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Indonesian island hopes to spark green power revolution
May 18, 2014 (AFP)
An Indonesian family of farmers eat cobs of corn outside their hut under the glow of a light bulb, as the women weave and young men play with mobile phones. Unt...
Ban condemns water cuts in Syria's Aleppo
May 16, 2014 (AFP)
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned rebels Friday for cutting water supplies to the besieged northern Syrian city of Aleppo, calling for serv...
Novel ORNL technique enables air-stable water droplet networks
May 16, 2014 (SPX)
A simple new technique to form interlocking beads of water in ambient conditions could prove valuable for applications in biological sensing, membrane research ...
Ocean winds keep Antarctica cold, Australia dry
May 16, 2014 (SPX)
Australian National University-led research has explained why Antarctica is not warming as much as other continents, and why southern Australia is recording mor...
The Role of the 'Silent Killer' inside Deep-diving Animals
May 16, 2014 (SPX)
With its imperceptible features, carbon monoxide is widely known as the "silent killer" due to its risks at lethal concentrations. Far less known is that carbon...
The physics of ocean undertow
May 15, 2014 (SPX)
People standing on a beach often feel the water tugging the sand away from under their feet. This is the undertow, the current that pulls water back into the oc...
MH370 search on hold after trouble with mini-sub
May 15, 2014 (AFP)
The hunt for the missing Malaysian passenger jet in the Indian Ocean was put on hold Thursday after technical issues with a US Navy mini-submarine that require ...
Coral Reefs are Critical for Risk Reduction and Adaptation
May 15, 2014 (SPX)
Stronger storms, rising seas, and flooding are placing hundreds of millions people at risk around the world, and big part of the solution to decrease those risk...
Eight dead, hundreds ill from 'tainted water' in Philippines
May 14, 2014 (AFP)
Health officials are testing for cholera and other diseases after eight people died and hundreds more fell ill in a remote area in the Philippines, possibly fro...
EU proposes complete ban on drift-net fishing
May 14, 2014 (AFP)
The European Union said Wednesday it wants a complete ban by 2015 on drift-net fishing, dubbed by environmentalists as 'walls of death' for killing other marine...
Imploding sub a 'tragic loss': Titanic director
May 13, 2014 (AFP)
Hollywood director James Cameron Tuesday mourned a "tragic loss" after a deep sea research vessel imploded nearly 10 kilometres (six miles) beneath the surface ...
Reefs cheaper than concrete to protect coast cities
May 13, 2014 (AFP)
Coral reefs are as good as concrete defences at protecting tropical coastal cities from rising seas but are far cheaper, scientists said in a study published on...
Fishermen condemn European feeding frenzy in Senegal
May 13, 2014 (AFP)
For years European trawlers have plied Senegal's abundant waters without permission, removing thousands of tonnes of fish without contributing a dollar to the l...
Back to the future to determine if sea level rise is accelerating
May 13, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists have developed a new method for revealing how sea levels might rise around the world throughout the 21st century to address the controversial topic o...
Phytoplankton and zooplankton biomass are expected to decrease
May 09, 2014 (SPX)
It is estimated that ocean temperature warming will cause phytoplankton and zooplankton biomass to decrease by 6% and 11% respectively by the end of the century...
$200 Bird Scaring Line for Trawlers Can Cut Albatross Deaths by over 90%
May 09, 2014 (SPX)
The sight of seabirds following trawlers in order to feast from discarded fish is a common maritime sight, but each year many thousands of seabirds are killed b...
Native algae species to blame for 'rock snot' blooms in rivers worldwide
May 09, 2014 (SPX)
The recent blooms of the freshwater algae known as "rock snot" on river bottoms worldwide are caused by a native species responding to changing environmental co...
First-ever study describes deep-sea animal communities on and around a sunken shipping container
May 09, 2014 (SPX)
Thousands of shipping containers are lost from cargo vessels each year. Many of these containers eventually sink to the deep seafloor. In 2004, scientists at th...
New order of marine creatures discovered among sea anemones
May 09, 2014 (SPX)
A deep-water creature once thought to be one of the world's largest sea anemones, with tentacles reaching more than 6.5 feet long, actually belongs to a new ord...
Space brings fresh water to Morocco
May 08, 2014 (ESA)
Recycling waste water and urine into drinking water is not only for astronauts - the same method is now treating groundwater for a school in Morocco. The villag...
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