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Africa's largest power dam stokes Nile River tensions
Dec 03, 2019 (AFP)
As the neighbours and Sudan met in Cairo for talks Monday and Tuesday on the potential conflict flashpoint, here is some background. - Ten countries - At 6,695 ...
Atlantic haven is a test bed for planet's sickly oceans
Dec 03, 2019 (AFP)
Their mission: To monitor an underwater mountain for clues of global warming and plastic pollution -- and vet the impact of a 12-year-old ban on trawling. Resea...
New maps of salinity reveal the impact of climate variability on oceans
Dec 03, 2019 (ESA)
If you're a keen sea-swimmer, you may have noticed that the water can be saltier in some places than others. This is because the saltiness of the water depends ...
Parrotfish thrive in the wake of coral bleaching
Dec 02, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists at the Australian Institute of Marine Science surveyed fish populations living near a pair of severely bleached reefs, the Great Barrier Reef in the ...
Japan to buy $146 million island for US military drills
Dec 02, 2019 (AFP)
Tokyo and Washington agreed in 2011 to relocate a training site for US fighter jets to Mageshima island, around 30 kilometres off the southwestern Japanese coas...
Space is key to monitoring ocean acidification
Nov 30, 2019 (ESA)
As the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide continues to rise, our oceans are playing an increasingly important role in absorbing some of this excess. In fact, ...
Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network
Nov 30, 2019 (SPX)
In a paper appearing this week in the journal Science, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley ...
Contentious Uganda hydro project back on the table
Nov 29, 2019 (AFP)
The about-turn has infuriated tourism operators who fear the 360-megawatt project on the Victoria Nile in Murchison Falls National Park could irreversibly scar ...
Freak waves flood homes in Marshall Islands
Nov 29, 2019 (AFP)
Swells averaging five metres (16 feet) washed rocks and debris onto roads, temporarily cutting access to the international airport at the peak of the flooding o...
Animals could help humans monitor oceans
Nov 28, 2019 (SPX)
Thousands of marine animals are tagged for a variety of research and conservation purposes, but at present the information gathered isn't widely used to track c...
Turtles and tourists share the same beach on a Tunisian island
Nov 27, 2019 (AFP)
On this paradisaical island off the coast of Monastir -- a resort town south of the capital Tunis -- tourists co-exist with loggerhead turtles thanks to a novel...
Harvesting fog can provide fresh water in desert regions
Nov 27, 2019 (SPX)
Fan Kiat Chan, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, offers biomimetic fog-gathering technologies based on Namib desert beetles as a potential so...
Losing Nemo: clownfish 'cannot adapt to climate change'
Nov 26, 2019 (AFP)
They observed the vibrantly coloured clownfish -- which live in anemones -- for more than 10 years around Kimbe Island off eastern Papua New Guinea. A team from...
Bigeye tuna get 'modest' reprieve as fishing nations cut quotas
Nov 26, 2019 (AFP)
Scientists warn that unless the catch is reduced, stocks of Thunnus obesus -- especially prized for sashimi in Japan and canned worldwide -- could collapse with...
Rising ocean temps reshaping communities of fish, other marine species
Nov 25, 2019 (UPI)
For the new research, scientists analyzed millions of records on thousands of species living in 200 different ecological communities. The effort was the largest...
El Nino seeing extreme swings in the industrial age
Nov 25, 2019 (SPX)
It is the first known time that enough physical evidence spanning millennia has come together to allow researchers to say definitively that: El Ninos, La Ninas,...
New Earth mission will track rising oceans into 2030
Nov 21, 2019 (JPL)
By 2030, Sentinel-6/Jason-CS will add to nearly 40 years of sea level records, providing us with the clearest, most sensitive measure of how humans are changing...
Underwater robotic gliders provide key tool to measure ocean sound levels
Nov 21, 2019 (SPX)
"Healthy marine ecosystems need to have noise levels within particular ranges," said Joe Haxel, an assistant professor/senior research in the College of Earth, ...
Reporter blames 'cruel' Vanuatu ban on China coverage
Nov 18, 2019 (AFP)
Vanuatu Daily Post media director Dan McGarry was stopped from boarding a flight from Brisbane to Port Vila on Sunday, with airline staff telling him that the i...
Two ocean studies look at microscopic diversity and activity across entire planet
Nov 18, 2019 (SPX)
Two papers being published November 14 in the journal Cell are the latest to use samples and data collected during the Tara Oceans expedition to analyze diversi...
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