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Researchers discover sediment size matters in high-elevation erosion rates
Nov 23, 2015 (SPX)
When it comes to sediment in the High Sierra, size does matter, according to two University of Wyoming researchers. For the past four summers, Cliff Riebe, a UW...
Green campaigner readies to swim the Pacific
Nov 21, 2015 (AFP)
Never mind the sharks or the swirling ocean debris that await him, Benoit Lecomte is counting the days until his long-distance swim from Tokyo to San Francisco ...
Study finds High Plains Aquifer peak use by state, overall usage decline
Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)
A new Kansas State University study finds that the over-tapping of the High Plains Aquifer's groundwater beyond the aquifer's recharge rate peaked in 2006. Its ...
Study is first to map Earth's hidden groundwater
Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)
Groundwater: it's one of the planet's most exploited, most precious natural resources. It ranges in age from months to millions of years old. Around the world, ...
Shocking new way to get the salt out
Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)
As the availability of clean, potable water becomes an increasingly urgent issue in many parts of the world, researchers are searching for new ways to treat sal...
Global energy demand has adverse effects on freshwater of less developed nations
Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)
Global energy demand from developed nations has an adverse impact on freshwater resources in less developed nations according to a new study. While current ener...
La Nina is not helping Hawai'i's rainfall and groundwater
Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)
Historically when El Nino events occur, Hawai'i has experienced nearly six months of drought, from November to April. Conversely, during La Nina events rainfall...
Sharks' hunting ability destroyed under climate change
Nov 19, 2015 (SPX)
The hunting ability and growth of sharks will be dramatically impacted by increased CO2 levels and warmer oceans expected by the end of the century, a Universit...
A 'blood rain' infiltrates villages of Spain
Nov 19, 2015 (SPX)
The rainwater that fell in some of the villages of Zamora (Spain) last autumn brought along a strange traveller: a green microalgae that turns a reddish colour ...
Nanopores could take the salt out of seawater
Nov 18, 2015 (SPX)
University of Illinois engineers have found an energy-efficient material for removing salt from seawater that could provide a rebuttal to poet Samuel Taylor Col...
NASA adds up rainfall from 2 historic Yemen tropical cyclones
Nov 17, 2015 (SPX)
One week ago to the day Cyclone Chapala, the first Category 1 cyclone to strike Yemen in recorded history made landfall in Yemen, then a second tropical cyclone...
Thermal sensitivity of marine communities reveals the most vulnerable to global warming
Nov 17, 2015 (SPX)
The sensitivity of marine communities to ocean warming rather than rising ocean temperatures will have strong short-term impacts on biodiversity changes associa...
Study unlocks faster way to assess ocean ecosystem health
Nov 16, 2015 (SPX)
A new study published last week identifies a set of features common to all ocean ecosystems that provide a visual diagnosis of the health of the underwater envi...
Marine invasive species benefiting from rising carbon dioxide levels
Nov 15, 2015 (SPX)
Ocean acidification may well be helping invasive species of algae, jellyfish, crabs and shellfish to move to new areas of the planet with damaging consequences,...
Wildfires may double erosion across western US watersheds by 2050
Nov 12, 2015 (SPX)
In recent years, wildfires have burned trees and homes to the ground across many states in the western U.S., but the ground itself has not gotten away unscathed...
Jellyfish highly efficient swimmers
Nov 12, 2015 (SPX)
Previous studies have shown that jellyfish and eels can move using very low amounts of energy that would make a Toyota Prius jealous. In fact, these ocean deniz...
Shipping fears as Rhine falls to lowest level in 40 years
Nov 11, 2015 (AFP)
The Rhine has been hit by its longest period of low water in 40 years, Dutch officials said Wednesday, raising inland shipping costs and fears of collisions on ...
The astounding genome of the dinoflagellate
Nov 10, 2015 (SPX)
The dinoflagellates aren't happy. In good times, these tiny ocean creatures live free-floating in the ocean or symbiotically with corals, serving up--or as--lun...
Rapidly acidifying waters pose major threat for Southern Ocean ecosystem
Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)
As a result of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, the chemistry of the Southern Ocean is expected to change so fast over the next few decades...
Cracking the problem of river growth
Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)
A general mathematical theory that predicts how cracks spread through materials like glass and ice can also predict the direction in which rivers will grow, acc...
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