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UK recalls navy vessels as Jersey standoff with France eases
May 06, 2021 (AFP)
The latest blow to cross-Channel relations was caused by angry French fishermen protesting over new fish licensing arrangements on the Channel island following ...
UK sends Navy ships to Jersey as French fishing row escalates
May 05, 2021 (AFP)
France warned Tuesday it was weighing its response after the UK imposed rules governing access for French fishing boats near the Channel Islands, and said it co...
Breakthrough technology introduced to combat growing global water crisis
May 05, 2021 (SPX)
"There is a water disaster facing billions of people right now. Today, we are announcing our breakthrough combination of technology that provides the "Missing P...
1.5C warming cap could 'halve' sea level rise from melting ice
May 05, 2021 (AFP)
Since 1993, melting land ice has contributed to at least half of global sea level rise and scientists have previously warned that the vast ice sheets of Antarct...
Red Sea corals to persist, even as other corals succumb to global warming
May 04, 2021 (UPI)
When marine heatwaves strike, the algae that provide corals with nutrients and their vibrant colors abandon their homes. The phenomenon, known as coral bleachin...
Tiny ocean plants called diatoms use a single carbon capture pathway
May 03, 2021 (UPI)
According to a new study, published Monday in the journal Frontiers in Plant Sciences, diatoms mostly use a single cellular pathway to capture and concentrate C...
Baby mantis shrimp is born ready to fight, researchers say
Apr 30, 2021 (UPI)
The study, published this week in The Journal of Experimental Biology, shows that the larvae of the Philippine mantis shrimp, gonodactylaceus falcatus, develop ...
How donkeys digging wells help life thrive in the desert
Apr 29, 2021 (AFP)
A new study published Thursday shows they're also friends to desert animals and plants, by digging deep wells that provide a vital source of water, especially a...
Intervention 'could buy 20 years' for declining Great Barrier Reef
Apr 29, 2021 (AFP)
The reef faces "precipitous declines" in coral cover over the next five decades due to "intense pressure" from climate change, a study published in the peer-rev...
National lab, municipal power utility test energy storage for small hydropower generation
Apr 28, 2021 (SPX)
Working with Idaho Falls Power, a municipally owned utility, INL researchers this week performed tests to see how the city's turbines and generators might be ra...
In the deep sea, subsurface microbes are plentiful and hungry
Apr 28, 2021 (UPI)
Scientists knew there were microbes living beneath the ocean floor, but until now, little was known about their energy requirements. For the study -- the result...
In Florida, a worrying uptick in manatee deaths
Apr 28, 2021 (AFP)
Others have not been so lucky: the gentle marine mammals are dying at an unprecedented rate in Florida, and there are not enough animal hospital "beds" to handl...
Fiji fears virus 'tsunami' after outbreak found to be Indian variant
Apr 27, 2021 (AFP)
The Pacific country had largely dodged community transmission before a cluster emerged this month centred on a quarantine facility in Nadi, the city that is hom...
Navy mine countermeasures unit uses undersea drones in exercise
Apr 26, 2021 (UPI)
A 27-person platoon of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 2 completed a pre-deployment Expeditionary Mine Countermeasures Advanced Certification Exercise a...
Hatchery reviving Britain's near-extinct local oysters
Apr 24, 2021 (AFP)
At Portsmouth University's Institute of Marine Sciences, huge piles of empty oyster shells are stacked in the courtyard, ready for the young oyster larvae to mo...
This supermoon has a twist
Apr 24, 2021 (The Conversation)
Exceptionally high tides are common when the moon is closest to the Earth, known as perigee, and when it's either full or new. In the case of what's informally ...
Navigating beneath the Arctic ice
Apr 23, 2021 (SPX)
For scientists to understand the role this changing environment in the Arctic Ocean plays in global climate change, there is a need for mapping the ocean below ...
In Peru, pre-Columbian canals offer hope against drought
Apr 22, 2021 (AFP)
Known locally as "amunas", the water-retention system is thought to have been devised by ancient people who lived in what is now the Huarochiri province some 1,...
Twenty percent of groundwater wells around the world at risk of running dry
Apr 22, 2021 (UPI)
Groundwater wells are the main source of water for roughly half the globe's population, but over the last half-century, many of the planet's major aquifers have...
Sinkholes fill Turkey's breadbasket in drought
Apr 22, 2021 (AFP)
"The drought situation is getting worse," said farmer Tahsin Gundogdu, whose harvest includes potatoes he sells to the US food giant PepsiCo. The 57-year-old ha...
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