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Scientists try 'cloud brightening' to protect Great Barrier Reef
Apr 17, 2020 (AFP)
In an attempt to cool waters around the reef by making clouds reflect more sunlight, researchers said they used a boat-mounted fan similar to a snow cannon to s...
Biorobotics is the future of fish farming
Apr 17, 2020 (SPX)
The Head of TalTech Centre for Biorobotics, Professor Maarja Kruusmaa says, "In order to effectively observe fish in their natural state, a technology is needed...
Additions to resource industry underwater robots can boost ocean discoveries
Apr 16, 2020 (SPX)
Scientists from around the globe, led by Dianne McLean and Miles Parsons from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), are urging closer ties between ...
Estuaries are warming at twice the rate of oceans and atmosphere
Apr 16, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers say the apparent accelerated impact from climate change on estuaries could adversely affect economic activity and ecological biodiversity in rivers ...
74 mn in Arab world lack hand-washing facility: UN
Apr 15, 2020 (AFP)
This includes 31 million people in Sudan, more than 14 million in war-torn Yemen and 9.9 million in Egypt, a UN report said. "While it has been agreed worldwide...
What is the origin of water on Earth?
Apr 14, 2020 (SPX)
Such a catastrophic event should have vaporized any pre-existing water, leaving behind a dry Earth. After the giant impact catastrophe, we have thus two options...
UN denounces water cuts to millions in Libya's Tripoli
Apr 11, 2020 (AFP)
"More than two million people, including 600,000 children, who live in Tripoli and surrounding towns and cities, are suffering from water cuts for almost a week...
NASA calls on gamers, citizen scientists to help map world's corals
Apr 10, 2020 (SPX)
During the past several years, researchers at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley have developed new instruments that can look below the ...
What is fluid lensing
Apr 10, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers at NASA's Ames Research Center, in California's Silicon Valley, are focused on solving this problem with fluid lensing, a technique for imaging thro...
Hidden armies of crown of thorns starfish can devastate coral reefs
Apr 09, 2020 (UPI)
New research suggests crown of thorns starfish can delay their dietary switch for 6.5 years, proliferating on reefs as coral recover. These hidden armies can de...
NASA study adds a pinch of salt to El Nino models
Apr 08, 2020 (SPX)
ENSO is an irregular cycle of warm and cold climate events called El Nino and La Nina. In normal years, strong easterly trade winds blow from the Americas towar...
Biodiversity hotspots could become first generation of high seas marine protected areas
Apr 08, 2020 (SPX)
This increase is cause for concern to people like UC Santa Barbara researchers Douglas McCauley, Morgan Visalli and Benjamin Best, who are interested in the hea...
Climate change triggers Great Barrier Reef bleaching
Apr 08, 2020 (SPX)
"We surveyed 1,036 reefs from the air during the last two weeks in March, to measure the extent and severity of coral bleaching throughout the Barrier Reef regi...
How old are whale sharks? Nuclear bomb legacy reveals their age
Apr 07, 2020 (SPX)
It's the first time the age of this majestic species has been verified. One whale shark was an estimated 50 years old when it died, making it the oldest known o...
The ocean's 'biological pump' captures more carbon than expected
Apr 07, 2020 (SPX)
Scientists have long known that the ocean plays an essential role in capturing carbon from the atmosphere, but a new study from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institu...
Breakthrough in unlocking genetic potential of ocean microbes
Apr 07, 2020 (SPX)
The international project, co-led by scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK, unlocks the potential of the largest untapped genetic resource...
Great Barrier Reef suffers worst-ever coral bleaching: scientists
Apr 06, 2020 (AFP)
James Cook University professor Terry Hughes said a comprehensive survey last month found record sea temperatures had caused the third mass bleaching of the 2,3...
Electric jolt to carbon makes better water purifier
Apr 06, 2020 (SPX)
Various nanocarbons are being studied and used for purifying water and wastewater by adsorbing dyes, gases, organic compounds and toxic metal ions. These nanoca...
GeoSpectrum Technologies launches game changing LF active VDS deployable by USVs
Apr 06, 2020 (SPX)
With overall system weight reduced to approx. 40% of the already compact TRAPS, TRAPS-USV allows surface vessels and USVs as small as 12 meters long, to be equi...
Study shows six decades of change in plankton communities
Apr 06, 2020 (SPX)
Involving leading marine scientists from across the UK, led by the University of Plymouth, the research for the first time combines the findings of UK offshore ...
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