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Uzbekistan calls for help over disappearing Aral Sea
Oct 29, 2014 (AFP)
Uzbekistan on Wednesday called for more international help over the shrinking of the Aral Sea, after recent images showed part of the lake had dried up complete...
Probe into cause of French protester's death veers towards police
Oct 28, 2014 (AFP)
A probe into the cause of a French eco-protester's death in violent clashes with security forces veered towards riot police Tuesday, in a new development to a c...
Plan won't save Great Barrier Reef: Australian scientists
Oct 28, 2014 (AFP)
Australia's plans to protect the Great Barrier Reef are inadequate, short-sighted and will not prevent its decline, the country's pre-eminent grouping of natura...
Global boom in hydropower expected this decade
Oct 28, 2014 (SPX)
An unprecedented boom in hydropower dam construction is underway, primarily in developing countries and emerging economies. While this is expected to double the...
Law of the Sea authorizes animal tagging without nations' consent
Oct 28, 2014 (SPX)
Many marine animals are world travelers, and scientists who study and track them can rarely predict through which nations' territorial waters their paths will l...
Desert Streams: Deceptively Simple
Oct 27, 2014 (SPX)
Volatile rainstorms drive complex landscape changes in deserts, particularly in dryland channels, which are shaped by flash flooding. Paradoxically, such desert...
Bodies at sea: How ocean oxygen levels may impact scavenger response
Oct 27, 2014 (SPX)
An ocean's oxygen levels may play a role in the impact of marine predators on bodies when they are immersed in the sea, according to Simon Fraser University res...
French protester killed by 'explosion', questions over police involvement
Oct 27, 2014 (AFP)
A protester who died during a clash at the site of a contested French dam project was wounded by "an explosion", a prosecutor said Monday, as questions grew ove...
Japan arrests Chinese fishing boat skipper over coral poaching
Oct 27, 2014 (AFP)
Japan's coastguard said it arrested a Chinese fishing boat captain Monday on suspicion of coral poaching after a high seas chase in the country's exclusive econ...
Sediment wreaks havoc with fish larvae
Oct 27, 2014 (SPX)
Sediments associated with dredging and flood plumes could have a significant impact on fish populations by extending the time required for the development of th...
Top marine scientists call for action on 'invisible' fisheries
Oct 27, 2014 (SPX)
To protect our oceans from irreversible harm, governments, conservationists, and researchers around the world must address the enormous threat posed by unregula...
New Insights on Carbonic Acid in Water
Oct 24, 2014 (SPX)
Though it garners few public hDrones help show how environmental changes affect the spread of infectious diseasess, carbonic acid, the hydrated form of carbon d...
China installs buoys in Pacific Ocean: report
Oct 22, 2014 (AFP)
China has installed 17 sets of submerged buoys in "key marine areas" of the western Pacific ocean, state media said, a move that could exacerbate territorial te...
Leipzig researchers discover new functionality of molecular light switches
Oct 22, 2014 (SPX)
Diatoms play an important role in water quality and in the global climate. They generate about one fourth of the oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere and perform ar...
The breathing sand
Oct 22, 2014 (SPX)
New analytical methods show for the first time, how the permeable, sandy sediment at the bottom of the North Sea is supplied with oxygen and which factors deter...
Businesses struggle on drought-hit Californian lake
Oct 21, 2014 (AFP)
It is a vast bowl of sand and rocks. It could be a lunar landscape, were it not surrounded by pine trees and dotted with shipwreck-like jetties and beached boat...
New study shows the importance of jellyfish falls to deep-sea ecosystem
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
This week, researchers from University of Hawai'i, Norway, and the UK have shown with innovative experiments that a rise in jellyfish blooms near the ocean's su...
Lake Erie increasingly susceptible to large cyanobacteria blooms
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
Lake Erie has become increasingly susceptible to large blooms of toxin-producing cyanobacteria since 2002, potentially complicating efforts to rein in the probl...
Rivers flow differently over gravel beds
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
River beds, where flowing water meets silt, sand and gravel, are critical ecological zones. Yet how water flows in a river with a gravel bed is very different f...
Researchers solve riddle of the rock pools
Oct 17, 2014 (SPX)
Research from the University of Exeter has revealed that the rock goby (Gobius paganellus), an unassuming little fish commonly found in rock pools around Britai...
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