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Large wildfires bring increases in annual river flow
Apr 16, 2018 (SPX)
Enhanced river flows are a good news, bad news proposition. The good news is more water can be a boon, such as serving as a hedge during times of scarce water. ...
Scientists use carbon nanotube technology to develop robust water desalination membranes
Apr 16, 2018 (SPX)
"Since more than 97 percent of the water in the world is saline water, reverse osmosis desalination plants for producing fresh water are increasingly important ...
Mississippi River diversions will produce new land, but slowly, Tulane study says
Apr 16, 2018 (SPX)
The study, published in the open-access journal Science Advances, used optical dating to measure how fast the delta shoreline migrated seaward under natural con...
Cactus roots inspire creation of water-retaining material
Apr 13, 2018 (SPX)
They say this unique material could lead to new and improved cosmetics, medical devices and other everyday products. Like all living things, cacti need water to...
Reconstruction of major North Atlantic circulation system shows weakening
Apr 13, 2018 (SPX)
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a large-scale system of ocean currents that circulates warm, salty water from the South Atlantic and t...
'Devastating' ocean heatwaves on the rise
Apr 12, 2018 (AFP)
From 1925 to 2016, the number of annual marine heatwave days globally jumped by 54 percent, with a noticeable acceleration over the last three decades, a paper ...
Gulf of Mexico dead zone not expected to shrink anytime soon
Apr 12, 2018 (SPX)
The results, which appear in Science, suggest that policy goals for reducing the size of the northern Gulf of Mexico's dead zone may be unrealistic, and that ma...
A natural fertilizer
Apr 12, 2018 (SPX)
A pioneering study - led by scientists from Imperial College London in collaboration with marine biologists from UC Santa Barbara - found that the predators, th...
Toxic levels of arsenic in Amazon basin well water: study
Apr 12, 2018 (AFP)
Samples taken from 250 sites along the Amazon -- the first systematic analysis of the region's well water -- also revealed hazardous levels of manganese and alu...
New study in oxygen-deprived black sea provides insights on future carbon budget
Apr 12, 2018 (SPX)
A new study led by researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science found that even in the absence of oxygen, the...
Race for Mexico's 'cocaine of the sea' pushes 2 species toward extinction
Apr 12, 2018 (AFP)
Half a world away, off the coast of Mexico, poachers battling each other for this "cocaine of the sea" are using drug cartel-like tactics to get it -- pushing t...
Ocean acidification: Herring could benefit from an altered food chain
Apr 12, 2018 (SPX)
Exactly these factors are currently changing on a global scale: temperature is rising, the oxygen content of the ocean is decreasing and more and more carbon di...
Marine researchers say recent sea star wasting disease epidemic defies prediction
Apr 11, 2018 (SPX)
Scientists aren't sure what causes this disease, known as sea star wasting syndrome (SSWS). Some researchers think the culprit could be a viral pathogen, but ev...
Research suggests water appeared while Earth was still growing
Apr 11, 2018 (SPX)
As part of that effort, a team including UChicago cosmochemist Nicolas Dauphas performed the largest study to date of oxygen isotopes in lunar rocks, and found ...
Cyprus on frontline against lionfish invasion of Med
Apr 11, 2018 (AFP)
After colonising parts of the Atlantic on the east coast of the United States and the Caribbean, lionfish are now invading the Mediterranean. After two dives, t...
KAIST discloses the formation of burning ice in oceanic clay rich sediment
Apr 10, 2018 (SPX)
Professor Tae-Hyuk Kwon from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and his team found that clay minerals in oceanic clay-rich sedimentary deposi...
New study shows vegetation controls the future of the water cycle
Apr 09, 2018 (SPX)
Columbia Engineering researchers have found that, to the contrary, vegetation plays a dominant role in Earth's water cycle and that plants will regulate and dom...
New underwater geolocation technique takes cues from nature
Apr 06, 2018 (SPX)
University of Queensland Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) scientists are part of a group of researchers who have developed the technique using imaging equipment...
Hanging by a thread: Why bent fibers hold more water
Apr 06, 2018 (SPX)
Inspired by the large droplets that form on a leaf tip or other thin filament, a team of researchers from Utah State University, University of Liege, Belgium, a...
Shrimp-inspired camera may enable underwater navigation
Apr 06, 2018 (SPX)
University of Illinois researchers have developed an underwater GPS method by using polarization information collected with a bio-inspired camera mimicking the ...
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