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Sediment record in deep coral reefs studied
Dec 07, 2015 (SPX)
A University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science-led research team analyzed the sediments of mesophotic coral reefs, deep reef com...
Kiribati envisages floating islands in 'crazy' climate plan
Dec 04, 2015 (AFP)
Giant floating islands, castle-like sea walls and mass migration are among some of the "crazy" plans the leader of Kiribati has to save his low-lying Pacific na...
Waters are more polluted than tests say
Dec 03, 2015 (SPX)
Bodies of water are "sinks", and thereby bind contaminants particularly well. If even slightly toxic concentrations in water are to be detected, the growth and ...
New membrane may solve fresh water shortages
Dec 03, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Hiroshima University have developed a technology that improves the removal of salt from seawater, a breakthrough that may alleviate the increasin...
A fine kettle of fish
Dec 03, 2015 (SPX)
For years, scientific literature - as well as fisheries management and conservation efforts - has assumed that the survival of adult fish is relatively constant...
Water-clearning photocatalysts work better after being microwaved
Dec 03, 2015 (UPI)
Photocatalysts are materials that absorb sunlight and speed up chemical reactions. Some are used to cleanup wastewater. But though they're considered a "green t...
For Spanish fishermen, sea's bounty includes plastic
Dec 03, 2015 (AFP)
At sunrise in the fishing port of Villajoyosa in eastern Spain, a fleet of traditional fishing boats sets out on the Mediterranean to hunt for cuttlefish, prawn...
Senegalese villages swallowed by the sea
Dec 01, 2015 (AFP)
Behind the remains of washed-away fences, crumbling houses dot an expanse of the northern Senegalese coastline where a swollen river and an advancing sea are sw...
Increased carbon dioxide enhances plankton growth
Nov 30, 2015 (SPX)
Coccolithophores - tiny calcifying plants that are part of the foundation of the marine food web - have been increasing in relative abundance in the North Atlan...
CO2 keeps even small fry invasive carp at bay
Nov 27, 2015 (SPX)
University of Illinois researcher Cory Suski has already shown that bubbling high concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) into water is a deterrent to invasive A...
Fish use smart camouflage mechanism in open ocean waters
Nov 27, 2015 (SPX)
The vast open ocean presents an especially challenging environment for its inhabitants since there is nowhere for them to hide. Yet, nature has found a remarkab...
Powerful new global arena needed to confront coming water challenges
Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)
The supreme importance of water and sanitation to development and well-being merits creation of a powerful new global arena inside the UN, dedicated to resolvin...
Better catalysts will remove carcinogenic chlorine compounds from water
Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)
The Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw has just unveiled two new catalysts developed in close cooperation with the Jagi...
Marine animals use new form of secret light communication
Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute at The University of Queensland have uncovered a new form of secret light communication used by marine animals. ...
Warming ocean worsened Australia's fatal 2011 floods
Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)
As world leaders gather in Paris at the end of the month for the COP 21 climate summit, new research from scientists reveals the destructive impact the warming ...
Low-oxygen 'dead zones' in North Pacific linked to past ocean-warming events
Nov 25, 2015 (SPX)
A new study has found a link between abrupt ocean warming at the end of the last ice age and the sudden onset of low-oxygen, or hypoxic conditions that led to v...
Fish skin provides invisibility in open ocean
Nov 25, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists have solved a longstanding mystery about how some fish seem to disappear from predators in the open waters of the ocean, a discovery that could help ...
River turbines turn Austria's Danube from blue to green
Nov 25, 2015 (AFP)
The Wachau, a picture-postcard river valley in Austria, makes a lot of wine. Soon it could be producing its own electricity too, and in a way that will not spoi...
Tahiti pearls, mainstay of French Polynesian economy, endangered
Nov 24, 2015 (AFP)
The black pearl of Tahiti is at the heart of French Polynesia's economy but is now highly vulnerable to climate change, and its fragile existence underlines - i...
Small landscape changes can mean big freshwater gains
Nov 23, 2015 (SPX)
A typical bird's-eye view of the Midwest offers a patchwork landscape covered mostly by agriculture but mottled with forest, wetland, grassland, buildings and p...
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