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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-change/simply-put-a-safe-place</loc>
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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-change/the-lakes-we-are-not-draining</loc>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ How a lake takes a town. When the moraine wall fails, the lake empties into the valley in minutes. The trigger gives little warning, but the lake fills in plain sight for years. Illustration.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Tsho Rolpa, 2018 and 2025. One of Nepal’s most dangerous glacial lakes, filling more of the frame as it grows. Imagery: Copernicus Sentinel-2, measured in ATGEO; figure ±~30%, consistent with ICIMOD’s reported expansion.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ The arithmetic of the danger. Named lakes shown; ICIMOD-UNDP (2020) count 21 potentially dangerous lakes in Nepal. South Lhonak, in Sikkim, burst on the night of 3 October 2023.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ The last mile. The river gauges meant to warn the towns below were among the first things the flood destroyed. Illustration.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ A pipe against a mountain of water. For years, siphons bled South Lhonak down to buy the valley a little time. In October 2023, it was not nearly enough. Illustration.]]></image:caption>
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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/health/how-pond-algae-led-to-a-nobel-prize-and-a-new-way-to-study-the-brain</loc>
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<lastmod>2026-10-06T09:33:20.866Z</lastmod>
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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/wildlife-biodiversity/a-golden-jackal-in-kachchhs-mangroves-how-our-research-found-a-grassland-mesocarnivore-in-a-tidal-forest</loc>
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<lastmod>2026-10-06T09:30:54.864Z</lastmod>
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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-change/extreme-heat-related-pregnancy-complications-rising-putting-pregnant-women-new-borns-at-risk</loc>
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<lastmod>2026-10-06T07:09:13.553Z</lastmod>
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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/agriculture/favourable-weather-gives-kashmirs-paddy-farmers-their-best-harvest-in-years</loc>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Farmers harvest paddy in a field as the harvesting season progresses in Kashmir. ]]></image:caption>
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<lastmod>2026-10-06T06:26:02.011Z</lastmod>
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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-change/daily-weather-tracker-monsoon-retreat-brings-rain-and-thunderstorms-to-north-india-heavy-showers-in-south</loc>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Photo for representation.]]></image:caption>
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<lastmod>2026-10-06T05:56:01.465Z</lastmod>
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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/health/pneumonic-plague-fears-in-siberia-after-lab-workers-death</loc>
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