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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-29T08:00:45.000Z",
  "site": "https://reasonstobecheerful.world",
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    "climate",
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  "textContent": "This story was originally published by New Mexico Rivers Rising, an independent project dedicated to covering New Mexico’s waterways and wetlands and the challenges they face in a warming world. For river ecosystems to survive dry times, they need their floods — and big, messy floodplains. In a case study recently published...\n\nThe post Letting a River Act Like a River appeared first on Reasons to be Cheerful.",
  "title": "Letting a River Act Like a River"
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