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Using a robot to deploy robots in remote oceans
Jan 13, 2020 (SPX)
The AutoNaut - an unmanned surface vessel - has been specially-adapted to carry and release an underwater Seaglider. The gliders carry a range of sensors to col...
Historic German island is nursery for North Sea seals
Jan 11, 2020 (AFP)
The Jordsand society, dedicated to preserving North Sea coastal life, has counted more than 520 births since November. Dozens of tourists come each day to see t...
River people: Life along Asia's key waterways
Jan 10, 2020 (AFP)
Climate change, international politics, spiralling population growth, and unchecked development are putting unprecedented strain on key waterways in some of the...
Toward a smarter way of recharging the aquifer
Jan 10, 2020 (SPX)
The original water in the aquifer was chemically stable, in equilibrium with the surrounding rocks, and was slowly recharged by natural processes (water infiltr...
Asia's Great Rivers: Climate crisis, pollution put billions at risk
Jan 10, 2020 (AFP)
Further stressed by extreme heatwaves, erratic monsoons, and pollution, the waterways are in crisis and the lives of hundreds of millions hang in the balance. A...
Chile activists blast Senate for rejecting water status change
Jan 10, 2020 (AFP)
Activists also called on the public to vote in April to change the dictatorship-era constitution so that new rules can be approved around the exploitation of na...
The 97 kms between China and mastery of the Mekong
Jan 10, 2020 (AFP)
China has long wanted to dredge the riverbed in northern Thailand to open passage for massive cargo ships -- and potentially military vessels. Ultimately a link...
Bulgaria's environment minister charged over water crisis
Jan 10, 2020 (AFP)
"The minister of environment has been indicted for deliberate mismanagement for authorising the use of drinking water for industrial needs, despite being repeat...
Ethiopia and Egypt fail to clinch Nile dam deal
Jan 09, 2020 (AFP)
Officials said Thursday that some progress had been made, though they remained at odds over major sticking points, including how fast the dam's reservoir would ...
Underwater robot becomes first to autonomously collect an ocean sample
Jan 09, 2020 (UPI)
The robot, named Nereid Under Ice, or NUI, was designed by WHOI engineers as part of NASA's Planetary Science and Technology from Analog Research program. NUI c...
Atlantic and Pacific oscillations lost in the noise
Jan 07, 2020 (SPX)
Using both observational data and climate model simulations, the researchers showed that there was no consistent evidence for decadal or longer-term internal os...
A close look at thin ice
Jan 07, 2020 (SPX)
In a new Nature paper, an international team of scientists describe the first-ever visualization of the atomic structure of two-dimensional ice as it formed. In...
North Atlantic Current may cease temporarily in the next century
Jan 07, 2020 (SPX)
Simulations by scientists from the University of Groningen and Utrecht University showed that it is unlikely that the current will come to a complete stop, due ...
Wind conditions influence water circulation and CO2 concentrations in the Southern Ocean
Jan 07, 2020 (SPX)
The study, which is published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, used measurements on fossil coral skeletons to reveal t...
Duterte threatens takeover of Manila water firms
Jan 07, 2020 (AFP)
Duterte's government will offer a deal to replace the one first crafted in the 1990s when Manila's troubled water system was privatised and which the president ...
Coral fossils show Southern Ocean current sensitive to wind conditions
Dec 31, 2019 (UPI)
New analysis of fossil coral skeletons suggests the ocean current is especially sensitive to winds, and that changes in the current influence the exchange of CO...
Wetlands will keep up with sea level rise to offset climate change
Dec 30, 2019 (SPX)
In the United States alone, coastal wetlands can offset the yearly carbon dioxide emissions from 800,000 cars. But as sea level rises with climate change, will ...
Seasonal forecasts challenged by Pacific Ocean warming
Dec 30, 2019 (SPX)
The results, published in Nature Climate Change, shed light on how the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) was responding to a changing climate, with implications...
Ethiopia charges 50 for profiteering from Blue Nile dam
Dec 27, 2019 (AFP)
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), set to be Africa's largest hydro-electric dam, has already troubled relations with neighbouring Egypt, which depends...
As drought drags on in Australia, water thieves step in
Dec 19, 2019 (AFP)
The thieves drained the water from two tanks on a property in Evans Plains, a hamlet about three hours west of Sydney in New South Wales state, police said. The...
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