Mount Everest is many things. It’s called Chomolungma in Tibetan, and Sagarmatha in Nepali. It’s an iconic part of Earth’s topography, a potentially lethal climbing challenge and a geologic marvel. It’s also staggeringly tall — and, with a peak 29,0
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The world’s largest river is parched. The Amazon River, battered by back-to-back droughts fueled by climate change, is drying up, with some stretches of the mighty waterway dwindling to shallow pools only a few feet deep. Water levels along several