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Dying Guatemala lake underlines climate change threat
May 15, 2017 (AFP)
This is what is left of Lake Atescatempa, once a vast blue-green body of water in southwestern Guatemala. Now the lake is dying, a conspicuous victim of the cli...
Warmer temperatures cause decline in key runoff measure
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
While this decline was driven in part by the transition from an unusually wet period to an unusually dry period, rising temperatures deepened the trend, the res...
Large storms can flood aging sewer systems with harmful bacteria, viruses
May 12, 2017 (UPI)
Modern sewer systems separate human waste and storm runoff. But in many old sewer systems, a single pipe handles both. Environmental scientist Jyotsna Jagai has...
As summer heat looms, post-IS Mosul faces water crisis
May 12, 2017 (AFP)
"There's no water in the area," Said Ahmed Fathi, a resident of the village nestled in a picturesque meander of the Tigris River but marooned in a key military ...
Dutch design breakthrough fast tracks oceans clean-up plan
May 11, 2017 (AFP)
Boyan Slat's innovative scheme seeks to use ocean currents to help gather up an estimated five trillion pieces of plastic -- everything from bottles, to plastic...
New method can selectively remove micropollutants from water
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
The new approach is described in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, in a paper by MIT postdoc Xiao Su, Ralph Landau Professor of Chemical Engineering...
US fishing generated more than $200 billion in sales in 2015; two stocks rebuilt in 2016
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
Also out this week, the Annual Report to Congress on the Status of U.S. Fisheries shows that the number of domestic fish stocks listed as overfished or subject ...
New research could transform how we filter water
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
The research was led by Dr Orest Shardt of University of Limerick, Ireland together with Dr Sangwoo Shin (now at University of Hawaii, Manoa), while they were p...
Puerto Rico drinking water is worst in US: report
May 10, 2017 (AFP)
Nearly every person in Puerto Rico -- 99.5 percent of the population -- was served by water systems that had violations in 2015, including failure to test for c...
Lake water recharged by atmospheric precipitation in the Badain Jaran Desert
May 09, 2017 (SPX)
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the unique natural landscape of Badain Jaran Desert has received considerable research attention, especially whether th...
Robots may bring reef relief
May 09, 2017 (SPX)
While coral reefs worldwide are in decline, the waters surrounding Bonaire comprise a marine park known as a scuba "diver's paradise" because it contains some o...
Decades of data on world's oceans reveal a troubling oxygen decline
May 08, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology looked at a historic dataset of ocean information stretching back more than 50 years and searched for long term t...
Australian scientists say shark cull could wreck marine ecosystems
May 08, 2017 (UPI)
"If there is a lack of sharks, then fish and other ocean creatures that would otherwise be consumed by sharks will become too numerous and eat too many smaller ...
Engie profit slips as hydro output down
May 05, 2017 (AFP)
The company, which began a major transformation effort last year, said operating profit dropped 5.9 percent to 3.3 billion euros ($3.6 billion), considerably be...
New Tool May Assist US Regional Sea Level Planning
May 05, 2017 (JPL)
That's because sea level changes for many reasons, on differing timescales, and is not the same from one place to the next. Developing more accurate regional fo...
Kongsberg Maritime chosen for new German research vessel
May 04, 2017 (UPI)
It would be the world's first government-owned ship powered by liquefied natural gas and will include advanced information sharing technology, propulsion manage...
How do fishes perceive their environment?
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
The ide (Leuciscus idus) is a fish that inhabits the lower stretches of slow-flowing rivers. Like most fishes, it can perceive the current using its lateral lin...
Some corals adapting to warming climate
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
The study looked at responses to extreme temperature exposures in the same reefs over time, and found less coral bleaching in 11 of the 21 coral species studied...
New coral bleaching database to help predict fate of global reefs
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
Until now, knowledge of the geographic extent of mass coral bleaching has been incomplete. "We know that mass coral bleaching is happening all over the world, b...
Cold-water corals: Acidification harms, warming promotes growth
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
With fewer carbonate ions, calcification becomes more difficult. However, laboratory studies at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel reveal, that a s...
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