Collective groundwater pumping by millions of farmers in Bangladesh has created vast natural reservoirs underground that rival the world’s largest dams, sustaining irrigation that has transformed this previously famine-prone country to a food-secure nation, finds a new UCL study.
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A team of international scientists led by NTU Singapore has found that many densely populated coastal cities worldwide are vulnerable to sea level rise because large amounts of their land are sinking.
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A Better Understanding of Crop Yields Under Climate Change
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