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GenDyn features Bluefin Robotics underwater drone

Sep 23, 2016 (UPI)

General Dynamics Missions Systems featured the Bluefin Robotics underwater drone this week at the OCEANS 2016 conference. The Hovering-Autonomous Underwater Veh...

Coral fish stress out if separated from 'shoal-mates'

Sep 22, 2016 (AFP)

Coral fish become stressed and lose weight if they are separated from each other, hampering their chances of survival, an Australian study revealed Thursday. Sc...

NAVTOR takes maritime lead for EU autonomous vessel project

Sep 21, 2016 (SPX)

NAVTOR is to spend the next three years helping the EU chart a route towards autonomous vessels. The Norwegian firm, a global leader in e-Navigation technology ...

New wave buoy boosts Wallops' shoreline protection efforts

Sep 21, 2016 (SPX)

A new offshore directional wave buoy is reinforcing NASA's efforts to manage, protect and renourish the Wallops Island shoreline, which protects some $1.2 billi...

French firms to gauge impact of Nile dam project

Sep 20, 2016 (AFP)

Two French engineering companies formally signed a contract in Sudan on Tuesday to conduct environmental impact studies on Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam proj...

Amsterdam to pilot world's first 'self-drive' boats

Sep 20, 2016 (AFP)

Amsterdam's iconic canals may soon see the world's first driverless boats, doing everything from moving people and goods to providing "pop-up" bridges and clean...

Nitrates poison water in California's Central Valley

Sep 20, 2016 (AFP)

In California's Central Valley, where verdant fields of fruit and vegetables unfurl under sunny skies, the water that feeds them -- and flows into taps across t...

Tunisia water shortages spark 'thirst uprising' warning

Sep 19, 2016 (AFP)

Activists are warning of a potential "thirst uprising" in Tunisia following protests over severe water shortages after one of the North African nation's driest ...

Vietnam investigating new fish deaths

Sep 16, 2016 (AFP)

Vietnam is investigating new mass fish deaths along its central coast, an official said Friday, months after a major steel plant was blamed for a toxic leak tha...

Spain's Donana wetlands going dry, WWF warns

Sep 15, 2016 (AFP)

It's one of Europe's most important wetland reserves, a World Heritage site full of lagoons, woodlands, pristine beaches and dunes, home to more than 4,000 spec...

DiCaprio unveils free technology to spy on global fishing

Sep 15, 2016 (AFP)

American movie star Leonardo DiCaprio unveiled Thursday a free technology that allows users to spy on global fishing practices, in a bid to curb illegal activit...

Study: Largest marine species most likely to be wiped out by humans

Sep 14, 2016 (UPI)

A new survey of extinction patterns suggests the ocean's largest species are most likely to be wiped out by humans. "We've found that extinction threat in the m...

Scientists consider the future of seafood and farmed fish

Sep 14, 2016 (UPI)

What does the future of sustainable seafood look like? That's what scientists at the University of California are asking themselves as they consider how the wor...

New bivalve species dwelling on a sea cucumber discovered in Japan

Sep 13, 2016 (SPX)

Most bivalves live in sand or mud or attached to rock surface. However, a new bivalve species described from Japan lives on a sea cucumber. Ryutaro Goto, postdo...

Scientists recommend strategies to reduce environmental damage from dams

Sep 12, 2016 (SPX)

Dams around the world provide critical water supplies and hydropower to growing communities and hundreds of new dams are proposed for developing economies. Thou...

Green-powered boat readies for round-the-world voyage

Sep 12, 2016 (AFP)

Dubbed the "Solar Impulse of the Seas," the first boat to be powered solely by renewable energies and hydrogen hopes to make its own historic trip around the wo...

Scotland aims for global lead in tidal energy

Sep 12, 2016 (UPI)

The Scottish government said it was putting funding forward to help develop what it says may be the first large-scale tidal power operation in the world. Scotla...

Protests over water supplies hit India's tech hub

Sep 12, 2016 (AFP)

Violent protests have broken out in the southern technology hub of Bangalore over a Supreme Court order to divert water from reservoirs to a neighbouring state....

GenDyn demos capabilities of underwater drone

Sep 12, 2016 (UPI)

An autonomous underwater vehicle from General Dynamics has successfully launched mini-drones as part of a U.S. Navy-sponsored capability exercise. In several de...

How do shark teeth bite

Sep 12, 2016 (SPX)

The ocean predators use their buzz saw mouths to efficiently dismantle prey, ranging from marine mammals and sea turtles to seabirds and - as Hollywood likes to...