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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...
How we transport water in our bodies inspires new water filtration method
Dec 19, 2019 (SPX)
The study, which brought together researchers from UT Austin, Penn State University, the University of Tennessee, Fudan University and the University of Illinoi...
Power shortages grip Zambia as dam levels dip
Dec 18, 2019 (AFP)
Recurring drought across southern Africa has cut the water reserves of the hydroelectric dam of Kariba, the main source of energy of the country. "Water levels ...
Desalination discharge a boon to fish along the coast of Australia
Dec 18, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists at Southern Cross University observed a three-fold increase in fish numbers near the Sydney Desalination Plant's discharge outlet. "There was a 279 p...
Unique form of quartz may power deep-Earth water cycle
Dec 17, 2019 (UPI)
In a new paper, published this week in the journal PNAS, scientists have described for the first time the remarkable water-carrying abilities of the mineral sti...
Drinking water, on demand and from air
Dec 16, 2019 (SPX)
DARPA's new Atmospheric Water Extraction (AWE) program sets out to sharply reduce that risk by giving deployed units the technology to capture potable water on ...
Drainage issues caused Brazil mining dam tragedy, say experts
Dec 12, 2019 (AFP)
The January 25 dam breach in the mineral-rich state of Minas Gerais spewed millions of tons of toxic mining waste across the countryside, leaving 270 people dea...
No, Victoria Falls has not run dry
Dec 12, 2019 (AFP)
The claims were sparked by a YouTube video showing a long stretch of bare cliff-face at Livingstone, on the Zambian side of the world's largest waterfall, in wh...
Bougainville voters back independence by landslide
Dec 11, 2019 (AFP)
Bougainville Referendum Commission chairman Bertie Ahern declared 176,928 people -- around 98 percent of voters -- had backed independence with just 3,043 suppo...
Could dark carbon be hiding the true scale of ocean dead zones
Dec 11, 2019 (SPX)
The regions are created when large amounts of organic material produced by algae sinks towards the seafloor, using up the oxygen present in the deep water. Comp...
Water-scarce Gulf states bank on desalination, at a cost
Dec 11, 2019 (AFP)
But for Oman and the other Gulf countries dominated by vast and scorching deserts, obtaining fresh water from the sea comes at a high financial and environmenta...
Asian water towers are world's most important and most threatened
Dec 10, 2019 (SPX)
The research, published in Nature on Dec. 9, provides evidence that global water towers are at risk, in many cases critically, due to the threats of climate cha...
Stormquakes: Powerful storms cause seafloor tremors
Dec 09, 2019 (SPX)
Catherine de Groot-Hedlin, a researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, was part of the group that first ...
Storms, erosion a costly problem at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Dec 09, 2019 (UPI)
New studies indicate sea level rise is accelerating and will impact low-lying areas, including the space center, sooner than previously thought. The space cente...
35-year data record charts sea-temperature change
Dec 09, 2019 (ESA)
A paper published recently in Nature Scientific Data describes how this new dataset of global sea-surface temperature is one of the longest satellite climate da...
Built on sand: Dutch find unlikely ally against water
Dec 08, 2019 (AFP)
While building on sand has traditionally been a byword for wobbly foundations, the Dutch say they have found a new method to turn the substance into a 50-year w...
Marine life under threat from plummeting oxygen levels
Dec 07, 2019 (AFP)
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said that around 700 sites had been identified globally with low oxygen levels -- up from only 45 ...
Seal takes ocean heat transport data to new depths
Dec 05, 2019 (JPL)
But how the current transfers heat, particularly vertically from the top layer of the ocean to the bottom layers and vice versa, is still not fully understood. ...
Great Barrier Reef study shows how reef copes with rapid sea-level rise
Dec 04, 2019 (SPX)
Using unprecedented analysis of 12 new drilled reef cores with data going back more than 8000 years, the study shows that there have been three distinct phases ...
Troubled waters for Egypt as Ethiopia pushes Nile dam
Dec 03, 2019 (AFP)
"My plot has been thirsty for days. I need the water to nourish the soil before it goes to others," said Omar, 65, whose farm is nestled in a village on the out...
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