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Nadir view of the Martian South Pole. (Getty Images / Stocktrek Images)

Did it once snow on Mars?

Elizabeth Howell

Laccaria bicolor mushrooms (Getty Images/Radist)

Mushrooms get chatty after it rains

Heavy snow covers a line of palm trees near a home in Rancho Cucamonga, California, on February 25, 2023. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Why California is still in a drought

Takapuna Normal Intermediate school entrance is flooded on February 01, 2023 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Fiona Goodall/Getty Images)

New Zealand’s wettest month on record

Avery Schuyler Nunn - Grist

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Rain is falling in a wooden barrel (Getty Images/BiancaGrueneberg)

How safe is it to drink rainwater?

Ian Cousins, Bo Sha - The Conversation

Cars sit abandoned on the flooded Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx following a night of heavy wind and rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida on September 02, 2021 in New York City. Numerous people were killed in New York and tornadoes did heavy damage to parts of New Jersey as the evening storm caught many off guard with the severity of its rain and wind and flooding. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Why it’s raining harder than ever

Joseph Winters - Grist

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Don't be unprepared this winter

Salon Marketplace

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Flood water surround homes damaged by Hurricane Harvey, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, in Rockport, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Giant water tunnels won't save

Eric Holthaus - Grist

It closes upside down and inside out

Salon Marketplace

This photo provided by the National Park Service shows dense clouds at the south rim of the Grand Canyon on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014 in Arizona. A rare weather phenomenon on Thursday had visitors looking out to a sea of thick clouds. The total cloud inversion is expected to hang over the Grand Canyon just below the rim throughout the day. (AP Photo/National Park Service, Maci MacPherson) ----- (AP)

Is it possible to harvest rain?

Jeffrey French, Sarah Tessendorf - The Conversation

Red cross teams use boats to evacuate people after river Danube flooded the old town of Passau, southern Germany, on Tuesday, June 4, 2013. Raging waters from three rivers have flooded large parts of the southeast German city following days of heavy rainfall in central Europe. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Europe's ill-timed floods

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central

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James Inhofe (C-Span)

Congress' century-old delusion

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in "Manhattan" (MGM)

Woody Allen's romantic rain

Cynthia Barnett

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Hurricane hysteria, Part 2

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