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Recent decades likely wettest in four millennia in Tibet
Feb 20, 2014 (SPX)
Recent decades may have been the wettest in 3,500 years in North East Tibet - according to climate researchers at the University of East Anglia (UK) and the Chi...
Scientists call for new stewardship of the deep ocean: Earth's last frontier
Feb 19, 2014 (SPX)
The deep ocean, the largest domain for life on earth, is also its least explored environment. Humans are now encroaching more vigorously than ever into the ocea...
Water crisis as drought dries up Malaysian reservoirs
Feb 19, 2014 (AFP)
A Malaysian state declared a water crisis Wednesday over a dry spell that has parched much of the normally rain-bathed country and caused mounting worries over ...
China agrees to export water to Taiwan-controlled islands
Feb 19, 2014 (AFP)
China has agreed to supply water to a Taiwan-controlled island group near the mainland in another sign of fast-warming ties between the two former bitter rivals...
Human resource needs putting deep-water ecosystems in peril
Feb 17, 2014 (AFP)
Relentlessly rising human demand for for deep-sea resources -- fish, gas and oil, rare materials -- is posing such a risk that international cooperation is need...
US drift study backs Marshalls castaway's remarkable tale
Feb 16, 2014 (AFP)
A US study of the prevailing wind and current conditions during the 13 months castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga claimed to be at sea supports his remarkable tale...
Threatened eels disappear in the deep on their way to the Sargasso Sea
Feb 14, 2014 (SPX)
When the threatened European eels cross the Atlantic Ocean to get to the Sargasso Sea to spawn, they swim in deep water. But this does not protect them from pre...
Meeting the eye-witnesses of ocean change
Feb 14, 2014 (SPX)
Members of the German research network BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification) are developing a model that links ecosystem changes triggered by ocea...
Fish living near the equator will not thrive in the warmer oceans of the future
Feb 14, 2014 (SPX)
According to an international team of researchers, the rapid pace of climate change is threatening the future presence of fish near the equator. "Our studies fo...
Fiji leader invites climate-hit Kiribati residents to relocate
Feb 13, 2014 (AFP)
Fiji's president has invited residents of Kiribati to move to his country if rising seas caused by climate change swamp their Pacific homeland, reports said Thu...
Israelis fume over EU parliament president 's water remark
Feb 13, 2014 (AFP)
Israeli newspapers bristled Thursday after the European Parliament president criticised the Gaza Strip blockade and suggested that Israelis received four times ...
Fish biomass in the ocean is 10 times higher than estimated
Feb 12, 2014 (SPX)
With a stock estimated at 1,000 million tons so far, mesopelagic fish dominate the total biomass of fish in the ocean. However, a team of researchers with the p...
California Drought
Feb 12, 2014 (SPX)
California is supposed to be the Golden State. Make that golden brown. The entire west coast of the United States is changing color as the deepest drought in mo...
Link confirmed between salmon migration, magnetic field
Feb 12, 2014 (SPX)
A team of scientists last year presented evidence of a correlation between the migration patterns of ocean salmon and the Earth's magnetic field, suggesting it ...
Sino-Brazilian consortium wins Brazil dam fight
Feb 08, 2014 (AFP)
A group led by China's State Grip Corp. Friday won rights to build power lines to the huge Belo Monte dam in Brazil's Amazon. The IE Belo Monte group, which als...
Water supply availability 'to dominate US natural resource management'
Feb 07, 2014 (SPX)
Water supply is the most pressing environmental issue facing the United States according to a survey of policy makers and scientists revealed in a new publicati...
Ranchers pray for rain in drought-hit California
Feb 06, 2014 (AFP)
Californian rancher Nathan Carver squints as he surveys the parched fields where his family has raised cattle for five generations. Normally, they would be cove...
Mystery giant jellyfish washes up in Australia
Feb 06, 2014 (AFP)
Scientists were Thursday working to classify a new species of giant jellyfish that washed up on an Australian beach, describing it as a "whopper" that took thei...
World Bank still backs DR Congo Inga III hydro project
Feb 05, 2014 (AFP)
The World Bank said Wednesday that it remained in support of the Inga III Congo River hydroelectric project, despite postponing an official board review of fina...
Can workshops on household water use impact consumer behavior?
Feb 05, 2014 (SPX)
In Florida, where population growth, drought, and saltwater intrusion are affecting finite water sources, researchers are looking for effective ways to educate ...
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