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Scientists warn of climate 'time bomb' for world's groundwater
Jan 21, 2019 (AFP)
Found underground in cracks in soil, sand and rock, groundwater is the largest useable source of freshwater on the planet and more than two billion people rely ...
Climate change clouds Australia's Pacific charm offensive
Jan 18, 2019 (AFP)
As Morrison pushed Canberra's message of a new Pacific focus with increased security and enhanced trade opportunities, he was called out by Fiji Prime Minister ...
Jellyfish map could help conservationists protect marine ecosystems
Jan 16, 2019 (UPI)
The analysis technique could offer important insights to ecologists and conservationists -- a new tool for protecting the health of important fisheries. Accordi...
Upper-ocean warming is changing the global wave climate, making waves stronger
Jan 15, 2019 (SPX)
A wide range of long-term trends and projections carry the fingerprint of climate change, including rising sea levels, increasing global temperatures, and decli...
Australian PM embarks on landmark Pacific trip
Jan 15, 2019 (AFP)
Morrison will become the first Australian leader in decades to visit Vanuatu and the first ever to visit Fiji, where he is due to deliver a major speech on Frid...
UN warns of rising levels of toxic brine as desalination plants meet growing water needs
Jan 15, 2019 (SPX)
In a UN-backed paper, experts estimate the freshwater output capacity of desalination plants at 95 million cubic meters per day - equal to almost half the avera...
Desalination produces more toxic waste than clean water
Jan 14, 2019 (AFP)
For every litre of fresh water extracted from the sea or brackish waterways, a litre-and-a-half of salty slurry, called brine, is dumped directly back into the ...
Million dead fish cause environmental stink in Australia
Jan 14, 2019 (AFP)
The banks of the Murray-Darling Rivers are thick with rotten fish, with officials putting the number of dead at hundreds of thousands and saying the toll is lik...
Social and environmental costs of hydropower are underestimated
Jan 11, 2019 (SPX)
These countries have not accounted for the environmental impacts of large dams, which include deforestation and the loss of biodiversity, or the social conseque...
Oceans are warming even faster than previously thought
Jan 11, 2019 (SPX)
"If you want to see where global warming is happening, look in our oceans," said Zeke Hausfather, a graduate student in the Energy and Resources Group at the Un...
California sea lions killed to protect migrating fish
Jan 11, 2019 (AFP)
A spokesman for the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife told AFP the lethal removals of the California sea lions began in mid-December and would continue th...
Experts warn against mega-dams in lowland tropical forests
Jan 09, 2019 (SPX)
The recommendation - published in the Journal of Applied Ecology - emerged from a new study that focuses on the Balbina Hydroelectric Reservoir system in the Br...
Turkey's 12,000-year-old town about to be engulfed
Jan 08, 2019 (AFP)
"My grandchildren will not see where I grew up, where I lived. They will ask me, 'Grandpa, where do you come from? Where did you live?' What will I do? Show the...
A century and half of reconstructed ocean warming offers clues for the future
Jan 08, 2019 (SPX)
The multi-disciplinary team of scientists have published estimates in PNAS, that global warming of the oceans of 436 x 1021 Joules has occurred from 1871 to pre...
Marshalls treat grounded Chinese vessel as 'crime scene'
Jan 07, 2019 (AFP)
The 308-foot (94-metre) boat, which ran aground last week on a remote northern atoll, was not licensed to be in the country's waters. "What they were doing in M...
Device cleaning up Great Pacific Garbage Patch breaks
Jan 07, 2019 (UPI)
The 2,000-foot-long, U-shaped barrier was designed to corral the floating plastic debris that forms the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But after just a few days o...
Female penguins more likely to be stranded on the South American coast
Jan 07, 2019 (UPI)
Female penguins, scientists found, are more likely to wander farther north, increasing their likelihood of becoming stranded. Researchers published their findin...
The long memory of the Pacific Ocean
Jan 07, 2019 (SPX)
During that time, between the 9th and 12th centuries, the earth's climate was generally warmer before the cold of the Little Ice Age settled in around the 16th ...
Warm water is attracting bluefin tuna to Britain
Jan 07, 2019 (UPI)
While conservationists and recreational anglers were debating whether or not the endangered fish species should be caught, scientists in France were trying to f...
Thousands stung in Australian jellyfish 'invasion'
Jan 07, 2019 (AFP)
The massive influx of Portuguese man o' war jellyfish, whose stings are notoriously painful, has been described as an "invasion" by local media in the state of ...
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