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Scientists defend UNESCO in row with Australia over Great Barrier Reef
Jul 01, 2021 (AFP)
The UN's cultural agency "made the right decision to recommend that the world's most iconic Reef system be inscribed on the List of World Heritage In Danger," s...
China to pause squid fishing in Pacific, Atlantic breeding grounds
Jun 29, 2021 (AFP)
China reels in as much as 70 percent of the global squid catch, and its vessels sail as far as West Africa and Latin America to sate the growing appetite for se...
World's second-largest hydropower dam goes online in China
Jun 28, 2021 (AFP)
The 289-metre (948 feet) high Baihetan Hydropower Station in southwest China, second in the world only to the country's Three Gorges Dam in terms of power gener...
Invasive Japanese seaweed threatens French Mediterranean coast
Jun 25, 2021 (AFP)
The green algae, rugulopteryx okamurae, poses a health risk because once it washes up on rocks and beaches it begins to decompose and emit hydrogen sulfide, a p...
Amazon hydropower plant contributes significant greenhouse emissions: study
Jun 25, 2021 (AFP)
Developers have built hundreds of hydroelectric plants in the Amazon basin to take advantage of the allegedly "green" energy generated by its complex of rivers....
Harvesting drinking water from humidity around the clock
Jun 24, 2021 (SPX)
Further away from the coast, practically often the only remaining option is to condense atmospheric humidity through cooling, either through processes that simi...
Top EU court raps Spain over wetlands
Jun 24, 2021 (AFP)
The massive park in the southern region of Andalusia boasts a diverse ecosystem of lagoons, marshlands, scrub woodland, beaches and sand dunes and is home to fa...
Coastal cities face their mortality on the climate 'frontline'
Jun 23, 2021 (AFP)
Domination of the seas allowed many coastal cities to become trading powerhouses and cultural melting pots. But now that strength is becoming a liability as cli...
New sea-level monitoring satellite goes live
Jun 22, 2021 (ESA)
Sentinel-6 is one of the European Union's family of Copernicus missions but its implementation is the result of an exceptional cooperation between the European ...
Australia to challenge UNESCO downgrade of Great Barrier Reef
Jun 22, 2021 (AFP)
The UN body released a draft report on Monday recommending the reef's World Heritage status be downgraded because of its dramatic coral decline, after years of ...
Danger and demons: Yemen's mysterious 'Well of Hell'
Jun 21, 2021 (AFP)
Closer to the border with Oman than to the capital Sanaa 1,300 kilometres (800 miles) away, the giant hole in the desert of Al-Mahra province is 30 metres wide ...
Underwater robot offers new insight into mid-ocean twilight zone
Jun 18, 2021 (SPX)
This advance in engineering will enable greater understanding of the role these creatures play in transporting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to the deep se...
Wind and waves: A step toward better control of heavy-lift crane vessels
Jun 18, 2021 (SPX)
"Dynamic positioning allows the ship to stay fixed in a certain location, by acting on the thruster," said paper author Simone Baldi, professor in the School of...
Ocean circulation is key to understanding uncertainties in climate change predictions
Jun 18, 2021 (SPX)
The work, by Katinka Bellomo, National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, and colleagues is published in Nature Communica...
Giant deep sea coelacanths live nearly a century, five times longer than thought
Jun 17, 2021 (UPI)
It turn out those early estimates were a bit off the mark. New research -- published Thursday in the journal Current Biology -- suggests coelacanths can live fo...
New Zealand, Fiji deepen military ties amid growing challenges in Pacific
Jun 14, 2021 (UPI)
New Zealand's Defense Minister Andrew Little and Fiji Minister of Home Affairs and Immigration Pio Tikoduadua signed the Status of Forces Agreement in Suva foll...
Titanic sinks compared to the scientific discoveries of Explorer Bob Ballard
Jun 14, 2021 (SPX)
The progression of a documented life by the parents led Ballard to compete to be literate, well-spoken, and more importantly, a dreamer. That dream of a Kodak m...
Drought-hit Jordan to build Red Sea desalination plant
Jun 13, 2021 (AFP)
The cost of the project is estimated at "around $1 billion", ministry of water and irrigation spokesman Omar Salameh told AFP, adding that the plant would be bu...
The rocky road to accurate sea-level predictions
Jun 11, 2021 (SPX)
"Choosing the wrong equations for the under-ice landscape can have the same effect on the predicted contribution to sea-level rise as a warming of several degre...
Ivory Coast prays for rain to ease energy crunch
Jun 09, 2021 (AFP)
"Water is the dam's raw material. Without water, we can't produce electricity." Ivory Coast has been gripped by power cuts since April, when a crash at its main...
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