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Squid and fish use flashes of light to disorient hungry elephant seals
May 20, 2020 (UPI)
Until now, scientists weren't sure how the hungry, deep-diving predators found their prey in the dark and whether or not the elephants seal mothers face much re...
Two dams fail in US state of Michigan, thousands evacuated
May 20, 2020 (AFP)
Governor Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency in Midland County, site of the breached dams, in the towns of Edenville and Sanford. The National Weathe...
Multiple factors joined forces to devastate the Great Barrier Reef in 2016
May 19, 2020 (SPX)
First, El Nino brought warmer water to the Coral Sea in 2016, threatening Australia's Great Barrier Reef's corals. Long-term global warming meant even more heat...
Scientist finds dozens of unknown submarine landslides in Gulf of Mexico
May 19, 2020 (UPI)
The hidden landslides -- discovered between 2008 and 2015 and described this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters -- could pose a risk to oil rigs, ...
DNA in fish feces reveals which species eat crown-of-thorns starfish
May 18, 2020 (UPI)
The crown-of-thorns starfish isn't invasive, but it is a pest. Since 1962, the species' numbers have exploded three times, decimating coral reefs. Ecologists an...
Shrub encroachment on grasslands can increase groundwater recharge
May 18, 2020 (SPX)
Managed grazing of drylands is the most extensive form of land use on the planet, which has led to widespread efforts to reverse this trend and restore grass co...
Scientists successfully develop 'heat resistant' coral to fight bleaching
May 14, 2020 (SPX)
Corals with increased heat tolerance have the potential to reduce the impact of reef bleaching from marine heat waves, which are becoming more common under clim...
Laos to press ahead with 'destructive' new dam on Mekong
May 12, 2020 (AFP)
The flow of the Mekong, Southeast Asia's longest river, is interrupted by a cascade of dams in China -- where it is called the Lancang. Two downstream dams -- t...
Five surfers die in Dutch beach tragedy
May 12, 2020 (AFP)
Rescue workers retrieved the bodies after a major search following the incident on Monday at Scheveningen, a suburb of The Hague that borders the North Sea. Two...
Sudan rejects Ethiopia's proposal to fill mega-dam
May 12, 2020 (AFP)
"I cannot accept the signing of a draft agreement to the first phase (filling the dam) because it poses legal and technical problems that must be addressed," Su...
Harnessing wave power to rebuild islands
May 12, 2020 (SPX)
Some 40 percent of the world's population lives in coastal areas that are threated by sea level rise over the coming decades, yet there are few proven measures ...
China's new ocean-monitoring satellite passes factory tests
May 11, 2020 (XNA)
It is the country's fourth satellite for monitoring ocean color and an operational satellite for China's civil space infrastructure system, according to the Nat...
Oceans may rise over a metre by 2100, five metres by 2300
May 08, 2020 (AFP)
By 2300, when ice sheets covering West Antarctica and Greenland will have shed trillions of tonnes in mass, sea levels could go up by more than five metres unde...
Going against the warming trend
May 07, 2020 (SPX)
Over the period 1982 to 2011, however, a cooling trend was recorded in surface waters in some parts of the Southern Ocean around the Antarctic continent, specif...
Shedding light on the ocean's living carbon pump
May 07, 2020 (ESA)
Phytoplankton, microscopic, free-floating plants in aquatic systems, play an important role in the global carbon cycle by absorbing carbon dioxide on a scale eq...
Hong Kong seizes fins from 38,500 endangered sharks
May 07, 2020 (AFP)
The record haul was discovered in two containers from Ecuador, and highlights the continued demand for shark fin, which is served at wedding banquets in many Ch...
Climate change could reawaken Indian Ocean El Nino
May 07, 2020 (SPX)
If it comes to pass, floods, storms and drought are likely to worsen and become more regular, disproportionately affecting populations most vulnerable to climat...
A hydrological model leads to advances in the creation of a world water map
May 06, 2020 (SPX)
The research community works on this task with hydrological models, which are tools that enable them to represent processes in the hydrological cycle, and are a...
Oceans should have a place in climate 'green new deal' policies, scientists suggest
May 06, 2020 (SPX)
"The 'green new deal' has been the Oceans should have a place in climate 'green new deal' policies, scientists suggest, but very few have been talking about the...
Shrinking snowcaps fuel harmful algal blooms in Arabian Sea
May 05, 2020 (SPX)
Noctiluca is not a preferred food for larger organisms, so these large blooms, recurring annually and lasting for several months, are disrupting the base of the...
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