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US hosts talks to save oceans under 'siege'
Jun 15, 2014 (AFP)
US Secretary of State John Kerry launches an unprecedented global effort Monday to save the world's oceans under siege from overfishing, climate change and poll...
The link between climate change and ocean currents over 6 million years
Jun 13, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists have discovered a relationship between climate change and ocean currents over the past six million years after analysing an area of the Atlantic near...
New evidence for oceans of water deep in the Earth
Jun 13, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of New Mexico report evidence for potentially oceans worth of water deep beneath the United States. ...
Acidification and warming threaten Mediterranean Sea iconic species
Jun 13, 2014 (SPX)
This is of particular importance to the Mediterranean coastal societies with 300 million inhabitants (living and visiting), unique ecosystems, love of seafood a...
Malawi's prized chambo fish faces extinction
Jun 13, 2014 (AFP)
In the decade that fisherman Edward Njeleza has been trawling the deep, clear waters of Lake Malawi in Africa's Great Rift Valley, he has seen his once abundant...
White Shark Study In Northwest Atlantic Offers Hope For Recovery
Jun 13, 2014 (SPX)
White sharks are among the largest, most widespread apex predators in the ocean, but are also among the most vulnerable. A new study, the most comprehensive eve...
Geologists Confirm Oxygen Levels of Ancient Oceans
Jun 12, 2014 (SPX)
Zunli Lu and Xiaoli Zhou, an assistant professor and Ph.D. student, respectively, in the Department of Earth Sciences, are part of an international team of rese...
Singapore casino stops serving shark fin
Jun 12, 2014 (AFP)
The US-owned Marina Bay Sands casino in Singapore has announced it will stop serving shark fin at its restaurants, the latest boycott of the contentious delicac...
Genetics reveal that reef corals and their algae live together but evolve independently
Jun 12, 2014 (SPX)
New research reveals that Caribbean corals and the algae that inhabit them form a remarkably stable relationship -- new knowledge that can serve as an important...
Australia says pollution falling at Great Barrier Reef
Jun 12, 2014 (AFP)
Australia on Thursday said it was confident the Great Barrier Reef would avoid a World Heritage downgrade after a new report card showed pollutants entering the...
New England lakes recovering rapidly from acid rain
Jun 10, 2014 (SPX)
For more than 40 years, policy makers have been working to reduce acid rain, a serious environmental problem that can devastate lakes, streams, and forests and ...
Australia shark cull could snare more than 900, says report
Jun 10, 2014 (AFP)
Australia's controversial shark cull could snare more than 900 animals over the next three years, a government review found, angering critics who said Tuesday m...
Experts want urgent action on rare N.Zealand 'hobbit' dolphin
Jun 10, 2014 (AFP)
Marine scientists have urged New Zealand to step up efforts to save the world's rarest dolphin, saying only a few dozen Maui's dolphins remain and immediate act...
Chile rejects huge hydroelectric project in Patagonia
Jun 10, 2014 (AFP)
President Michelle Bachelet's government rejected a huge hydroelectric project in Chile's Patagonia region Tuesday, warning it would cause environmental harm. T...
Rising sea levels unearth 'WWII Japan soldiers' in Pacific
Jun 09, 2014 (AFP)
The skeletal remains of what are believed to be Japanese soldiers have been exposed on a remote Pacific island where rising sea levels have eroded the sea shore...
How Do Phytoplankton Survive a Scarcity of a Critical Nutrient?
Jun 09, 2014 (SPX)
Phytoplankton-tiny, photosynthetic organisms-are essential to life on Earth, supplying us with roughly half the oxygen we breathe. Like all other life forms, ph...
One dead in Khartoum protest over water cuts
Jun 08, 2014 (AFP)
One person was killed Sunday in the Sudanese capital as police fired tear gas to disperse a demonstration over water shortages, police and witnesses said. Hundr...
India monsoon advances as heatwave bakes north
Jun 07, 2014 (AFP)
India's monsoon, dubbed an "economic lifeline", advanced along the southern coast Saturday after arriving nearly a week late as a heatwave baked the north, caus...
Conservationists slam port plan for Great Barrier Reef
Jun 06, 2014 (AFP)
An Australian plan to limit future port developments on or near the Great Barrier Reef to five areas was Friday criticised as "business as usual" and "destructi...
Feeding increases coral transplant survival
Jun 05, 2014 (SPX)
Feeding juvenile corals prior to transplantation into a new reef may increase their survival, according to a study published June 4, 2014 in the open-access jou...
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