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NASA Data Suggest Future May Be Rainier Than Expected
Jun 15, 2017 (JPL)
Wait a minute: how can fewer clouds lead to more rainfall? Globally, rainfall isn't related just to the clouds that are available to make rain but also to Earth...
Seeing inside coral
Jun 15, 2017 (SPX)
Kim and his team members are among the first to use a novel chemical technique to study coral skeletons to document the impacts from human activity. A new study...
Larger-than-normal dead zone expected in Chesapeake Bay this summer
Jun 15, 2017 (UPI)
The dead zone, an area with little to no oxygen, is expected to reach a peak size of 1.89 cubic miles -- the equivalent of 3.2 million Olympic-size swimming poo...
Lost ecosystem found buried in mud of southern California coastal waters
Jun 14, 2017 (SPX)
These brachiopods and scallops had thrived along a section of coast stretching approximately 250 miles from San Diego to Santa Barbara for at least 4,000 years....
New Amazon dams would be 'massively' destructive: study
Jun 14, 2017 (AFP)
Writing in the journal Nature, the scientists unveiled a Dam Environmental Vulnerability Index (DEVI) to score the impact of these future dams across a broad ra...
Flint water scandal prompts manslaughter charge for health chief
Jun 14, 2017 (AFP)
In what has become a notorious case, Flint's drinking water was contaminated three years ago, when in a cost-saving effort, officials switched to a more corrosi...
'Plankton explosion' turns Istanbul's Bosphorus turquoise
Jun 14, 2017 (AFP)
The sudden transformation of the usually blue waters of the Bosphorus to a milky turquoise since the weekend had alarmed some residents. Some took to social med...
DRCongo seeks joint Chinese-Spanish offer to build dam
Jun 13, 2017 (AFP)
The request will further delay the huge project, known as Inga 3, that has been planned for around 30 years. The government had said it would award the contract...
New-generation material removes iodine from water
Jun 12, 2017 (SPX)
The new-generation microporous material designed at Dartmouth is the result of chemically stitching small organic molecules to form a framework that scrubs the ...
Hong Kong activists dress as sharks to protest finning
Jun 10, 2017 (AFP)
The southern Chinese city is one of the world's biggest markets for shark fin, which is viewed by many Asians as a delicacy, often served as a soup at expensive...
US backs UN call to save oceans but no action on climate
Jun 09, 2017 (AFP)
The declaration capped the UN's first-ever ocean conference, which opened on Monday under the shadow of the US exit from the 190-plus Paris agreement on climate...
Boeing, Huntington Ingalls giving boost to Navy UUV program
Jun 08, 2017 (UPI)
The teaming, which will leverage design and production facilities in California, Virginia and Florida, to expand the autonomous paradigm for UUV's for the Navy'...
Branson petitions UN for oceans protection
Jun 08, 2017 (AFP)
Speaking to reporters after the first Ocean Conference convened by the United Nations, Branson reiterated his criticism of US President Donald Trump's withdrawa...
Scientists look to coral insides for evidence of environmental damage
Jun 07, 2017 (UPI)
A plethora of scientific studies have highlighted the peril faced by the planet's coral reefs. Rising water temperatures, ocean acidification, overfishing and p...
One Man's Shoes Help NASA Explain Water Clarity
Jun 07, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists make precise measurements of water clarity from satellite data, but the calculations can be complex and hard to explain to people outside the discipl...
At UN ocean conference, US takes aim at illegal fishing
Jun 07, 2017 (AFP)
President Donald Trump's envoy to the conference, David Balton, said the ocean and its resources are "under tremendous pressure from a variety of threats - incl...
Envoys wade in to help US waters despite Trump climate snub
Jun 06, 2017 (AFP)
But on Monday, American officials joined world diplomats wading out into the Potomac estuary to replant seagrass in a telling gesture paired with an unlikely ph...
Fish uses special lips to eat razor-sharp, venomous coral
Jun 05, 2017 (UPI)
The vast majority of fish species utilize coral exclusively for shelter. Of the 6,000 fish species that call coral reefs home, only 128 species have been observ...
Understanding a river's 'thermal landscape' may be the key to saving it
Jun 05, 2017 (SPX)
However, a suite of new technologies and methods, driven by inexpensive sensor technology, are enabling new insights, with significant implications for the futu...
Stony corals more resistant to climate change than thought, Rutgers study finds
Jun 05, 2017 (SPX)
"The bottom line is that corals will make rock even under adverse conditions," said Paul G. Falkowski, a distinguished professor who leads the Environmental Bio...
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