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Water harvester makes it easy to quench your thirst in the desert
Sep 02, 2019 (SPX)
In a paper appearing this week in ACS Central Science, a journal of the American Chemical Society, UC Berkeley's Omar Yaghi and his colleagues describe the late...
MIT's fleet of autonomous boats can now shapeshift
Sep 02, 2019 (SPX)
The autonomous boats - rectangular hulls equipped with sensors, thrusters, microcontrollers, GPS modules, cameras, and other hardware - are being developed as p...
Magnet fishing: The explosive hobby cleaning up French rivers
Aug 31, 2019 (AFP)
Sometimes, too, they fish other more unexpected objects out of the water, such as unexploded munitions. Magnet fishing has fast become a popular pastime, accord...
'Extreme corals' discovered in Great Barrier Reef's mangrove lagoons
Aug 29, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists found 34 coral species living in the "hot spots" of coral resilience. Inside the lagoons, the so-called "extreme corals" are exposed to high acidity,...
Sinking feeling: Philippine cities facing 'slow-motion disaster'
Aug 29, 2019 (AFP)
The main culprit is catastrophic subsidence caused by groundwater being pumped out from below, often via unregulated wells for homes, factories, and farms cater...
Melting glaciers, as well as ice sheets, raising Earth's seas
Aug 29, 2019 (AFP)
AFP has obtained an official draft summary of the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report on oceans and the cryosphere. It says that the ...
Uganda abandons bid for hydro project near Murchison Falls
Aug 28, 2019 (AFP)
Cabinet agreed the proposed 360-megawatt project on the Victoria Nile in Murchison Falls National Park would "affect the scenery, ecosystem and subsequently tou...
NASA Ocean Ecosystem Mission Moves Forward
Aug 28, 2019 (SPX)
The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission will study phytoplankton - microscopic plants and algae that live in the ocean - as well as the clo...
US city to replace lead pipes that sparked water crisis
Aug 26, 2019 (AFP)
Thousands of residents in the predominantly black and Hispanic city of Newark, New Jersey, have been drinking only bottled water this month after a environment ...
Study reveals profound patterns in globally important algae
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
"Understanding these large-scale patterns helps us understand ocean productivity in the entire Atlantic basin," said William Balch, a senior research scientist ...
Paper filter from local algae could save millions of lives in Bangladesh
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
The paper filter has demonstrated excellent virus and bacteria removal capacity both in the lab and in real-life tests. The scientists believe that with further...
A battery-free sensor for underwater exploration
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
MIT researchers have an answer: a battery-free underwater communication system that uses near-zero power to transmit sensor data. The system could be used to mo...
Circulation of water in deep Earth's interior
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
Water is transported into deep Earth by the hydrous minerals in the subducting cold plates. Hydrous minerals, such as serpentine, mica and clay minerals, contai...
French Guiana grapples with Asian craving for fish bladder
Aug 22, 2019 (AFP)
The acoupa weakfish, found along the sandy bottom of the ocean off the coast of the Caribbean territory, has long been an important catch and often features on ...
Taiwan warns Pacific islands of China's 'empty promises' on aid
Aug 22, 2019 (AFP)
Visiting Palau to shore up Taiwan's relations in the Pacific -- where six of its 17 diplomatic allies are located -- Wu said democratic nations were concerned a...
Florida Aquarium reproduces Atlantic coral in lab for first time
Aug 21, 2019 (UPI)
The facility's Center for Conservation in Apollo Beach induced the spawning of coral this week as part of Project Coral. The scientists believe the breakthrough...
Cape Cod's gray seals attract sharks, causing summer beach closures
Aug 20, 2019 (UPI)
All summer, beaches were temporarily closed, with multiple beaches shut over the past weekend because of sightings of great white sharks. The booming population...
Water pollution can reduce economic growth by a third: World Bank
Aug 20, 2019 (AFP)
The report relied on what the Bank said was the biggest-ever database assembled on global water quality using monitoring stations, satellite data and machine le...
Chinese envoy lashes 'ignorant' Pacific aid critics
Aug 20, 2019 (AFP)
Beijing's growing influence in the Pacific islands was a major theme at a tense regional summit in Tuvalu last week, where Australia tried to reassert leadershi...
'Save our oceans,' Oscar winner Bardem tells UN
Aug 19, 2019 (AFP)
The Spaniard, a keen environmental activist, called on countries to agree to a treaty that would protect at least 30 percent of seas by 2030. "We just can't aff...
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