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Caribbean to test greenhouse-gas linked ocean acidity
Oct 18, 2018 (AFP)
The International Atomic Energy Agency "will assist" with the project, said Milton Haughton, Executive Director of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism. "...
Long range ENSO forecasting extended one year
Oct 17, 2018 (SPX)
The El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an irregular, periodic variation in trade winds and sea and air temperatures in the equatorial region of the Pacific ...
Satellite monitoring could help curb illegal fishing in shark sanctuaries
Oct 17, 2018 (UPI)
When Darcy Bradley and her colleagues at UCSB set out for the Marshall Islands, they intended to monitor the movements of grey reef sharks inside a supposed sha...
Rising seas threaten dozens of UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Oct 17, 2018 (UPI)
For sites such as the Old City of Dubrovnik and the ruins of Carthage, the threat of harmful storm surges and coastal erosion will increase significantly as the...
DR Congo signs $14 bn dam development deal with China, Spain
Oct 16, 2018 (AFP)
The Inga 3 project is part of a major programme to expand hydroelectric dams along the Congo River. It has been on the drawing board for around 30 years but has...
Turbidity currents are not just currents, but involve movement of the seafloor itself
Oct 15, 2018 (SPX)
This dramatic discovery, the result of an 18-month-long, multi-institutional study of Monterey Canyon, could help ocean engineers avoid damage to pipelines, com...
Easter Island inhabitants collected freshwater from the ocean's edge in order to survive
Oct 15, 2018 (SPX)
The team, which included Binghamton University Professor of Anthropology Carl Lipo, measured the salinity of coastal water around the island of Rapa Nui, in ord...
Larger cities have smaller water footprint than less populated counterparts
Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)
"Human life on the planet has never been more complex," said Caitlin Grady, assistant professor of civil engineering. "We're so intertwined with so many aspects...
New spheres trick, trap and terminate water contaminant
Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)
Micron-sized spheres created in the lab of Rice environmental engineer Pedro Alvarez are built to catch and destroy bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic chemical used...
Fertilizer can accumulate over time, causing water quality problems decades later
Oct 08, 2018 (UPI)
In a new study, scientists quantified the maximum amount of nutrients land can hold before fertilizers overflow into downriver ecosystems. Their analysis sugges...
Atlantic salmon use magnetic fields to navigate, even when landlocked
Oct 08, 2018 (UPI)
Previous studies have documented Pacific salmon's ability to sense magnetic fields. To test whether Atlantic salmon also use Earth's magnetic field to navigate,...
Genome of sea lettuce that spawns massive 'green tides' decoded
Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)
An international team including Rutgers scientists found 13 cases where the sea lettuce Ulva mutabilis stole genes from bacteria. Remarkably, this ubiquitous se...
130-year-old brain coral reveals encouraging news for open ocean
Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)
A 130-year-old brain coral has provided the answer, at least for the North Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast of the United States. By measuring the nitrogen in ...
Fisheries nations to decide fate of declining bigeye tuna
Sep 28, 2018 (AFP)
Unless catch levels are sharply reduced, scientists warned, stocks of the fatty, fast-swimming predator could crash within a decade or two. Less iconic than Atl...
Imran Khan's bid to crowdfund $14bn for Pakistan dams
Sep 28, 2018 (AFP)
But Imran Khan wants Pakistanis to crowdfund a whopping $14 billion for desperately needed dams, a plea capitalising on nationalist fervour but ridiculed by det...
Seasonal reservoir filling in India deforms rock, may trigger earthquakes
Sep 27, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers in India used global positioning system (GPS) observations along with satellite-based radar data called InSAR to track the movement--particularly th...
It's not that bad! Science, tourism clash on Great Barrier Reef
Sep 27, 2018 (AFP)
Every year, more than two million snorkel-wielding tourists head to Australia's famed coral ecosystem, generating revenues of $4.3 billion (Aus$5.9 billion) and...
Spotlight on sea-level rise
Sep 26, 2018 (ESA)
The 25 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry Symposium gives participants the opportunity to share information gained from this particular sort of satellite inst...
New York seeks to claw back 'Big Oyster' past
Sep 25, 2018 (AFP)
Why? To build an oyster reef. The goal? To restore a billion oysters by 2035 to America's largest city -- not as a delicacy for the dinner table but in an envir...
Novel carbon source sustains deep-sea microorganism communities
Sep 25, 2018 (SPX)
The biological carbon pump is a cyclical process by which inorganic carbon from the atmosphere is fixed by marine lifeforms and transported through ocean layers...
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