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Feeding patterns among coastal, deep ocean sharks differ, study shows
Jan 18, 2018 (UPI)
Shark populations are declining across the globe, suggesting new and more robust conservation approaches are desperately needed. The researchers behind the late...
New application for acoustics helps estimate marine life populations
Jan 17, 2018 (SPX)
They found that the abundance of fishes was four times greater in Mexico's protected Cabo Pulmo National Park than in areas outside the park. Study authors said...
Australia offers cash for Great Barrier Reef rescue ideas
Jan 16, 2018 (AFP)
The UNESCO World Heritage-listed reef is reeling from significant coral bleaching due to warming sea temperatures linked to climate change. The 2,300-kilometre ...
Drought-stricken Cape Town faces dry taps by April 21
Jan 16, 2018 (AFP)
If rains do not materialise and drastic consumption reductions are not achieved by "Day Zero", the city's people face the prospect of queueing at standpipes for...
Sisi vows to protect Egypt's water supply
Jan 15, 2018 (AFP)
"Egypt will not go to war with its brothers," Sisi said on state television, although Cairo fears its water supply will be affected by Ethiopia's Grand Renaissa...
Sea levels off Dutch coast highest ever recorded in 2017
Jan 13, 2018 (AFP)
"The level has been rising gradually since 1890 by about 0.2 cm per year due to the melting of the ice and the warming up of the ocean," expert Fedor Baart, of ...
China lavishes cash on ally Cambodia with eyes on the Mekong
Jan 11, 2018 (AFP)
The storied waterway, which twists through parts of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, is the world's largest inland fishery and helps feed around 6...
New depth limit for deep-sea marine burrows
Jan 11, 2018 (SPX)
A team of scientists from the University of Leeds and the National Oceanography Centre examined remains of deep-sea burrows in rocky outcrops that were part of ...
Top European chefs take electric pulse fishing off the menu
Jan 11, 2018 (AFP)
"We refuse to work with seafood coming from a fishing method that condemns our future and that of the ocean," said the text written by Christopher Coutanceau, w...
China lodges protest against Australian 'white elephant' remarks
Jan 10, 2018 (AFP)
Friction between the two countries grew last month after Australia singled out China as a focus of concern when it proposed laws on foreign interference, drawin...
A new approach paves the way for large-scale coral reef restoration
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
Today, reef degradation occurs at a scale of hundreds and thousands of square kilometers. In contrast, current restoration activities are usually less than one ...
French cop cleared over death of anti-dam protester
Jan 09, 2018 (AFP)
The shocking death of Remi Fraisse triggered riots in several French cities. The 21-year-old botany student died after being hit by the grenade during clashes b...
The ocean is losing its breath - here's the global scope
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
To halt the decline, the world needs to rein in both climate change and nutrient pollution, an international team of scientists including Lisa Levin, a biologic...
US rivers and streams are compromised by increasing salt loads
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
Using five decades of streamwater data from 232 U.S. Geological Survey monitoring sites, researchers found 37 percent of the drainage area of the contiguous US ...
European sampling sheds light on massive diversity of freshwater plankton
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
Their new-age approach to biodiversity studies resulted in the largest freshwater dataset along with a study published in the open access journal Metabarcoding ...
Egypt building huge water treatment plant amid supply concerns
Jan 08, 2018 (AFP)
The North African country is constructing "the largest wastewater treatment and desalination plant", President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said live on state televisio...
Poisonous and running out: Pakistan's water crisis
Jan 08, 2018 (AFP)
Cloaked in a colourful blanket, Kinza moves in slow motion, like a small doll. Her mother, Sartaj, does not understand how her daughter became so ill. "Each tim...
Florida takes on Georgia in US Supreme Court over water
Jan 08, 2018 (AFP)
On one side in the decades-old dispute is the state of Georgia. On the other is its southern neighbor, Florida. Florida v. Georgia concerns the Chattahoochee an...
Power stacked against SE Asia's poor as China dams Mekong
Jan 08, 2018 (AFP)
The 32-year-old, whose ethnic Cham Muslim community live on rickety house boats that bob along a river bend in Kandal province, says the size of his daily catch...
Ocean acidification altering the architecture of California mussel shells
Jan 05, 2018 (UPI)
Traditionally, long, cylindrical calcite crystals for neat and predictable rows in the shells of California mussels, Mytilus californianus. But as detailed in a...
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