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Amid Drought, Some U.K. Residents Fume as Blackstone C.E.O. Fills Private Lake  The New York Times Billionaire’s Water Supply Cut Off After Wasting Millions Filling Private Lake  yahoo.com Trump-supporting billionaire prevented from filling lake on UK estate during drought  The Guardian Southern Water bans tankers doing runs to US billionaire’s lake  BBC Stephen Schwarzman’s country estate hit by water tanker ban  Financial Times Source link

Suzanne BearneTechnology Reporter, Querétaro, Mexico Arterra/Getty Images Querétaro is known for its impressive stone aqueduct Located in the middle of Mexico, Querétaro is a charming and colourful colonial-style city known for its dazzling stone aqueduct. But the city, and state of the same name, is also recognised for a very different reason – as Mexico’s data centre capital. Across the …

A pair of second-generation pecan farmers worry that their future is grim after weather events fueled by the changing climate have led to a year of total crop failure at their orchard in Texas. What’s happening? Texas news station KXXV spoke with Gail and Mark Blanpied, who own Rascoe Pecans. “Those pecans, I don’t know what it was about my …

New cave evidence shows the Maya endured a devastating 13-year drought, helping explain why their once-thriving cities fell into decline. Credit: Shutterstock Deep inside a Mexican cave, a stalagmite has revealed that the Maya civilization faced repeated droughts so extreme that they may have altered history. Researchers discovered that wet-season rainfall failed for years at a time, including a staggering …

ANGIE HAN Once upon a time, when broadcast ruled the roost, summer was a fallow time for TV. The traditional season would end in the spring, to start up again in the fall; it wasn’t that there were no new shows, but they’d be exceptions in a sea of reruns. Of course, that’s all changed in the past couple of …

Overpumping groundwater, worsening droughts and more rapid evaporation due to higher temperatures have caused a drastic decline in the amount of available freshwater, according to a new study. “Continental drying” has redirected the planet’s total water to the oceans to such degree that it has now surpassed melting ice sheets as the biggest contributor to global sea level rise, the …

LONDON — For weeks while back home in Warsaw last year, Iga Swiatek hung out with friends and made new ones, but didn’t dare tell them about a doping case that was hanging over her. “Obviously, in the back of my mind,” she said Saturday evening at the All England Club, “I had this thing.” There was more going on, …