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Six more officials charged in Flint water scandal
Jul 29, 2016 (AFP)
Authorities in the US state of Michigan filed criminal charges Friday against six current and former state officials over lead water contamination in the city o...
CryoSat sets new standard for measuring sea levels
Jul 28, 2016 (ESA)
Trying to measure sea levels around rugged coastlines is not always an easy task. ESA's CryoSat satellite is making a difference with its radar altimeter. Sea l...
Water resilience that flows
Jul 28, 2016 (SPX)
Communities around the world are familiar with the devastation brought on by floods and droughts. Scientists are concerned that, in light of global climate chan...
Dirty to drinkable
Jul 28, 2016 (SPX)
Graphene oxide has been hailed as a veritable wonder material; when incorporated into nanocellulose foam, the lab-created substance is light, strong and flexibl...
Exploring one of the largest salt flats in the world
Jul 28, 2016 (SPX)
A recent research report about one of the largest lithium brine and salt deposits in the world in Chile's Atacama Desert by geoscientists from the University of...
Cod and climate
Jul 28, 2016 (SPX)
In recent decades, the plight of Atlantic cod off the coast of New England has been front-page news. Since the 1980s in particular, the once-seemingly inexhaust...
Middle atmosphere in sync with the ocean
Jul 28, 2016 (SPX)
Water plays a major role for our planet not only in its liquid form at the surface. In the atmosphere too, it considerably affects our lives as well as weather ...
World's deepest blue hole found in South China Sea
Jul 28, 2016 (UPI)
A diving expedition has revealed the South China Sea's Dragon Hole, or Longdong, to be the deepest blue hole in the world. According to state news service Xinhu...
US military bases at risk from sea level rise: study
Jul 27, 2016 (AFP)
US military bases along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico will be increasingly vulnerable to floods and power-packed storms as the planet warms, researchers...
Cities face dramatic increase in water treatment spending when watersheds are developed
Jul 27, 2016 (SPX)
A new global study has found that one in three large cities spend 50 percent more on water treatment costs as a result of damage to the ecological quality of th...
Marine carbon sinking rates confirm importance of polar oceans
Jul 27, 2016 (SPX)
About the same amount of atmospheric carbon that goes into creating plants on land goes into the bodies of tiny marine plants known as plankton. When these plan...
Oceanographers grow, sequence genome of ocean microbe important to climate change
Jul 26, 2016 (SPX)
Sea turtles and whales may be the charismatic critters of the sea, but the true kingpins of the ocean make up 98 percent of the ocean's biomass - and yet indivi...
Mines hydrology research provides 'missing link' in water modeling
Jul 26, 2016 (SPX)
Groundbreaking research on global water supply co-authored by Colorado School of Mines Hydrology Professor Reed Maxwell and alumna Laura Condon, now assistant p...
World Bank freezes funds for DR Congo dam project
Jul 26, 2016 (AFP)
The World Bank has frozen funding for a massive dam project in the Democratic Republic of Congo after the government altered plans for the project. The Bank sai...
Oceans May be Large, Overlooked Source of Hydrogen Gas
Jul 22, 2016 (SPX)
Rocks formed beneath the ocean floor by fast-spreading tectonic plates may be a large and previously overlooked source of free hydrogen gas (H2), a new Duke Uni...
PACE will help uncover new information about health of our oceans
Jul 21, 2016 (SPX)
NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission is a first-of-its-kind project that aims to answer key questions about the consequences of clima...
Ocean acidification - the limits of adaptation
Jul 21, 2016 (SPX)
In an unprecedented evolutionary experiment, scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Thunen Institute of Fisheries Ecology demon...
Ocean Glider tells quite a tale after 74 days at sea
Jul 21, 2016 (SPX)
The Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) ocean glider made 344 dives, surfacing regularly to transmit data by satellite back to land where oceanographers h...
Massive sewage spill forces closure of Los Angeles beaches
Jul 20, 2016 (AFP)
Several beaches in the Los Angeles area were shut down on Tuesday after nearly 2.5 million gallons (9.5 million liters) of sewage spilled out from a ruptured li...
South Africa's great white sharks face extinction: study
Jul 20, 2016 (AFP)
South Africa's great white sharks face the threat of extinction after a rapid decline in numbers caused by trophy hunting, shark nets and pollution, according t...
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