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How do koalas drink? Not the way you might think

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Washington DC, USReuters Scientists have solved a lingering mystery about koala behavior – how these tree-dwelling marsupials native to Australia consume enough water to live. A new study describes koala drinking behavior in the wild for the first time, finding that they lick water running down the smooth surface of tree trunks during rainfall – […]

Some 844 million people struggling to access clean water, says Water Aid

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Some 844 million people are struggling to access clean water, according to revised figures from WaterAid. In its latest annual State of the World’s Water report, the organisation says the figure is 200 million higher than the previous number thanks to a change in the way the information is analysed with anything longer than a 30 […]