Dry: Three Stories of Adaptation to Life Without Water
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By Schaffer, Daniel; Masood, Ehsan; Ndege, Yvonne; Bagla, Pallava; Mantell, Katie  Up to a billion people live in the drylands of the developing world.
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Liquid economics of bottled water.
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By Millar, Heather  It seems like such a tall order: Proactively plan human activities so that they mesh with the natural environment. Try to approach nature as a system, even though we don't now, and may never, fully understand all of its' complexities.
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By Godschalk, David R  The Multi-Governance of Water: Four Case Studies Matthias Finger, Ludivine Tamiotti, and Jeremy Allouche, editors. State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, 2005. 208 pages. $60, $21.95 (paperback).  This is a sobering book.
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Scientists find water on a distant planet. Someday, maybe they'll find life
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Endurance athlete Mark Cote is a finely tuned physical machine. But still, Cote, 22, of Boston, knows what it's like to become dehydrated. A few years ago, during a long bike ride on a 100-degree day, after consuming only a few ounces of water, Cote found himself in a medic tent after a triathlon.
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Life isn't what it used to be. Just look at 10 of the weirdest beasts that ever roamed the Earth. From Wired magazine.
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By MARK A. GONZALEZ  Day after day, the heavens have delivered what the heavens had denied us for several years - rain, rain and more rain. I've seen water in places where I haven't seen water since the summer of 2001, and before that the summer of 1993.
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By Alicia Chang THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  For decades, scientists have scoured Mars in search of water, a basic ingredient for primitive life.  But the best clues were always tied to the ancient past when the Red Planet was warmer and wetter.
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Studying the zebra fish spinal cord, grooming habits of the Barbary macaque and the regional impact of dams.
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A puffer fish genome sequence sheds light on human biology, and tells a twisted evolutionary story. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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A Nepalese Sherpa fears his mountain valley will be flooded by melting glacier runoff high in the Himalayas. A Fiji islander frets about rising sea levels, while villagers cope with the destruction of mangrove swamps in India.
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Every so often, nature reminds humans why we once feared it. And once in a while, we remember in turn what makes us human. In the terrible wake of the tsunamis in Southeast Asia--so vast their counterparts
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Editors: Shlomo Reifman and Samantha N. Wong Researchers: Joshua Brandt, Fei Mei Chan,  Andrew T. Gillies, Soo Jeong, Edward Knudsen,  Artie Kwok, John Ray and Jody Yen Programmer: Carl Subick
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Smart clothing that adjusts to body temperature and moisture is being developed by British researchers. Their inspiration: pine cones.
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Hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires: a year after Katrina, a tour of the American hazardscape shows that we haven't learned much
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By Audra D.S. Burch And Kathleen Mcgrory, The Miami Herald  Jun. 28--The epic drought gripping Lake Okeechobee has opened a mud-spattered window into Florida's prehistoric past.