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Fish, new coral steer clear of smelly, damaged reefs
Aug 21, 2014 (UPI)
Young coral and fish know a crummy neighborhood when they see it, or when they smell it, rather. According to new research, damaged reefs give off distinct smel...
Water crisis threatens thirsty Sao Paulo
Aug 21, 2014 (AFP)
Sao Paulo is thirsty. A severe drought is hitting Brazil's largest city and thriving economic capital with no end in sight, threatening the municipal water supp...
Older coral species more hardy
Aug 21, 2014 (SPX)
New research indicates older species of coral have more of what it takes to survive a warming and increasingly polluted climate, according to biologists from th...
Unraveling the mysteries of the Red Sea
Aug 21, 2014 (SPX)
The hard corals primarily responsible for the construction of coral reefs around the world have attracted the attention of taxonomists for hundreds of years. De...
Mosul dam: A life source in northern Iraq
Aug 18, 2014 (AFP)
The Mosul dam is the biggest in Iraq and a strategic site that provides water and electricity to more than a million people in the north of the country. Islamic...
Three Radars are Better than One
Aug 18, 2014 (SPX)
Putting three radars on a plane to measure rainfall may seem like overkill. But for the Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology Experiment field campaign in Nort...
Dust - and the microbes hitching rides on it - influences rain, climate
Aug 18, 2014 (SPX)
Dusty air blowing across the Pacific from Asia and Africa plays a critical role in precipitation patterns throughout the drought-stricken western U.S. Today, a ...
Donetsk queues for water as fighting shuts off supply
Aug 18, 2014 (AFP)
Anastasiya clutches two empty five-litre bottles as she joins a queue of Donetsk residents buying water in the rebel-held east Ukrainian city where supplies wer...
Showers dry up as water shortages add to Gaza misery
Aug 17, 2014 (AFP)
Feriel al-Zaaneen hasn't had a shower in more than a month. Like thousands of Palestinians, she doesn't have enough water to wash, adding to the miseries of lif...
El Nino Fizzle or Sizzle
Aug 15, 2014 (SPX)
July was a rough month for the potential development of El Nino. Waiting for El Nino is starting to feel like Waiting for Godot. As Emily discussed in her post ...
Fishermen try to rid Maine's Frenchman Bay of green crabs
Aug 14, 2014 (UPI)
There's a new out-of-towner invading the coastal waters of Maine, and fishermen and conservationists are worried. Green crabs moved into Maine waters more than ...
'Poor' outlook for Barrier Reef as climate change threatens
Aug 13, 2014 (AFP)
Climate change remains the most serious threat to the Great Barrier Reef and the outlook for the natural wonder is "poor", an Australian government report has w...
Northern Pacific's tropical anoxic zone might shrink from climate change
Aug 11, 2014 (SPX)
A commonly held belief that global warming will diminish oxygen concentrations in the ocean looks like it may not be entirely true. According to new research pu...
Water's reaction with metal oxides opens doors for researchers
Aug 11, 2014 (SPX)
A multi-institutional team has resolved a long-unanswered question about how two of the world's most common substances interact. In a paper published recently i...
Ancient shellfish remains rewrite 10,000-year history of El Nino cycles
Aug 11, 2014 (SPX)
The planet's largest and most powerful driver of climate changes from one year to the next, the El Nino Southern Oscillation in the tropical Pacific Ocean, was ...
Man finds two-headed dolphin washed ashore in Turkey
Aug 11, 2014 (UPI)
A beached dolphin with two heads was discovered by a man in Turkey over the weekend. The strange creature was found by Tugrul Metin, a 39-year-old gym teacher, ...
Crisis-hit Spaniards seek seaweed riches
Aug 10, 2014 (AFP)
Three young Spaniards in wetsuits plunge into the sea to harvest a culinary delicacy that promises them a way out of troubled financial waters: seaweed. Armed w...
Toxic red tide nears Florida coast
Aug 08, 2014 (UPI)
A toxic red tide continues to bloom and expand in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico as it nears the coast of South Florida. Officials say the maroon-tinged algae...
Ocean's most oxygen-deprived zones to shrink under climate change
Aug 08, 2014 (SPX)
As the complex story of climate change unfolds, many of the endings are grim. But there are exceptions. Predictions that the lowest-oxygen environments in the o...
Tuvalu family cites global warming on accepted refugee application
Aug 07, 2014 (UPI)
On a refugee application recently accepted by New Zealand, a Tuvalu family claimed they'd be forced out by global warming if they returned home. It's the first ...
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