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'Urgent steps' needed to save Australia's biggest river system
Feb 18, 2019 (AFP)
The management of the Murray-Darling River system, which stretches thousands of kilometres across several states and supplies Australia's food bowl, has been un...
Preserved leaves reveal 7,000 years of rainfall and drought
Feb 18, 2019 (SPX)
The study - published in Scientific Reports - used preserved paper-bark tea tree leaves from North Stradbroke Island's Swallow Lagoon that have been collecting ...
Japan upgrades downpour forecasts before Tokyo 2020
Feb 18, 2019 (AFP)
Scientists have created a high-tech radar capable of producing a three-dimensional map of a rain cloud in 30 to 60 seconds. They say this is a significant impro...
Surfer seriously injured in Australia shark attack
Feb 17, 2019 (AFP)
The man was out catching waves shortly after dawn at Belongil Beach when police said he was "bitten on the leg by a shark". Images taken shortly after appeared ...
With climate change, sunny day flooding incur losses too
Feb 15, 2019 (AFP)
No one is hurt, no roofs are torn off, and the neighborhood isn't evacuated as it might be in a hurricane. But these less spectacular events also incur economic...
Carbonaceous chondrites provide clues about the delivery of water to Earth
Feb 15, 2019 (SPX)
Scientists from the study published in the journal Space Science Reviews note that these meteorites played "an important role in the primordial Earth's water en...
Boeing nets $43M to build Navy's Orca extra large unmanned vehicles
Feb 14, 2019 (UPI)
The contract covers fabrication, testing and support of the vehicles, known as XUUVs, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. The Orca is designed to be a modular des...
Scientists developed a method that allows removal of antibiotic residue from waste water
Feb 14, 2019 (SPX)
The head of the nanoporous materials research group, Lead Research Scientist Mihkel Koel, has, as a chemist, focused his research in particular on the implement...
Wave device could deliver clean energy to thousands of homes
Feb 13, 2019 (SPX)
The device costs less than conventional designs, has fewer moving parts, and is made of durable materials. It is designed to be incorporated into existing ocean...
Researchers provide new definition for major Indian monsoon season
Feb 11, 2019 (SPX)
Now, FSU Professor of Meteorology Vasu Misra has used detailed surface temperature analyses to identify the start and end dates of the NEM season. His work prov...
No hooks, lines or sinkers: Cambodians go traditional in fishing ceremony
Feb 10, 2019 (AFP)
The ceremony is held each year in eastern Tboung Khmum province after the crop harvest to commemorate the country's proud fishing history, said local chief Uch ...
Deep sea reveals linkage between earthquake and carbon cycle
Feb 08, 2019 (SPX)
This was facilitated within a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and in collaboration with researchers from Geological Survey of Japan of the Nat...
On Lake Victoria, a green stain spreads across Africa's blue heart
Feb 08, 2019 (AFP)
The thick green carpet of water hyacinth is again choking Kisumu bay, floating on the surface and blocking Kenya's main entry to the largest body of water in Af...
Sharp bends make rivers wander
Feb 07, 2019 (SPX)
The research was led by the UT Jackson School of Geosciences Bureau of Economic Geology and found that the rate of river migration is directly linked to how sha...
'Twilight Zone' could help preserve shallow water reefs
Feb 07, 2019 (SPX)
The University of Queensland and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies examined corals from the ocean's 'twilight zone' at depths below 30 metres....
Ramped up efforts needed to protect the world's inland waters
Feb 06, 2019 (SPX)
This is close to the global target of 17% set out in Aichi Target 11 of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 of the Convention on Biological Diversity ...
Study: Much of the surface ocean will shift in color by end of 21st century
Feb 05, 2019 (SPX)
Writing in Nature Communications, researchers report that they have developed a global model that simulates the growth and interaction of different species of p...
Study: Environmental regulations may have unintended consequences in energy production
Feb 05, 2019 (SPX)
That's the conclusion of a new study by a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University that appears in the journal PLOS ONE. "This study is the first to suggest tha...
MERMAIDs reveal secrets from below the ocean floor
Feb 05, 2019 (SPX)
"Imagine a radiologist forced to work with a CAT scanner that is missing two-thirds of its necessary sensors," said Frederik Simons, a professor of geosciences ...
Variations in seafloor create freak ocean waves
Feb 04, 2019 (SPX)
"These are huge waves that can cause massive destruction to ships or infrastructure, but they are not precisely understood," said Nick Moore, assistant professo...
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