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Hundreds of sea level studies have underestimated ocean rise

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How to scout a safe summer swimming hole

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A sewer line collapse in Maryland earlier this year spilled more than 360 Olympic-sized swimming pools’ worth of wastewater into the Potomac river just upstream of Washington, D.C. The incident may be the largest sewage spill in U.S. history,and it’s a quintessential example of fecal pollution, the most common source of sickness from natural waterways. Anytime we swim in a lake, river or ocean, we risk encountering waterborne pathogens.
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Clouds of water ice thread stellar nurseries in the Milky Way

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A vast, frozen fog of interstellar ice has been charted across expanses of the Milky Way, poised to supply water to newborn worlds. Reaching hundreds of light-years in length, the icy clouds drape two of the galaxy’s active star-forming regions, astronomer Gary Melnick and colleagues report in the April 20 Astrophysical Journal.
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