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Huge strides in global water and sanitation: UN
May 08, 2014 (AFP)
Global access to safer drinking water and decent sanitation has hugely improved over the past two decades but the world's poorest often remain sidelined, the UN...
The Red Sea - An Ocean Like All Others, After All
May 08, 2014 (SPX)
Actually, the Red Sea is an ideal study object for marine geologists. There they can observe the formation of an ocean in its early phase. However, the Red Sea ...
Caracas to begin four months of water rationing
May 06, 2014 (AFP)
Water use in Caracas will be rationed for at least four months due to drought, authorities said Tuesday, as Venezuela grapples with shortages of basic goods whi...
Nature's chemical diversity reflected in Swedish lakes
May 05, 2014 (SPX)
It's not only the biology of lakes that varies with the climate and other environmental factors, it's also their chemistry. More knowledge about this is needed ...
Study in 'Science' finds missing piece of biogeochemical puzzle in aquifers
May 02, 2014 (SPX)
A study published in Science by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory may dramatically shift our understanding of the com...
Cadiz researcher discovers 18 new species of molluscs
May 02, 2014 (SPX)
Molluscs are invertebrates that make up one of the most numerous groups in the animal kingdom. They are everywhere, from great heights of over 3,000m above sea ...
Sustainable barnacle-repelling paint
May 02, 2014 (SPX)
Barnacles might seem like a given part of a seasoned ship's hull, but they're literally quite a drag and cause a ship to burn more fuel. To prevent these and ot...
European seafloor survey reveals depth of marine litter problem
May 02, 2014 (SPX)
A major new survey of the seafloor has found that even in the deepest ocean depths you can find bottles, plastic bags, fishing nets and other types of human lit...
NASA Begins Field Campaign to Measure Rain in Southern Appalachians
May 02, 2014 (SPX)
The Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology Experiment (IPHEx) is a ground validation field campaign that will take place in the southern Appalachian Mountains i...
Acidity Dissolving Shells Of Tiny Free-Swimming Marine Snails
May 02, 2014 (SPX)
NOAA-led research team has found the first evidence that acidity of continental shelf waters off the West Coast is dissolving the shells of tiny free-swimming m...
Probing the Depths of the Methane World
May 01, 2014 (SPX)
In 2011, Jennifer Glass joined a scientific cruise to study a methane seep off of Oregon's coast. In these cold, dark depths, microbes buried in the sediment fe...
More coral babies staying at home on future reefs
May 01, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers have found that increasing ocean temperatures due to climate change will soon see reefs retaining and nurturing more of their own coral larvae, leav...
OCULLAR Sees Ocean Color Day and Night
May 01, 2014 (SPX)
A team led at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has developed an instrument capable of observing ocean color during normal sunlight conditio...
Octillions of microbes in the seas: Ocean microbes show incredible genetic diversity
May 01, 2014 (SPX)
The smallest, most abundant marine microbe, Prochlorococcus, is a photosynthetic bacterial species essential to the marine ecosystem. It's estimated that billio...
Extremes in wet, dry spells increasing for South Asian monsoons
May 01, 2014 (SPX)
Stanford scientists have identified significant changes in the patterns of extreme wet and dry events that are increasing the risk of drought and flood in centr...
Relentless rains drench US East Coast
May 01, 2014 (AFP)
Streets collapsed and flights were delayed as heavy rains lashed the US East Coast as far south as usually sunny Florida Wednesday, after tornadoes ripped throu...
Guilty: Crabs are killing N.E. saltmarshes
May 01, 2014 (SPX)
A marathon summer of field work by Mark Bertness, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and a squadron of students may finally help settle the heated d...
Scientists pack lab into pill using idea inspired by breath-freshening strips
Apr 30, 2014 (SPX)
Inspiration can come in many forms, but this one truly was a breath of fresh air. A group of McMaster researchers has solved the problem of cumbersome, expensiv...
Microscopic Organism Plays a Big Role in Ocean Carbon Cycling
Apr 30, 2014 (SPX)
It's broadly understood that the world's oceans play a crucial role in the global-scale cycling and exchange of carbon between Earth's ecosystems and atmosphere...
Hydro-power plants partly blamed for deadly India floods: study
Apr 30, 2014 (AFP)
Hydropower projects in northern India were partly to blame for devastating floods last year that killed thousands, a government report has concluded, in a warni...
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