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Record $3.1 million paid in New Year's tuna auction at Japan's new market
Jan 05, 2019 (AFP)
Bidding stopped at a whopping 333.6 million yen for the enormous 278-kilogramme (612-pound) fish -- an endangered species -- that was caught off Japan's norther...
Cold reminders of Earth's last great cold snap revealed in the deep Pacific
Jan 04, 2019 (SPX)
According to the results, ongoing cooling observed in Pacific deep-ocean temperatures indicates that the deep Pacific is still adjusting to the surface cooling ...
Seagrass saves beaches and money
Jan 03, 2019 (SPX)
"A foreshore with both healthy seagrass beds as well as calcifying algae, is a resilient and sustainable option in coastal defense", says lead author Rebecca Ja...
Iran sees 'revival' of imperilled Lake Urmia
Dec 30, 2018 (AFP)
A rusty cargo ship and a row of colourful pedal boats lying untouched on the bone-dry basin are a sign of the devastating loss of water in what was once the lar...
Droughts boost emissions as hydropower dries up
Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)
"Water is used in electricity generation, both directly for hydropower and indirectly for cooling in thermoelectric power plants," said climate scientist Noah D...
Collecting clean water from air, inspired by desert life
Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)
A pair of new studies from researchers at The Ohio State University offers a possible solution, inspired by nature. "We thought: 'How can we gather water from t...
Health checkups for alpine lakes
Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)
"Our work shows that alpine zooplankton communities are particularly sensitive to climate and therefore a valuable bioindicator of the impacts of climate change...
Protected Chilean sea lions are the 'enemy' of fishermen
Dec 22, 2018 (AFP)
For Chile's fishermen, sea lions are a "plague." "They're an enemy!" complained Mario Rojas to AFP. "We try to make them go away but it's impossible!" Part of t...
Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth's interior
Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)
The observations from the trench have important implications for the global water cycle, according to researchers at Washington University in St. Louis whose wo...
Climate change leading to water shortage in Andes, Himalayas
Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)
Their findings - that glaciers in both parts of the world are melting more rapidly than at any point in the last 10,000 years - mean the water supply in parts o...
New management strategies may help Los Angeles avoid future water crises
Dec 19, 2018 (UPI)
However, scientists have come up with a new to avoid future water crises. The plan recommends new water management strategies and infrastructure improvements fo...
Warning over deep-sea 'gold rush'
Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)
With major decisions on the future of seabed mining expected in 2019-20, scientists and policy experts from the University of Exeter and Greenpeace have recomme...
Cambodia hails opening of country's largest dam despite opposition
Dec 17, 2018 (AFP)
Backed by Chinese funding, the impoverished Southeast Asian nation has embarked on a dam-building spree in recent years, as it tries to boost its energy capacit...
A damming trend
Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)
The results, published in the current issue of Scientific Reports, are the first to tackle the potential environmental changes that the overall basin could expe...
The long dry: why the world's water supply is shrinking
Dec 14, 2018 (SPX)
The study - the most exhaustive global analysis of rainfall and rivers - was conducted by a team led by Professor Ashish Sharma at Australia's University of New...
Research unlocks secrets of iron storage in algae
Dec 14, 2018 (SPX)
"The ability of phytoplankton to store iron drives important chemical cycles and shapes the ecology of the entire ocean," said author Ben Twining, a senior rese...
Chinese fishing deal makes waves ahead of Madagascar polls
Dec 13, 2018 (AFP)
Nearby a young man with a diving mask bobs below the water's surface armed with a stick to lure his catch into a net while also trying to snare fish on a nylon ...
Ocean fertilization by unusual microbes extends to frigid waters of Arctic Ocean
Dec 12, 2018 (SPX)
"This goes against all the textbook assumptions about where nitrogen fixation occurs. All the mathematical models for nitrogen input to the oceans are constrain...
Deep reef survey reveals 195 coral species
Dec 12, 2018 (UPI)
According to the new research, published this week in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, roughly half of the coral species living in the Great Barr...
Tanzania picks Egyptian firms for controversial dam scheme
Dec 12, 2018 (AFP)
The 2,100-megawatt scheme will straddle the Rufiji River in the Selous Game Reserve, a 50,000-square-kilometre (19,000-square-mile) protected area which was des...
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