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Vietnamese rally against Taiwan firm over mass fish deaths
May 01, 2016 (AFP)
Hundreds of people gathered Sunday in the Vietnamese capital to protest against a Taiwanese company suspected of involvement in a toxic leak that has hit the fi...
Burkina capital hit by water shortage
May 01, 2016 (AFP)
Burkina Faso will impose restrictions on water supplies in the capital Ouagadougou next week to tackle a serious shortage in the city of two million, officials ...
Coral 'toolkit' allows floating larvae to transform into reef skeletons
Apr 29, 2016 (SPX)
In a study published this week, researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UHM), Rutgers University, and the University of Haifa identified key and no...
Measuring river surface flow with image analysis
Apr 29, 2016 (SPX)
Fujita Ichiro, a Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering in Kobe University, has developed a piece of software that can measure the flow rate of rivers ...
Algae disrupt coral reefs' recycling
Apr 29, 2016 (SPX)
Coral reefs rely on a masterful recycling program to stay healthy. The corals and algae that form the base of the reef's food web release a variety of nutrients...
Deep-sea biodiversity impacted by climate change's triple threat
Apr 29, 2016 (SPX)
A new study found that vulnerability of deep-sea biodiversity to climate change's triple threat - rising water temperatures, and decreased oxygen, and pH levels...
Large parts of Barrier Reef dead in 20 years: scientists
Apr 29, 2016 (AFP)
Large parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef could be dead within 20 years as climate change drives mass coral bleaching, scientists warned Friday. The World H...
Protecting diversity on coral reefs: DNA may hold the key
Apr 29, 2016 (SPX)
Coral reefs are widely known for their stunning array of color, shape and forms of life, making them a model for extreme biodiversity. Hidden within the multitu...
Widespread loss of ocean oxygen to become noticeable in 2030s
Apr 29, 2016 (SPX)
A reduction in the amount of oxygen dissolved in the oceans due to climate change is already discernible in some parts of the world and should be evident across...
Scientists discover new reef system at mouth of Amazon River
Apr 29, 2016 (SPX)
A new reef system has been found at the mouth of the Amazon River, the largest river by discharge of water in the world. As large rivers empty into the world's ...
Proteus underwater vehicle completes unmanned endurance test
Apr 28, 2016 (UPI)
A dual-mode undersea vehicle developed by Undersea Solutions Group and Battelle has successfully completed endurance testing. Huntington Ingalls Industries, par...
Patterns of glowing sharks get clearer with depth
Apr 28, 2016 (SPX)
A team of researchers led by scientists from the American Museum of Natural History has found that catsharks are not only able to see the bright green biofluore...
Climate change threatens Iran's great salt lake
Apr 28, 2016 (SPX)
These dire findings are the result of a new study by researchers from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and Wageningen...
Plastic below the ocean surface
Apr 27, 2016 (SPX)
Plastics are all around us. They are found in containers and packing materials, children's toys, medical devices and electronics. Unfortunately, plastics are al...
Ireland edges closer to forming new government with deal on water charges
Apr 27, 2016 (AFP)
A deal between two rival parties to suspend controversial water charges nudged Ireland closer to the formation of a minority government on Wednesday after more ...
NASA helps mmonitor LA coastline
Apr 27, 2016 (JPL)
When a Los Angeles water treatment plant had to discharge treated water closer to shore than usual in the fall of 2015 due to repair work, NASA satellite observ...
Obama to visit water crisis-hit Flint
Apr 27, 2016 (AFP)
President Barack Obama will next week travel to Flint, Michigan, where a crisis over tainted water has become a focus of the 2016 election campaign, the White H...
Giant plankton gains long-due attention
Apr 26, 2016 (SPX)
A team of marine biologists and oceanographers from CNRS, UPMC1 and the German organization GEOMAR have revealed the importance in all the world's oceans of a g...
Promiscuity may help some corals survive bleaching events
Apr 26, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers have shown for the first time that some corals surviving bleaching events can acquire and host new types of algae from their environment, which may ...
Ocean currents push phytoplankton around the globe faster than thought
Apr 25, 2016 (SPX)
The billions of single-celled marine organisms known as phytoplankton can drift from one region of the world's oceans to almost any other place on the globe in ...
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