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Kelp forests function differently in warming ocean
Aug 29, 2018 (SPX)
Lead author Albert Pessarrodona, now with the University of Western Australia, said the team studied the ecosystem consequences of an expanding warm-water kelp ...
Myanmar dam overflow floods 100 villages
Aug 29, 2018 (AFP)
No casualties have been reported but thousands were displaced and took shelter in temporary camps. Swar Chaung dam's spillway structure, which regulates the rel...
Shedding light on shallow waters
Aug 28, 2018 (ESA)
Earth's changing sea levels are crucial indicators of how our environment is fairing, but monitoring it manually can be a labour-intensive, expensive, and at ti...
Scientists find corals in deeper waters under stress too
Aug 28, 2018 (SPX)
A new study led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the Coral Reef Research Foundation (CRRF) in ...
What's behind the retreating kelps and expanding corals?
Aug 27, 2018 (SPX)
The National Institute for Environmental Studies, Hokkaido University, and the National Institute of Polar Research have shown for the first time that the combi...
Southern California coast emerges as a toxic algae hot spot
Aug 27, 2018 (SPX)
Episodic outbreaks of algae-produced toxins make Southern California coast emerges as a toxic algae hot spots every few years when stricken marine animals wash ...
Sea squirts provide insights into gut defense evolution
Aug 24, 2018 (UPI)
Both strategies guard against infection, but scientists have struggled to determine which mechanism evolved first and how they relate to each other. For clues, ...
Cook Islands does not want China debt write-off
Aug 24, 2018 (AFP)
Tonga Prime Minister Akilisi Pohiva floated the idea earlier this month, saying repayments were eroding national budgets and the issue should be discussed at ne...
UConn scientists create reverse osmosis membranes with tunable thickness
Aug 23, 2018 (SPX)
Accessing the oceans for drinking water, however, requires desalination technologies that are complicated and expensive. The most commonly used technology for d...
Swimmer resumes Pacific crossing record attempt
Aug 22, 2018 (AFP)
"Back in the water today! After avoiding a typhoon we're finally back at the swim point and continuing on with the swim," Ben Lecomte tweeted. Lecomte set off f...
New research reveals corals could be trained to survive environmental stress
Aug 22, 2018 (SPX)
"In a nutshell, we could train toughened corals in nurseries to improve their thermal resilience, helping them to better cope with rising sea temperatures befor...
Samoa rejects China Pacific debt forgiveness call
Aug 20, 2018 (AFP)
Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi said asking for aid loans to be forgiven painted an "unfaithful picture" of the recipient nation. Malielegaoi likened it to someone...
'Blast fishing' thrives in Libya's chaos
Aug 20, 2018 (AFP)
Dynamite fishing, or "blast fishing", has flourished -- with impunity -- since Libya's 2011 uprising that left the country awash with weapons and explosives. Th...
Sightings, satellites help track mysterious ocean giant
Aug 19, 2018 (AFP)
It may be the world's second largest fish, growing to more than 10 metres (35 feet), but the basking shark, or Cetorhinus maximus, is an enigma for scientists e...
The behavior of water: scientists find new properties of H2O
Aug 16, 2018 (SPX)
Liquid water is known to be an excellent transporter of its own autoionization products; that is, the charged species obtained when a water molecule (H2O) is sp...
Climate change multiplies harmful marine heatwaves
Aug 15, 2018 (AFP)
Even if humanity does manage to cap global warming "well below" two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), as called for in the Paris climate treaty, marine ...
Tonga PM calls on China to write-off Pacific debt
Aug 15, 2018 (AFP)
Chinese aid in the Pacific has ballooned in recent years with much of the funds coming in the form of loans from Beijing's state-run Exim Bank. Tonga has run-up...
Poachers in marine protected areas go unchallenged by their peers
Aug 14, 2018 (UPI)
Of those who witnessed their peers poaching, the majority ignored the illegal act. "Enforcement capacities are often limited, so managers are trying to encourag...
Does rain follow the plow
Aug 14, 2018 (SPX)
In the 19th century, the "rain follows the plow" myth was used to justify settlement of the Great Plains. The cultivation of semi-arid to arid land was said to ...
New Caledonia protects huge swathe of coral reefs
Aug 14, 2018 (AFP)
The Pacific nation, a French overseas territory, is home to a rich array of wildlife including 2.5 million seabirds and over 9,300 marine species, such as dugon...
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