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Tortoise poachers get stiff sentence in Madagascar
May 22, 2019 (AFP)
An appeals court in Tulear, southwest Madagascar, also fined the defendants 100 million ariary (23,800 euros, $26,500) and ordered them to pay 100 million ariar...
Baby tiger sharks eat common backyard birds
May 22, 2019 (UPI)
Tiger sharks are known as the garbage bins of the ocean. When it comes to eating, they're rather indiscriminate. Researchers have previously found evidence that...
Migration to the north: climate change puts plankton on the move
May 22, 2019 (AFP)
That is the conclusion of new research published Thursday in the journal Nature examining the make-up of plankton communities across the northern hemisphere. Th...
2-metre sea level rise 'plausible' by 2100: study
May 21, 2019 (AFP)
The vast ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica contain enough frozen water to lift the world's oceans dozens of metres. The expansion of water as oceans warm a...
Century-scale deep-water circulation dynamics in the North Atlantic Ocean
May 20, 2019 (SPX)
Since the proposal of "conveyor belt" paradigm by Wallace S Broecker, in 1980s, the deep ocean circulation, now known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Cir...
Seasonal Monsoon Rains Block Key Ocean Current
May 20, 2019 (JPL)
It's not a theoretical question. Scientists have observed that a major ocean current called the Indonesia Throughflow, which provides the only tropical connecti...
Water cycle wrapped
May 20, 2019 (ESA)
Cycling through the oceans, land, ice and the atmosphere, the principles of the way water moves around our planet have remained the same for billions of years. ...
Indian island residents vote with sinking hearts
May 19, 2019 (AFP)
About 4,000 people, including poor fisherman Goranga Dolui, were on the electoral list for the island in the Sunderban delta. "Those who could, have left alread...
UN chief's call to 'save the Pacific to save the world'
May 18, 2019 (AFP)
Guterres has spent the past week in the region pushing for urgent action ahead of a UN summit in September billed as a last chance to prevent irreversible clima...
Mapping salty waters
May 15, 2019 (ESA)
Sea-surface salinity plays an important role in thermohaline ocean circulation. The research team, led by Jacqueline Boutin of LOCEAN and Nicolas Reul of Ifreme...
UN chief hails Pacific's 'moral authority' on climate
May 15, 2019 (AFP)
Visiting Fiji as part of a South Pacific tour to highlight the dangers of global warming, Guterres said the region was on the front line of climate change. "Her...
What we've learned from water in motion
May 14, 2019 (JPL)
GRACE data, collected from 2002 to 2017 while the mission was active, are still being used to improve our understanding of water in motion and its sometimes sur...
'Super corals' give glimmer of hope for world's dying reefs
May 14, 2019 (AFP)
The research suggests that the gloomiest climate change picture of a world without the kaleidoscope underwater habitats could still be avoided, according to lea...
Better understanding of coral-algae relationship could help prevent bleaching
May 13, 2019 (UPI)
During coral bleaching events, environmental stress triggers a breakup of the symbiotic relationship between coral and algae. In a new study published in the jo...
Study explores the use of robots and artificial intelligence to understand the deep-sea
May 13, 2019 (SPX)
With increasing threats facing the marine environment, scientists desperately need more information about what inhabits the seabed in order to inform conservati...
Tunisia seizes illegal red coral worth two million euros
May 10, 2019 (AFP)
Interior ministry spokesman Sofiene Zaag said it was the first haul of that size in the North African country. The harvesting of Mediterranean red coral -- high...
Remarkable fish see color in deep, dark water
May 10, 2019 (SPX)
An international research team involving University of Queensland scientists believes the deep-sea discovery which suggests fish may see colour in the dark, shi...
Cannibalism helps comb jellies survive harsh conditions, invade new environs
May 08, 2019 (UPI)
New research -- published this week in the journal Communications Biology -- suggests cannibalism is key to the species' ability to move into new environs. "We ...
Impossible research produces 400-year El Nino record, revealing startling changes
May 08, 2019 (SPX)
The record published in Nature Geoscience detects different types of El Nino and shows the nature of El Nino events has changed in recent decades. This understa...
Two-thirds of world's longest rivers throttled by mankind: study
May 08, 2019 (AFP)
Using the latest satellite data and computer modelling software, the international team looked at the connectivity of 12 million kilometres of rivers worldwide,...
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