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Amin Salah used to grow wheat near the banks of Iraq’s Euphrates River, but persistent droughts have led him to switch to farming unlikely new grounds deep in the harsh desert of Najaf. Watered by sprinklers fitted to wells dug more than…

More than half of the world’s largest lakes shrank over the last three decades, researchers report in the May 19 Science. That’s a big problem for the people who depend on those lakes for drinking water and irrigation. Drying lakes also…