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Reef-building coral exhibiting 'disaster traits' akin to the last major extinction event
Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)
The research team - which includes scientists from The Graduate Center, CUNY; Baruch College; Scripps Institution of Oceanography; University of Haifa; Universi...
Coral reefs in Turks and Caicos Islands resist global bleaching event
Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)
The researchers report their findings in the Springer Nature journal Applied Sciences. "Boulder-type corals on the Turks and Caicos Islands demonstrated no sign...
Fresh clean drinking water for all could soon to be a reality in Pakistan
Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)
The initiative, led by University of Huddersfield Senior Research Fellow Dr Muhammad Usman Ghori, will transform the water supplies in the region into affordabl...
Half of world's beaches could vanish by 2100
Mar 02, 2020 (AFP)
Even if humanity sharply reduces the fossil fuel pollution that drives global warming, more than a third of the planet's sandy shorelines could disappear by the...
Ethiopia 'disappointed' with US mediation on Nile dam
Feb 29, 2020 (AFP)
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, set to become the largest hydropower plant in Africa, has been a source of tension between Addis Ababa and Cairo since Ethi...
Study explains how the oceans became so diverse
Feb 27, 2020 (UPI)
According to the latest research, the ocean wasn't host to a rapid period of diversification. Likewise, the most diverse groups of marine species don't enjoy hi...
Freshwater flowing into the North Pacific plays key role in North America's climate
Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)
The findings provide new insight into the role the North Pacific Ocean plays in the planet's climate, said Alan Mix, an oceanographer and paleoclimatologist in ...
Why water droplets 'bounce off the walls'
Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)
Collisions between liquid drops and surfaces, or other drops, happen all the time. For example, small water drops in clouds collide with each other to form larg...
Curbing nutrient overload helps coral resist bleaching
Feb 25, 2020 (UPI)
According to a new study, published this week in the journal PNAS, reductions in nutrient pollution help corals avoid bleaching during moderate heatwaves. Sever...
A plan to save Earth's oceans
Feb 24, 2020 (SPX)
Dr Kendall Jones said the international community needed to rapidly increase marine conservation efforts to maintain the health of the world's oceans. "Preservi...
Seeding oceans with iron may not impact climate change
Feb 24, 2020 (SPX)
To help stem escalating carbon dioxide emissions produced by the burning of fossil fuels, some scientists have proposed seeding the oceans with iron - an essent...
Lockheed Martin receives $12.3 million to develop underwater drone
Feb 21, 2020 (UPI)
The contract funds research, development and demonstration of an extra-large underwater drone. According to DARPA, the purpose of the Manta Ray program is to cr...
Extinct South American giant turtle had 10-foot-wide horned shell
Feb 21, 2020 (UPI)
The turtle fossils were recovered from dig sites in Venezuela and Colombia. Today, the northern tip of South America is quite arid and covered in desert sands, ...
Upside-down jellyfish can launch venomous balls of mucus
Feb 21, 2020 (UPI)
As many scientists and recreational swimmers can attest, these jellyfish can elicit a skin reaction from afar -- a sting without contact. Encounters with so-cal...
How climate change reduced the flow of the Colorado River
Feb 20, 2020 (AFP)
Two scientists at the US Geological Survey developed a mathematical model of the water movements -- snowfall, rainfall, run-off, evaporation -- in the upper Col...
Mussels 'cooked alive' in balmy New Zealand ocean
Feb 19, 2020 (AFP)
The dead molluscs were found by Auckland man Brandon Ferguson earlier this month at Maunganui Bluff Beach, near the northern tip of the North Island. Footage po...
Hydropower dams cool rivers in the Mekong River basin, satellites show
Feb 17, 2020 (SPX)
Scientists have been monitoring many environmental effects of dams, including how they affect a river's temperature - and could potentially threaten the fish do...
New DTU research supports previous studies on global sea level rise
Feb 17, 2020 (SPX)
Now, in a new study, a Danish student has shown that the rise is accelerating. In other words, the oceans are rising faster every year. The new research support...
Miros introduces radar-based wave monitoring solutions to Seatronics Global Rental Fleet
Feb 17, 2020 (SPX)
With over 35 years' experience measuring the ocean surface, Miros delivers real-time insights about local sea state and marine conditions, without the need for ...
Blasting 'forever' chemicals out of water with a vortex of cold plasma
Feb 17, 2020 (SPX)
These chemicals, commonly called PFAS - a shortening of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, were used for some 60 years as coatings for nonstick pans and water...
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