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Scientists create largest collection of coral reef maps ever made
Apr 24, 2019 (SPX)
The maps, published in the journal Coral Reefs, are the result of a 10-year Global Reef Expedition by scientists for the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundat...
Soft tissue makes coral tougher in the face of climate change
Apr 24, 2019 (SPX)
These soft tissues, which are home to beneficial algae, represent a source of energy for corals. The study, led by Chris Wall, a graduate student at the Hawai'i...
Lessons learned from the drift analysis of MH370 debris
Apr 23, 2019 (SPX)
Shortly after the sighting of the first piece of debris, a flaperon on La Reunion in 2015, a team of scientists at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre of Ocean Research Kie...
Balancing the ocean carbon budget
Apr 23, 2019 (SPX)
That's according to UC Santa Barbara oceanographer Dave Siegel. "The whole number is about 10 petagrams of carbon per year," he said of the amount of carbon tra...
Female sand tiger sharks visit the same shipwrecks off North Carolina coast
Apr 22, 2019 (UPI)
A survey of photographs taken by citizen scientists revealed multiple visits by the same female sand tiger sharks at the same shipwrecks, or similar nearby ship...
Thousands protest China-backed mega-dam in Myanmar
Apr 22, 2019 (AFP)
The protest came just days ahead of a trip by civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to Beijing for a summit on China's Belt and Road Initiative. Myanmar's former mil...
Rapid urbanization increasing pressure on rural water supplies globally
Apr 17, 2019 (SPX)
The study, published in Environmental Research Letters, found North America and Asia are hotspots for rural-to-urban water reallocation, with the practice on th...
Unique oil-eating bacteria found in world's deepest ocean trench
Apr 17, 2019 (SPX)
Together with researchers from the China and Russia, they undertook the most comprehensive analysis of microbial populations in the trench. The Mariana Trench i...
The scientists are developing a technology for water purification by electric discharges
Apr 17, 2019 (SPX)
As regards scientifically proven methods, the plasma water treatment by electrical discharge method patented from 2013 is ousting the water chlorination method ...
Seeking innovative ideas: space for the oceans
Apr 16, 2019 (ESA)
With about ten million tonnes of plastic entering the ocean each year, wildlife and ecosystems are suffering, and the economic impact on coastal communities, to...
We now know how insects and bacteria control ice
Apr 16, 2019 (SPX)
Nature has come up with ways to control the formation of ice, though, and in a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society University of Uta...
Giant Antarctic sea spiders weather warming by getting holey
Apr 15, 2019 (SPX)
The animals they studied were sea spiders, marine relatives of land spiders that breathe through their legs. The study, published in the April 10 issue of Proce...
Water that never freezes
Apr 15, 2019 (SPX)
If you were to analyse the structure of ice crystals, you'd see that the water molecules are arranged in regular 3-dimensional lattice structures. In water, by ...
Seychelles chief calls from the deep for ocean protection
Apr 14, 2019 (AFP)
"This issue is bigger than all of us, and we cannot wait for the next generation to solve it. We are running out of excuses to not take action, and running out ...
NASA Sees El Nino Conditions Prevail in the Central Pacific Ocean
Apr 12, 2019 (SPX)
In a typical El Nino, warmer than average SSTs off the coast of Peru lead to enhanced convection (rising air that condenses and forms clouds and storms) and abo...
Historic water levels at Iraq reservoirs and dams: officials
Apr 11, 2019 (AFP)
Weeks of rain compounded by melting snowcaps in neighbouring Turkey and Iran have almost filled Iraq's four main reservoirs and swelled the Tigris and Euphrates...
Scientists prevent supercooled water from freezing
Apr 10, 2019 (UPI)
When water freezes, its molecules organize into a lattice pattern to form ice crystals. The molecules of liquid water remain disorganized, free-floating, allowi...
Carbon lurking in deep ocean threw ancient climate switch, say researchers
Apr 09, 2019 (SPX)
A new study of sediments from the Atlantic bottom directly links this slowdown with a massive buildup of carbon dragged from the air into the abyss. With the sy...
Iraq seeks to reassure over reservoirs and dam pressures
Apr 09, 2019 (AFP)
"We are in control of the dams and reservoir levels", said water ministry spokesman Aoun Diab. "We are not worried about their safety or stability," he told AFP...
Survival in arid eastern Chad depends on struggle for water
Apr 09, 2019 (AFP)
Ali Ahmat,12, flicks his whip to persuade a hard-driven horse to press on with his cart, laden with 200 litres (44 imperial gallons) of freshly-fetched water. T...
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