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Sudan state media say Nile dam talks to resume Sunday
Jan 02, 2021 (AFP)
The three countries have held multiple rounds of talks since Ethiopia broke ground on the project in 2011 but they have so far failed to produce an agreement on...
Desalination breakthrough could lead to cheaper water filtration
Jan 01, 2021 (SPX)
Desalination membranes remove salt and other chemicals from water, a process critical to the health of society, cleaning billions of gallons of water for agricu...
Scientists figure out how to make desalination membranes more efficient
Dec 31, 2020 (UPI)
Despite their widespread deployment, scientists have struggled to identify the material characteristics that influence the efficiency of desalination membranes....
Egypt summons Ethiopian diplomat over dam comments
Dec 31, 2020 (AFP)
The Egyptian ministry "summoned the Ethiopian Charge d'Affaires in Cairo to explain comments by the spokesperson for the Ethiopian Ministry for Foreign Affairs ...
Caspian crisis: Sinking sea levels threaten biodiversity, economy and regional stability
Dec 30, 2020 (SPX)
Coastal nations are rightly worried about a sea level rise, but in the countries around the Caspian Sea over a hundred million people are facing the opposite pr...
U.S. Navy trains Croatian navy in underwater mine disposal
Dec 30, 2020 (UPI)
The three-week session in December at the Lora Naval Base in Split, Croatia, on the Adriatic Sea, involved U.S. sailors from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile ...
Brexit deal puts UK fishermen in uncharted waters
Dec 29, 2020 (AFP)
Britain had insisted it wanted to take back control of its waters while EU coastal states sought guarantees that their fleets could keep fishing in UK waters. "...
U.S. Coast Guard Stone to patrol illegal fishing in South Atlantic
Dec 29, 2020 (UPI)
The USCGC Stone, a new Legend-class security cutter that completed acceptance trials in October, left from Pascagoula, Miss., on Dec. 23. This deployment is the...
Oyster shells given new life as reefs off Texas coast
Dec 25, 2020 (AFP)
Sitting in the shade of a palm tree on a warm winter's day, the diners have no idea that behind the restaurant a woman is busy giving the shells a second life. ...
DARPA launches program to mitigate coastal flooding, erosion and storm damage
Dec 21, 2020 (SPX)
Current DoD coastal protection measures, including bulkhead and coastal seawalls, may reflect wave energy, exacerbate flooding, create downstream sediment loss,...
Cambodia's giant life-giving Tonle Sap lake in peril
Dec 21, 2020 (AFP)
More than a million people live on or around the lake, the world's largest inland fishery, but water levels have plummeted and fish stocks dwindled because of c...
DARPA selects teams to capture potable water from air
Dec 21, 2020 (SPX)
The goal of the AWE program is to provide fresh water for a range of military, stabilization, and humanitarian needs through the development of small, lightweig...
Pandemic disrupted commercial fishing in Northeast, study finds
Dec 18, 2020 (UPI)
Though many fishers suffered a decline in income, survey results -- published Thursday in the journal PLOS One -- suggest many were able to adapt and continue f...
US Navy to be 'more assertive' in countering China in Pacific
Dec 18, 2020 (AFP)
In a document setting objectives for the US Navy, Marines and Coast Guard for the coming years, the Pentagon stressed that several countries, notably Russia and...
Ice sheet uncertainties could mean models underestimate sea level rise
Dec 18, 2020 (UPI)
The research, published Friday in the journal One Earth, suggests even the world's best sea level rise prediction models are riddled with uncertainty. Many of t...
Well drilling thrives as Caracas water supply flounders
Dec 17, 2020 (AFP)
Using a huge drill to perforate the soil, Araya struck the underground aquifer below an apartment bloc in Caracas' comfortable Los Palos Grandes neighborhood so...
More than 1 million barriers on Europe's rivers: study
Dec 16, 2020 (AFP)
Although the rivers have been dammed, forded or bridged for centuries, there is a surprising lack of detailed databases of the continent's waterways. Most only ...
Sea Level Projections Drive San Francisco's Adaptation Planning
Dec 15, 2020 (JPL)
Behar is climate program director for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. He tracks the latest climate science and leads the translation of that work...
The moon controls the release of methane in Arctic Ocean
Dec 15, 2020 (SPX)
The total amount of methane in the atmosphere has increased immensely over the past decades, and while some of the increase can be ascribed to human activity, o...
Australia's Byron Bay beach shrinks as sand disappears
Dec 15, 2020 (AFP)
The tourist hotspot's main beach has been reduced to a thin strip by a sand-shifting phenomenon known as "headland bypassing". Recent wild storms have then erod...
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