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World's largest seaweed bloom spotted from space
Jul 05, 2019 (UPI)
Though expanses of the brown algae have increasingly blanketed beaches in Florida and the Caribbean, scientists know relatively little about what fuels their gr...
Zambia, Zimbabwe set date for building hydro dam
Jul 02, 2019 (AFP)
The Batoka Gorge dam will be situated 50 kilometres (30 miles) downstream of the Victoria Falls with a designed capacity of 2,400 megawatts shared between the t...
Deep submersible dives shed light on rarely explored coral reefs
Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)
Researchers must rely on submersible watercraft or sophisticated diving equipment to be able to study ocean life at these depths, known as the mesophotic zone. ...
Is a great iron fertilization experiment already underway?
Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)
"People don't even realize it," said lead author Dr. Tim Conway, Assistant Professor at the USF College of Marine Science, "but we've already been doing an iron...
A month under the Med: French divers launch daring deep-sea expedition
Jul 01, 2019 (AFP)
Laurent Ballesta, the marine naturalist and underwater photographer leading the audacious four-man "Planet Mediterranean" expedition, told AFP it aimed to show ...
The far-future ocean: Warm yet oxygen-rich
Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)
Will the oceans become completely oxygen-depleted at some point in the future if global warming continues? Such anoxic phases have actually occurred several tim...
More Manila water shortages ahead as reservoir feeding city dries
Jul 01, 2019 (AFP)
The water dropped to critical levels last week at the Angat Dam reservoir in Bulacan, north of the capital. The dam provides 97 percent of the city's water and ...
Monsoon rains soak India's financial capital
Jul 01, 2019 (AFP)
Children were seen wading through waist-high waters as they made their way to school, while some motorists were forced to get out and push their vehicles throug...
New research shows how melting ice is affecting supplies of nutrients to the sea
Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)
The European Research Council-funded expedition on board the RSS Discovery took place during the summer of 2017. It was led by Dr Kate Hendry a geochemist from ...
The Water Future of Earth's 'Third Pole'
Jun 27, 2019 (SPX)
Snow and glaciers in these mountains contain the largest volume of freshwater outside of Earth's polar ice sheets, leading hydrologists to nickname this region ...
Coral species prefers microplastics to real food
Jun 27, 2019 (UPI)
As a number of studies have shown, microplastics are increasingly common in the ocean, and are showing up in a wide variety of ecosystems, including the deep se...
Scientists map huge undersea fresh-water aquifer off US Northeast
Jun 24, 2019 (SPX)
The aquifer stretches from the shore at least from Massachusetts to New Jersey, extending more or less continuously out about 50 miles to the edge of the contin...
Marshall Islanders 'sitting ducks' as sea level rises: president
Jun 21, 2019 (AFP)
In an interview with AFP in Geneva, Heine detailed a range of projects underway aimed at helping prepare and adapt her far-flung country, made up of 1,156 low-l...
Looking for freshwater in all the snowy places
Jun 21, 2019 (SPX)
Snow's water content, or snow water equivalent (SWE) is a "holy grail for many hydrologists," said Bart Forman, the project's principal investigator and a profe...
Protecting U.S. coastal communities from sea level rise will cost $400 billion
Jun 21, 2019 (UPI)
Authors of the new report estimate 50,000 miles of coastal barriers will need to be built across 22 states over the next two decades. The report, compiled with ...
Rock-eating shipworm found in Philippines is new species of bivalve
Jun 20, 2019 (UPI)
"We have found quite an extraordinary new species," Reuben Shipway, a researcher at Northeastern University, said in a video release. An international team of s...
Plankton species uses bioluminescence to scare off predators
Jun 17, 2019 (UPI)
Researchers determined the species Lingulodinium polyedra uses its glow-in-the-dark abilities to scare off copepod grazers, the species' primary predator. Accor...
Palau changes ocean sanctuary plan to allow Japan fishing
Jun 17, 2019 (AFP)
Fish stocks are overexploited around the world, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned this year, and Palau has long been regarded as a pioneer...
Earth's freshwater future: extremes of flood and drought
Jun 17, 2019 (SPX)
Trends are beginning to emerge, especially at the extremes in the frequency and magnitude of floods and droughts. These trends affect everything from local weat...
US prosecutor drops charges, starts over in criminal probe of tainted water
Jun 14, 2019 (AFP)
The newly elected top prosecutor in the midwestern state announced the abrupt turnabout on Thursday, saying it was a necessary step for a "comprehensive and com...
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