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Future rainfall could far outweigh current climate predictions
Nov 18, 2019 (SPX)
Scientists analysed rainfall records from the 1870s to the present day and compared them against those featured in the Met Office's UK Climate Projections 2018 ...
What vision do we have for the deep sea?
Nov 18, 2019 (SPX)
States are currently seeking to develop a legal framework for deep seabed mining. In cooperation with the Heinrich Boll Foundation, an international team of res...
Great Barrier Reef annual mass coral spawning begins
Nov 17, 2019 (AFP)
Buffeted by climate change-induced rising sea temperatures and coral bleaching, the world's largest reef system goes into a frenzy once a year with a mass relea...
US-China tussle, barred voters swirl around Marshalls vote
Nov 16, 2019 (AFP)
The vote comes amidst escalating tensions between the US and China that has seen Kiribati and the Solomon Islands recently switch diplomatic allegiance to China...
Climate impact of hydropower varies widely
Nov 15, 2019 (SPX)
Currently, hydropower contributes two-thirds of the electricity generated from renewable sources worldwide, according to the International Energy Association, w...
Sediment is a greater threat to small freshwater species than fertilizer runoff
Nov 13, 2019 (UPI)
Elevated nitrogen and phosphorous levels in freshwater and marine ecoystems are responsible for a variety of problems -- most notably, oxygen-depleting, toxin-p...
Scientists find eternal Nile to be more ancient than previously thought
Nov 12, 2019 (SPX)
The Nile's unchanging path, however, has been a geologic mystery because long-lived rivers usually move over time. Researchers at The University of Texas at Aus...
Strange disease threatens Caribbean coral reef
Nov 12, 2019 (AFP)
In a little over a year, the Mexican Caribbean has lost more than 30 percent of its corals to a little-understood illness called SCTLD, or stony coral tissue lo...
New study first to reveal growth rates of deep-sea coral communities
Nov 12, 2019 (SPX)
The scientific team used the UH Manoa Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory's submersible and remotely-operated vehicles to examine coral communities on submarin...
Fishy tacks: poaching threatens Balkans' biggest lake
Nov 07, 2019 (AFP)
"Big ones are becoming rarer and rarer," sighs the 47-year-old as his small dinghy powered by an old engine glides across Shkodra. Overfishing and poaching are ...
'Ghost' fishing gear: the trash haunting ocean wildlife
Nov 06, 2019 (AFP)
He pulled it up to the deck of the Arctic Sunrise, a Greenpeace vessel conducting research around Mount Vema, an underwater mountain located around 1,600 kilome...
Study: Sea level rise likely to be determined by speed of carbon emission reductions
Nov 06, 2019 (UPI)
According to a new study, even if countries meet all of their emissions reduction targets set by the 2015 Paris Agreement by 2030, those 15 years of CO2 emissio...
Scientists probe the limits of ice
Nov 06, 2019 (SPX)
"When you have a glass of water with ice, you do not see the water in the glass turn all ice and all liquid as a function of time," she says. In the smallest wa...
Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan set January goal on controversial Nile dam
Nov 06, 2019 (AFP)
US President Donald Trump agreed to mediate among the three nations in Washington at the request of Egypt, which fears that the Ethiopian-built dam would disrup...
The world is getting wetter, yet water may become less available for North America and Eurasia
Nov 05, 2019 (SPX)
The research suggests a drier future despite anticipated precipitation increases for places like the United States and Europe, populous regions already facing w...
Infectious cancer affecting mussels spread across the Atlantic
Nov 05, 2019 (UPI)
The reports of the disease's spread, detailed today in the journal eLife, suggest humans are playing a role in the cancer's proliferation across the globe. Scie...
Why are big storms bringing so much more rain
Oct 31, 2019 (SPX)
A new analysis by Princeton researchers explains why this trend is likely to continue with global warming. Both the higher moisture content of warmer air and st...
Mekong levels at lowest on record as drought and dams strangle river
Oct 31, 2019 (AFP)
The $4.47 billion Thai-owned Xayaburi hydro-electric power plant went into operation this week in Laos after years of warnings over the potential impact on fish...
Climate-fuelled flooding to imperil 300 million by 2050
Oct 30, 2019 (AFP)
In the second half of the 21st century and beyond, however, choices made today will determine whether the global coastlines on maps today will remain recognisab...
Egypt, Ethiopia to meet in Washington over Nile dam
Oct 29, 2019 (AFP)
Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia "will meet in the United States on 6 November... to break the deadlock in the ongoing negotiations regarding the Renaissance Dam," Sam...
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