Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit with a vulgar name that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear?
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The hidden engineering of floating bridges
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We are setting out to rewild an Icelandic wetland in a complex project involving birds, freshwater habitats and large areas of degraded peatland
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We can terraform the American West
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From sewage and scum to swimming in ‘blue gold’: how Switzerland transformed its rivers
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In Norway, lake-harvested cocktail ice is an old business making a quiet comeback
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Report reveals world's fourth largest lake, the Aral Sea has shrunk to create a toxic desert
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America's largest reservoir sees rising water levels after decades of depletion thanks to conservation in California
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We've been helping rewild this quarry for a few years now and the transformation has been wonderful to witness
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How cities run dry
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A melting Alaska glacier keeps inundating Juneau
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The Danish lakelands of the Jutland peninsula unfurl like giant droplets in a region ripe for kayaking, wild swimming and languid summer walks
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Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes
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Microplastics in the mud – Finnish lake sediments help us get to the bottom of plastic pollution
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Utah officials sued over failure to save Great Salt Lake: ‘Trying to avert disaster’
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Nick Offerman’s annual family trip was always to the same lake in Minnesota, where he was taught things that really matter
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The first (and now last) overhead wire electric ferry in Europe
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Tulare lake is re-emerging in California, and farms and communities are going underwater
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Why river channels shift and meander, and what tools engineers use to manage the process (Part 1)
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I got some cool drone footage along Lake Superior on a cold winter day
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Emergency measures needed to rescue Great Salt Lake from ongoing collapse
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Some gorgeous top-roping on the North Shore of Superior
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Pakistan's deadly floods have created a 100km-wide inland lake, satellite images show
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Why the US Army electrifies this water
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How 60,000 metric tons of salt are harvested from one of the world’s saltiest lakes
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A volcanic eruption triggers earthquakes and fears of lake methane explosions in eastern Congo
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Drought in Mexico reaches critical levels as lakes dry up
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Mystery of glacial lake floods solved
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Water on Mars: Discovery of three buried lakes intrigues scientists
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Scientists have identified more than fifty new lakes of liquid water lying under the Greenland ice sheet
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This lake now has legal rights, just like you
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Britain's largest battery is actually a lake
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Mars may have underground liquid water
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The Aral Sea is bringing new wealth to fishing villages in Kazakhstan, but their neighbours on the opposite shore in Uzbekistan are suffering a very different fate
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Why are lakes and rivers in the Canadian Rocky Mountains so brilliantly turquoise blue?
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Satellite images capture the spectacular transformation of Lake Eyre
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