Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drought-stressed leaves turned brown near the University of Houston campus during the fall of 2023 after a scorching summer that ...

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This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Taking shovels and buckets to a dried-up sandy belt of the Vhombozi River in Zimbabwe last August, groups of ...