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Shark fins found in Singapore Airlines shipment to Hong Kong
May 30, 2018 (AFP)
Hong Kong is one of the world's biggest shark fin trading hubs and it remains readily available in seafood stores and restaurants, despite pressure from conserv...
Water wars in India's hillside getaway Shimla as taps run dry
May 30, 2018 (AFP)
The mountain getaway is generally crowded with vacationers but hotels are closing and tourists being told to stay away as a crippling water shortage pinches the...
Water is not the same as water
May 30, 2018 (SPX)
From a chemical perspective, water is a molecule in which a single oxygen atom is linked to two hydrogen atoms. It is less well known that water exists in two d...
Researchers identify bacteria and viruses ejected from the ocean
May 29, 2018 (SPX)
An interdisciplinary team of scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University of California San Diego, and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCV...
Rise and fall of the Great Barrier Reef
May 29, 2018 (SPX)
Over millennia, the reef has adapted to sudden changes in environment by migrating across the sea floor as the oceans rose and fell. The study published in Natu...
Great Barrier Reef on sixth life in 30,000 years: study
May 28, 2018 (AFP)
And while this suggests the reef may be more resilient than once thought, it has likely never faced an onslaught quite as severe as today, they added. "I have g...
Loss of marine habitats is threatening the global fishing industry
May 25, 2018 (SPX)
The problem is that policies and plans designed to make sure there are enough fish and invertebrates almost exclusively target fishing activity. But we also nee...
Study reveals how high-latitude corals cope with the cold
May 25, 2018 (SPX)
The study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, suggests that ocean warming may not necessarily promote faster rates of calcification in reefs where...
Twin Spacecraft Launch to Track Earth's Water Movement
May 24, 2018 (SPX)
The twin spacecraft of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO), a joint NASA/German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) mission, lift...
World's biggest fisheries supported by seagrass meadows
May 24, 2018 (SPX)
The study, carried out in partnership with Dr Leanne Cullen-Unsworth at Cardiff University and Dr Lina Mtwana Nordlund at Stockholm University, demonstrates for...
Japanese student discovers new crustacean species in deep sea hydrothermal vent
May 24, 2018 (SPX)
This crustacean group lives only around deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the central Atlantic or eastern Pacific Oceans. The new species is the first of its kind ...
Excess nutrients, coupled with climate change, damage the most highly resilient corals
May 24, 2018 (SPX)
Despite this, scientists at Bar-Ilan University and the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science in Israel's southernmost city of Eilat have demonstrated in...
France vows to tackle noxious seaweed 'disaster' in Caribbean
May 24, 2018 (AFP)
The brown sargassum algae "is one more disaster for the West Indies, one which we here probably haven't fully taken into account," Environment Minister Nicolas ...
The ultrafast dance of liquid water
May 23, 2018 (SPX)
This appears as "caging effects" due to buildup of tetrahedral structures upon supercooling. The results, reported in Nature Communications on the 15th of May 2...
How a pair of satellites will 'weigh' water on Earth
May 22, 2018 (AFP)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to blast off at 3:47 pm (1947 GMT) Tuesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, hoisting into orbit the spacecraf...
Marine animals have been following their preferred climate for millions of years
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
Most living organisms on Earth have settled into ecological niches and one of the decisive factors in their choice of habitat is a certain temperature . Marine ...
Twin sportscar-sized satellites to chase water changes on Earth
May 21, 2018 (AFP)
Groundwater, oceans, lakes, rivers and ice sheets will be monitored by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO), a joint mission between...
Even low concentrations of silver can foil wastewater treatment
May 21, 2018 (SPX)
The findings suggest conventional toxicity testing methods for silver concentrations at treatment plants may produce results that yield a false sense of securit...
Peatland contributions to UK water security
May 21, 2018 (SPX)
The scientists estimated that in the UK 72.5% of the storage capacity of water supply reservoirs is peat-fed water. In the Republic of Ireland they estimated th...
Only 1 pct of Japan's biggest coral reef healthy: survey
May 18, 2018 (AFP)
The overall volume of coral in Sekisei Lagoon in southwestern Japan near Okinawa had already plunged by 80 percent since the late 1980s due to rising water temp...
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