WATER WORLD

News About The Oceans of Earth

6,978 articles

Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia to hold 'daily' talks over Nile dam
Jun 09, 2020 (AFP)
"It was agreed to continue daily meetings, except on Friday and Sunday, to reach consensus on the remaining points," Sudanese Irrigation Minister Yasser Abbas s...
Ocean geoengineering tests violate UN convention: green groups
Jun 08, 2020 (AFP)
On the occasion of World Oceans Day, the Hands Off Mother Earth (HOME) Campaign urged communities and governments to "vigorously oppose" marine geoengineering p...
Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia to resume dam talks Tuesday
Jun 08, 2020 (AFP)
Irrigation and water ministers from the three Nile basin countries will meet via videoconference, Sudan's irrigation ministry said in a statement. "Three observ...
There is still time to save the oceans, says Jacques Cousteau's grandson
Jun 06, 2020 (AFP)
AFP sat down with Philippe Cousteau, an environmentalist and oceanographer in his own right, on the eve of World Oceans Day, held on June 8. The means to saving...
New study reveals cracks beneath giant, methane gushing craters
Jun 05, 2020 (SPX)
The most recent study in Scientific Reports looks into the depths far beneath these craters in the ocean floor and reveals the geological structures that have m...
Two vital buffers against climate change are just offshore
Jun 05, 2020 (SPX)
Of those 31 million people, about 8.5 million directly benefit from the severe weather-protection of mangroves and coral reefs, key buffers that could help cush...
Some fish do better when the shoal is in disorder
Jun 03, 2020 (UPI)
The discovery, detailed this week in the journal Nature Communications, explains why many schools of fish alternate between orderly and disorderly feeding behav...
Jeddah gets caught in the rain
Jun 02, 2020 (SPX)
In 2009, a severe storm in the city claimed 161 lives and caused 1 billion USD worth of damage; however, these potentially devastating storms are also an import...
Hydropower plants to support solar and wind energy in West Africa
May 29, 2020 (SPX)
"Countries in West Africa therefore now have the opportunity to plan this expansion according to strategies that rely on modern, climate-friendly energy generat...
'Water is life': COVID-19 exposes chronic crisis in Navajo Nation
May 29, 2020 (AFP)
The 66 gallons will be used by her family for drinking, washing clothes and bathing -- before the next trip out in two or three days to repeat the back-breaking...
Search-and-rescue algorithm identifies hidden'traps' in ocean waters
May 28, 2020 (SPX)
Now researchers at MIT, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), and Virginia Tech have developed a tec...
Israel picks local firm over Chinese for desalination plant
May 26, 2020 (AFP)
IDE Technologies will build the Sorek 2 plant south of Tel Aviv, which by 2023 should be able to produce 200 million cubic metres a year of desalinated water fr...
The deep ocean is warming slowly - but dramatic changes are ahead
May 26, 2020 (SPX)
The research, led by University of Queensland PhD student Isaac Brito-Morales, looked at how ocean life was responding to climate change. "We used a metric know...
There is no escaping from climate change, even in the deep sea
May 26, 2020 (SPX)
Reporting in the journal Nature Climate Change, an international team of scientists, led by the University of Queensland in Australia and involving Hokkaido Uni...
Mississippi Delta marshes in a state of irreversible collapse
May 25, 2020 (SPX)
A key finding of the study, published in Science Advances, is that coastal marshes experience tipping points, where a small increase in the rate of sea-level ri...
Spiny lobsters make raspy noises that can be heard nearly 2 miles away
May 22, 2020 (UPI)
Scientists hope the study of spiny lobster noises can aid conservation efforts. Due to overfishing, the European spiny lobster is classified as "vulnerable" on ...
Mysterious glowing coral reefs are fighting to recover
May 22, 2020 (SPX)
Many coral animals live in a fragile, mutually beneficial relationship, a 'symbiosis' with tiny algae embedded in their cells. The algae gain shelter, carbon di...
Less water could sustain more Californians if we make every drop count
May 21, 2020 (SPX)
Luthy knows. As a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, as well as director of a National Science Foundation center to re-invent urban w...
Towable sensor free-falls to measure vertical slices of ocean conditions
May 21, 2020 (SPX)
Oceanographers use instruments to characterize the vertical mixing of the ocean's waters and the biological communities that live there. But these tools are lim...
Egypt accepts Ethiopia-Sudan proposal to renegotiate dam dispute
May 21, 2020 (AFP)
"Egypt is always ready to enter into negotiations and participate in upcoming meetings... to reach a fair, balanced and comprehensive agreement," the foreign mi...
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.