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Deadly Brazil dam collapse raises fears of environmental woes
Feb 01, 2019 (AFP)
Authorities fear the mineral-laced slurry released by the collapse could eventually pollute the Sao Francisco River, the second-longest in Brazil, which hosts v...
Passing aircraft wring extra snow and rain out of clouds
Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)
The rain- and snow-bursts are not caused by emissions from the aircraft but are the peculiar consequence of the aircrafts' wings passing though clouds of superc...
Waters west of Europe drive ocean overturning circulation, key for regulating climate
Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)
In a departure from the prevailing scientific view, the study shows that most of the overturning and variability is occurring not in the Labrador Sea off Canada...
Climate change could make corals go it alone
Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)
The findings, which could potentially give clues about where modern reef conservation efforts should be focused, are based on a survey of coral species that sur...
Australia river agency pilloried amid mass fish deaths
Jan 31, 2019 (AFP)
A Royal Commission report into the Murray-Darling Basin Authority -- which happened to coincide with a series of mass fish kills -- was scathing in its assessme...
Warming Seas May Increase Frequency of Extreme Storms
Jan 29, 2019 (JPL)
The study team, led by Hartmut Aumann of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, combed through 15 years of data acquired by NASA's Atmospheri...
Sea of white: 'Hundreds of thousands' of fish dead in Australia
Jan 29, 2019 (AFP)
Locals around the Darling River were confronted with a sea of white, as dead fish carpeted the waters near the southeastern Outback town of Menindee. Just weeks...
Australian researchers test shark-bite resistant wetsuit
Jan 29, 2019 (AFP)
Researchers at Flinders University in Adelaide have received government funding to test a new neoprene -- a synthetic rubber commonly used in wetsuits -- agains...
Brazil mining dam collapse hits indigenous water supply
Jan 28, 2019 (AFP)
"We noticed that the river is becoming dirty and later, we started to see dead fish," a leader of the Nao Xoha native community, Hayo Pataxo Ha-ha-hae, said by ...
How sponges undermine coral reefs from within
Jan 28, 2019 (SPX)
This finding, published in Scientific Reports on Thursday January 24th, helps to explain why sponges erode reefs faster as atmospheric CO2 levels rise. With the...
Brazil dam disaster leaves 34 dead, hundreds missing
Jan 26, 2019 (AFP)
The disaster struck Friday at the Vale mine near the city of Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais state, spewing millions of tons of muddy sludge across the facility ...
Envisioned 'octopus farms' would have far-reaching and detrimental environmental impact
Jan 25, 2019 (SPX)
"We are all living during the rapid domestication of aquatic species and research is almost entirely around the question of which aquatic animals we can farm, r...
Navy denies claims from Camp Lejeune's contaminated water
Jan 25, 2019 (UPI)
The decision, announced on Thursday by Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer, says that the U.S. military has no legal authority to pay claims alleging personal...
Liberia wrestles with poverty and ecology in bid to protect sharks
Jan 25, 2019 (AFP)
Fifteen years or so ago, local fishermen who ventured off the coast of Liberia could expect to come back with 200, maybe 300, of the fish in their boats, the 45...
Sightings suggest rare angel sharks are living off the coast of Wales
Jan 25, 2019 (UPI)
The waters surrounding Spain's Canary Islands are the only confirmed safe haven for the endangered species, Squatina squatina. But sightings on several fishing ...
Tiny killer threatens giant clam, aquatic emblem of the Med
Jan 25, 2019 (AFP)
But the giant mollusc, the world's second biggest, is under mortal threat from a parasite that has ravaged populations since it was identified along Spanish coa...
When coral species vanish, their absence can imperil surviving corals
Jan 24, 2019 (SPX)
In the shallows off Fiji's Pacific shores, two marine researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology for a new study assembled groups of corals that were ...
Famous freak wave recreated in laboratory mirrors Hokusai's 'Great Wave'
Jan 23, 2019 (SPX)
Freak waves are unexpectedly large in comparison to surrounding waves. They are difficult to predict, often appearing suddenly without warning, and are commonly...
For zombie microbes, deep-sea buffet is just out of reach
Jan 23, 2019 (SPX)
A new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is beginning to pick apart how they survive by examining their source of "food" - nearby molecu...
Dry inland waters are underrated players in climate change
Jan 23, 2019 (SPX)
This trend is not only a threat to drinking water reserves and major ecosystems - dried freshwaters also play an important role in the global carbon cycle, and ...
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