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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...
South Africa imposes water restrictions as 'Day zero' looms
Oct 28, 2019 (AFP)
Intermittent water shortages have left neighbourhoods in the central and northern regions of South Africa without water over the past week as the country reels ...
Solomons vetoes Chinese 'lease' on Pacific island
Oct 25, 2019 (AFP)
The deal between the Solomons' Central Province and the state-owned China Sam Group was "unlawful, unenforceable and must be terminated with immediate effect", ...
Mountain streams emit surprisingly large amounts of CO2
Oct 25, 2019 (UPI)
In studying the relationship between flowing freshwater and carbon cycles, scientists have mostly focused on streams and rivers in low-altitude regions. But mou...
Amazon river dolphins threatened by mercury pollution
Oct 24, 2019 (AFP)
Researchers measured contamination levels in 46 of these large freshwater creatures known for long, bottle-like snouts in major basins of Brazil, Bolivia, Colom...
Egypt, Ethiopia leaders discuss controversial Nile dam
Oct 24, 2019 (AFP)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi "delivered a message" to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Addis Ababa's soon-to-be-finished mega-project on the Bl...
Egypt agrees to Nile dam meeting with Ethiopia, Sudan
Oct 23, 2019 (AFP)
Fresh tensions have flared between Cairo and Addis Ababa after the latest rounds of talks this month on Ethiopia's soon-to-finished dam on the Blue Nile failed ...
The pirarucu: the giant prized fish of the Amazon
Oct 22, 2019 (AFP)
The enormous animal, once threatened with extinction, is now on dinner plates in Rio de Janeiro's fanciest restaurants, thanks to a number of chefs who have cha...
'Clear risks' for stability in China's Pacific lending
Oct 21, 2019 (AFP)
In a study released Monday, the influential Lowy Institute warned that fragile Pacific nations risked borrowing too much and leaving themselves exposed to deman...
15 die in dam collapse at Siberian gold mine
Oct 19, 2019 (AFP)
The dam on the Seiba River in the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk burst and flooded several cabins where workers lived, authorities said. Icy and muddy floodwate...
Two decades of rain, snowfall from NASA's precipitation missions
Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)
PMM includes two missions - the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), which orbited Earth from 1997 to 2015, and its successor, the joint NASA-JAXA Global...
Managing stormwater and stream restoration projects together
Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)
Rod Lammers and his colleagues at the University of Georgia looked at some computerized models to see if coordinating these land management practices with commo...
China signs deal to 'lease' Pacific island in Solomons
Oct 17, 2019 (AFP)
The leaked papers reveal that the Solomons' Central Province made a "strategic cooperation agreement" on Tulagi island, which has the type of deep-water harbour...
Sustainability of fossil aquifers in Arabian Peninsula
Oct 16, 2019 (SPX)
The University of Delaware's Neil Sturchio, professor in the Department of Earth Sciences in UD's College of Earth, Ocean and Environment, with colleagues from ...
Scientists study scales that protect small Amazonian fish from piranhas
Oct 16, 2019 (UPI)
Arapaima gigas is one of largest freshwater species in the world, but even the massive air-breather, which must regularly surface for oxygen, is not immune to t...
Achieving a safe and just future for the ocean economy
Oct 16, 2019 (SPX)
In a climate of environmental change and financial uncertainty, much attention has been given to the growth of the "Blue Economy" - a term which refers to the s...
Lakes worldwide are experiencing more severe algal blooms
Oct 15, 2019 (SPX)
Reports of harmful algal blooms - like the ones that shut down Toledo's water supply in 2014 or led to states of emergency being declared in Florida in 2016 and...
New Mersey designs show tidal barriers bring more benefits than producing clean energy
Oct 14, 2019 (SPX)
When designed holistically, tidal barrage schemes can provide additional transport links for commuters, become tourism destinations, mitigate wildlife habitat l...
Detailed reef survey reveals major changes in Australia's Great Barrier Reef
Oct 14, 2019 (SPX)
A new study - the longest coral reef survey to date - provides an in-depth look at Australia's Great Barrier Reef over the past 91 years. Published in the journ...
Cargo ship runs aground in Corsican nature reserve
Oct 13, 2019 (AFP)
The Rhodanus, transporting 2,650 tonnes of steel coils and seven crew, ran into trouble in the Mouths of Bonifacio nature reserve in the early morning hours aft...
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