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Trump administration rolls back clean water protections
Dec 11, 2018 (AFP)
The proposed changes to the Clean Water Act would "remove and replace" rules set by the administration of Barack Obama in 2015, which was widely praised by envi...
A glimmer of hope for the world's coral reefs
Dec 11, 2018 (SPX)
"Dead corals don't bleach for a second time. The north lost millions of heat-sensitive corals in 2016, and most of the survivors were the tougher species. As a ...
Growing seal population isn't a threat to Baltic fish stocks, study finds
Dec 10, 2018 (UPI)
Fish stocks in the North Atlantic, including Baltic cod, herring and sprat, have been on the decline for several decades. At the same time, environmental protec...
Another El Nino on the horizon?
Dec 10, 2018 (ESA)
El Nino and its cooler cousin, La Nina, are complex naturally occurring climatic phenomena - and nobody really knows if our changing climate will affect them. E...
Flint, Michigan lead crisis should have buried the city in water bottles. So, why didn't it?
Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)
As part of a class assignment that grew into a case study, Purdue University researchers found that during the first three weeks of the disaster alone, anywhere...
Thriving reef fisheries continue to provide food despite coral bleaching
Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)
The unexpected results of a 20-year study into reef fisheries published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution this week showed fisheries being maintained ...
Tracing iron in the North Pacific
Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)
Also, the growth of phytoplankton is limited by the availability of Fe. Climate change, human activities and ocean acidification are expected to influence the a...
US groundwater in peril: Potable supply less than thought
Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)
The study provides important insights into the depths of underground fresh and brackish water in some of the most prominent sedimentary basins across the U.S. T...
Scientists reveal substantial water loss in global landlocked regions
Dec 03, 2018 (SPX)
The study, "Recent Global Decline in Endorheic Basin Water Storage," was carried out by a team of scientists from six countries and appears in the current issue...
Current efforts to save coral reefs are insufficient, report finds
Nov 30, 2018 (UPI)
Roughly 50 percent of the planet's coral reefs have been lost over the last several decades, and rates of reef decline are accelerating. Authors of the new repo...
UK will have 'completely safe' water after Brexit
Nov 28, 2018 (AFP)
The unusual message from Michael Gove came in response to a media report of cabinet ministers being briefed about various doomsday scenarios. One of them report...
Biggest coral reseeding project launches on Great Barrier Reef
Nov 28, 2018 (AFP)
The researchers said Wednesday they plan to grow coral larvae from the harvested eggs and return these to areas of the reef which have been badly damaged by cli...
Over one third of Indonesia's coral reefs in bad state: study
Nov 28, 2018 (AFP)
The precarious state of the country's coral reefs was revealed after a survey of 1067 sites across the sprawling country of more than 17,000 islands. Scientists...
Drinking water sucked from the dusty desert air
Nov 27, 2018 (SPX)
Globally, Earth's air contains almost 13 trillion tons of water, a vast renewable reservoir of clean drinking water. Trials of many materials and devices develo...
How the Atlantic Ocean became part of the global circulation at a climatic tipping point
Nov 27, 2018 (SPX)
Neodymium (Nd) isotopes are used as a tracer of water masses and their mixing. Surface waters acquire a Nd-isotope signature from surrounding land masses throug...
Receding Malawi lake lays bare cost of climate change
Nov 27, 2018 (AFP)
Today hundreds of fishing boats sit marooned on cracked, dry mud as vultures fly above the shores of the once productive fishing zone 30 kilometres (19 miles) e...
75-80 percent chance of El Nino in next 3 months: UN
Nov 27, 2018 (AFP)
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) noted that the impending El Nino is not expected to be as powerful as the 2015-2016 event that was linked to drought...
Ocean circulation in North Atlantic at its weakest
Nov 27, 2018 (SPX)
This is important for near-future climate as slower circulation in the North Atlantic can yield profound change on both the North American and European climate ...
Escaping death and rebirth on Varanasi's sacred riverbanks
Nov 23, 2018 (AFP)
Each pyre needs between 200 and 400 kilogrammes (440 and 880 pounds) of wood, meaning the sacred city in northern India burns through as much as 80 tonnes every...
Researchers measure carbon footprint of Canada hydroelectric dams
Nov 22, 2018 (AFP)
Michelle Garneau, a university researcher and a member of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is collecting the first data on areas flood...
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