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In Quebec, Canada's newest hydroelectric dams nearly ready
Nov 21, 2018 (AFP)
Flowing more than 500 kilometers (300 miles) through the wilderness, the Romaine River in the Cote-Nord region of Quebec is about to hit a literal wall at 51 de...
A new pathway for heat transport in the ocean
Nov 21, 2018 (SPX)
One of the upper branches of this conveyor belt, known as the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF), is an ocean current that flows through various channels between Born...
Fishing nations fail in bid to cut quotas for depleted bigeye tuna
Nov 19, 2018 (AFP)
Some 50 countries as well as European Union member states wrapped up a meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) in...
Half of the world's annual precipitation falls in just 12 days, new study finds
Nov 19, 2018 (SPX)
By century's end, climate models project that this lopsided distribution of rain and snow is likely to become even more skewed, with half of annual precipitatio...
Real-time feedback makes hotel guests slash shower power
Nov 19, 2018 (AFP)
The team behind the study, based on the installation of smart meters in showers at six hotels in Switzerland, said it showed that financial incentives alone don...
Pence slams China's 'opaque' chequebook diplomacy, trade practices
Nov 17, 2018 (AFP)
US-China trade tensions are likely to take centre stage at the APEC regional summit, with experts warning the spat could be catastrophic for the global economy,...
Drought-hit Cape Town should cut down 'alien' trees: study
Nov 16, 2018 (AFP)
The tourist hotspot was weeks away from turning off all household and business taps before strict rationing and much-needed rain enabled it to escape so-called ...
Xi woos Pacific islands to curb Taiwan's influence
Nov 16, 2018 (AFP)
While countries have vied for resource contracts and influence along vital Pacific shipping routes, the region has also become a frontline in the diplomatic war...
Competition for shrinking groundwater
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
But according to research by Scott Jasechko and Debra Perrone, assistant professors at UC Santa Barbara, and their colleagues at the University of Saskatchewan ...
Middle Eastern desert dust on the Tibetan plateau could affect the Indian summer monsoon
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
New research led by William Lau, a research scientist at the University of Maryland's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), provides a plausibl...
The unintended consequences of dams and reservoirs
Nov 15, 2018 (SPX)
Building dams and reservoirs is one of the most common approaches to cope with drought and water shortage. The aim is straightforward: reservoirs can store wate...
Rising sea levels may build, rather than destroy, coral reef islands
Nov 15, 2018 (SPX)
Low-lying coral reef islands are typically less than three metres above sea level, making them highly vulnerable to rising sea levels associated with climate ch...
Overlooked trends in annual precipitation reveal underestimated risks worldwide
Nov 15, 2018 (SPX)
Conventional trend analysis approaches examine changes in mean annual precipitation over time, and erroneously assume that changes in high and low precipitation...
Coup-plagued Fiji goes to the polls
Nov 14, 2018 (AFP)
The ballot saw Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, the former military chief who led a bloodless takeover of the government 12 years ago, face off against another...
Unintended consequences of dams, reservoirs worsen water shortages, study finds
Nov 14, 2018 (UPI)
In a new paper published in the journal Nature Sustainability, scientists describe two phenomena, or effects, can undermine the benefits of dam and reservoir co...
Shrinking Sea of Galilee has some hoping for a miracle
Nov 13, 2018 (AFP)
Today, they put up their parasols 100 metres (yards) further down, on a sandy beach that has appeared due to the shrinking of the iconic body of water. "Every t...
Marshall Islands leader survives no-confidence motion
Nov 12, 2018 (AFP)
The vote to topple Heine, the first and only elected female leader of a Pacific island nation, split parliament 16-16, one short of the 17 her opponents require...
States to decide fate of depleted bigeye tuna
Nov 10, 2018 (AFP)
Scientists shocked many in the industry last month when they warned that unless catch levels are sharply reduced, stocks of the fatty, fast-swimming predator co...
The secret behind coral reef diversity? Time, lots of time
Nov 09, 2018 (SPX)
Fish of all shapes and colors dart in and out of crevices created by the dazzling shapes of corals, colorful sponges and other reef-building organisms. With a l...
One million years of precipitation history of the monsoon reconstructed
Nov 09, 2018 (SPX)
But how exactly does this important climate system work? And how will it change in response to future global warming? "Even the best coupled ocean-atmosphere mo...
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