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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...
437 million tons of fish, $560 billion wasted due to destructive fishing operations
May 17, 2018 (SPX)
The study, carried out by the Sea Around Us initiative at UBC's Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF), documents the growth of bottom trawling between 19...
Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia agree study of contentious Nile dam
May 17, 2018 (AFP)
The announcement broke a long impasse in a dispute over Egyptian fears that the $4-billion (3.2-billion-euro) Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, being built on th...
New robot concept uses responsive materials to swim through water
May 16, 2018 (SPX)
The work blurs the boundary between materials and robots. In the self-propelled devices, the material itself makes the machine function. "Our examples show that...
Egypt's president hails 'breakthrough' in Nile dam talks
May 16, 2018 (AFP)
The progress, which he did not specify, took place over the last two days as the three countries' foreign and irrigation ministers as well as heads of intellige...
A clearer future for underwater exploration
May 15, 2018 (SPX)
The oceans provide an abundance of natural resources that support human life, from food and medicines to energy resources in oil and gas. The deep oceans are la...
Beavers do good work cleaning water
May 10, 2018 (SPX)
The research, led by hydrologist Professor Richard Brazier, found that the work of a single family of beavers had removed high levels of sediment, nitrogen and ...
The far-reaching effects of ocean floors on the sea surface
May 10, 2018 (SPX)
In the 2000s, pathways transporting warm water originating in the Kuroshio Current, a northward-flowing current on the western side of the North Pacific, were d...
Australia hikes aid in Pacific as China pushes for influence
May 09, 2018 (AFP)
The country has pledged more than Aus$1.3 billion (US$970 million) -- its largest ever aid commitment to the Pacific -- to fund projects including an undersea c...
Spring brings phytoplankton blooms to North Sea
May 08, 2018 (UPI)
As winter gives way to spring, and more of the sun reaches the waters closer to the poles, warmth and solar energy fuel the growth of phytoplankton colonies. Ph...
Engineered polymer membranes could be new option for water treatment
May 07, 2018 (SPX)
Polymer membranes, which act as a filter to desalinate and selectively remove contaminants from various water sources, have aided water treatment, but their sel...
Researchers levitate water droplets to improve contaminant detection
May 04, 2018 (SPX)
The new technique could eventually lead to instruments that perform real-time, on-site contaminant monitoring, which could help prevent future lead contaminatio...
Weeds take over kelp in high CO2 oceans
May 04, 2018 (SPX)
Published in the journal Ecology, the researchers describe how kelp forests are displaced by weedy marine plants in high CO2 conditions, equivalent to those pre...
Engineers upgrade ancient, sun-powered tech to purify water
May 04, 2018 (SPX)
Now, researchers are bringing this technology into the modern age, using it to sanitize water at what they report to be record-breaking rates. By draping black,...
Shipwrecks found during MH370 search identified
May 03, 2018 (AFP)
The Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people, mostly from China, on board while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. No sign of the j...
Flaw found in water treatment method
May 03, 2018 (SPX)
To rid water of compounds that are known to be toxic, water treatment plants now often use methods to oxidize them, turning them into other, presumably less har...
Nile dam won't harm Egypt, says new Ethiopian leader
May 03, 2018 (AFP)
Egypt relies almost totally on the Nile for irrigation and drinking water, and says it has "historic rights" to the river, guaranteed by treaties from 1929 and ...
Climate change will boost global lake evaporation
May 03, 2018 (SPX)
While it is commonly believed that lake evaporation is controlled primarily by incoming solar radiation, the researchers used modeling tools to show that other ...
Scientists discover balance of thermal energy and low climate stress drive coral species diversity
May 02, 2018 (SPX)
In a new study recently published in the Journal of Biogeography, scientists from a number of institutions working in the western Indian Ocean found that, in ce...
For reef fish, tolerance for warming waters comes from their parents' DNA
May 01, 2018 (UPI)
In lab tests, scientists found the offspring of parents who were exposed to water temperatures increases were better able to adapt water temperatures increases ...
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