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Radical desalination approach may disrupt the water industry
May 08, 2019 (SPX)
If hypersaline brines are improperly managed, they can pollute both surface and groundwater resources. But if there were a simple, inexpensive way to desalinate...
Data with Flippers? Studying the Ocean from a Seal's POV
May 07, 2019 (JPL)
Siegelman is using data from a single tagged southern elephant seal to study small-scale ocean features in a little-known part of the ocean around Antarctica. S...
Tapping fresh water under the ocean has consequences
May 07, 2019 (SPX)
These offshore groundwater resources could be exploited for uses such as drinking, agriculture and oil recovery, but new research from the University of Delawar...
Study demonstrates seagrass' strong potential for curbing erosion
May 06, 2019 (SPX)
New research for the first time quantifies, through experiments and mathematical modelling, just how large and how dense a continuous meadow of seagrass must be...
Overfishing risks ocean deserts as stocks plummet
May 03, 2019 (AFP)
In 2017, global catches topped 92 billion tonnes, more than four times the amount fished in 1950, according to the United Nations. The UN's Food and Agriculture...
Half the Earth's oceans may have come from asteroids
May 02, 2019 (UPI)
Arizona State University recently found water in fragments of an asteroid known as Itokawa. This discovery suggests impacts from other asteroids during the earl...
Ultrasound technology reveals the fetus of a pregnant wild reef manta ray
May 01, 2019 (UPI)
The waters surrounding the islands of the Republic of Maldives host the world's largest population of reef manta rays, but the ray population varies greatly. "M...
Despite full reservoirs, Iraq water woes far from over
May 01, 2019 (AFP)
Far from last year's shortages, "the land between the two rivers" is expected to hold 42 billion cubic metres (1.48 trillion cubic feet) in its reservoirs at th...
Sierra Leone tackles overfishing but gets small fry
May 01, 2019 (AFP)
Dozens of large foreign trawlers are licensed to fish in Sierra Leonean waters and the aim of the ban, which expired Tuesday, was to help replenish species dama...
Aussie scientists find antidote for deadly box jellyfish sting
May 01, 2019 (AFP)
Researchers at the University of Sydney had been investigating how the venom is so deadly that one box jellyfish can kill 60 people. The team noticed the venom ...
Researchers detail marine viruses from pole
Apr 30, 2019 (SPX)
"This new understanding of viruses from the northern pole to the southern pole and from the surface to 4,000 meters deep may help scientists better understand h...
How to purify water with graphene
Apr 30, 2019 (SPX)
"Capturing" bacterial cells, it forms flakes that can be easily extracted from the water. Graphene separated by ultrasound can be reused. The article on the res...
Egypt's rebounding tourism threatens Red Sea corals
Apr 30, 2019 (AFP)
The Red Sea is a top scuba diving destination, but Egypt's tourism sector was buffeted by a wave of security shocks through much of this decade, before a partia...
Rapid melting of the world's largest ice shelf linked to solar heat in the ocean
Apr 30, 2019 (SPX)
In a study of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, which covers an area roughly the size of France, the scientists spent several years building up a record of how the n...
Study: Deep-ocean creatures living a 'feast-or-famine' existence because of energy fluxes
Apr 29, 2019 (SPX)
A new study published this week in Nature Communications documents how little energy survives. Most of it is lost in the upper water column to bacteria, which s...
US Southeast Atlantic coast facing high threat of sea-level rise in the next 10 years
Apr 29, 2019 (SPX)
The new data reflect a 30 percent increase in highly vulnearable areas in the region since 2000, the date of previous projections from the U.S. Geological Surve...
French aquarium sued over hammerhead shark deaths
Apr 29, 2019 (AFP)
The move came after the Nausicaa aquarium in the northern French port city of Boulogne-sur-Mer said on Thursday that its last hammerhead, acquired in Australian...
New view of how ocean 'pumps' impact climate change
Apr 29, 2019 (SPX)
A large portion of the carbon dioxide emitted when humans burn fossil fuels, for instance, is taken up and stored in the ocean via a set of processes that make ...
Hydroid to support production of unmanned underwater vehicles
Apr 25, 2019 (UPI)
With four option years, the cumulative contract could be worth up to $47.9 million, the Defense Department announced Wednesday. Work will be performed at Hydroi...
Simple sea anemones not so simple after all
Apr 24, 2019 (SPX)
It'd be easy to use the word "simple" when considering this relative of coral and jellyfish. But wait - not so fast. New research on tube anemones is challengin...
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