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Many of the World’s Lakes Are in Trouble. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Headlines:

Drought in the West leads one governor to ask residents to pray for rain.

The Biden administration suspends some drilling leases in Alaska but supports a fossil fuel project in a separate sensitive Arctic landscape.

In an alarming trend, freshwater lakes are losing oxygen at a rate three to nine times faster than the oceans.

In the latest “land back” effort by indigenous people, a tribe in Maine has reclaimed an island taken nearly 200 years ago.

Elephants use their trunks as a suitcase.