environment

Only 13 per cent of the world's oceans are considered a wilderness

Human activity touches almost 90 per cent of the ocean, which has left little of the ocean wild – and only a tiny fraction of that wilderness is protected

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Earth

Alarm as ice loss from Antarctica triples in the past five years

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Earth

H2Oh! 10 mysteries of water

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Earth

H2Oh! Water is actually two liquids disguised as one

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Life

Trees may have a ‘heartbeat’ that is so slow we never noticed it

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