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Ethiopia endorses Nile share deal, amid row with Egypt
Jun 13, 2013 (AFP)
Ethiopia's parliament ratified a controversial treaty Thursday ensuring its access to Nile water resources, amid bitter arguments with Egypt trigged by an Ethio...
Drought, river fragmentation forcing endangered fish out of water
Jun 13, 2013 (SPX)
A Kansas State University researcher is discovering that the North American drought has caused dramatic changes in native fish communities. "A couple of key spe...
China submersible sets out on 110-day mission
Jun 13, 2013 (UPI)
The Jiaolong, China's submersible watercraft, has left port for a deep-sea mission that includes first-ever diving events, science officials said Thursday. The ...
Researchers discover a new way fish camouflage themselves in the ocean
Jun 13, 2013 (SPX)
Fish can hide in the open ocean by manipulating how light reflects off their skin, according to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin. The discovery ...
AU urges Egypt and Ethiopia to hold talks on Nile row
Jun 12, 2013 (AFP)
The African Union urged Egypt and Ethiopia Wednesday to come together for talks to solve a bitter dispute over the sharing of Nile river waters triggered by an ...
'All options' open to Egypt over Ethiopia dam: Morsi
Jun 11, 2013 (AFP)
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has warned that "all options are open" in confronting an Ethiopian project to build a dam on the Blue Nile, which may diminish...
Chagos Islanders lose UK marine park challenge
Jun 11, 2013 (AFP)
Exiled Indian Ocean islanders on Tuesday lost a British court challenge launched to prevent Britain from setting up a marine park they suspect is aimed at stopp...
Study reveals leakage of carbon from land to rivers, lakes, estuaries and coastal regions
Jun 11, 2013 (SPX)
When carbon is emitted by human activities into the atmosphere it is generally thought that about half remains in the atmosphere and the remainder is stored in ...
Egypt's Nile crisis and the Dam Busters
Jun 11, 2013 (UPI)
Tension between Egypt and Ethiopia has risen sharply after Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil warned Addis Ababa not to build a massive dam on the Blue Nile ...
Egypt eyes Nile deal with Ethiopia
Jun 11, 2013 (AFP)
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is facing heavy pressure to secure a negotiated settlement to a bitter dispute with Ethiopia over the sharing of Nile waters. T...
Unfrozen mystery: H2O reveals a new secret
Jun 11, 2013 (SPX)
Using revolutionary new techniques, a team led by Carnegie's Malcolm Guthrie has made a striking discovery about how ice behaves under pressure, changing ideas ...
Egypt FM to Ethiopia for 'life or death' water talks
Jun 10, 2013 (AFP)
Egypt's foreign minister is to hold talks in Addis Ababa on Ethiopia's plan to build a Nile dam that has stirred "life or death" concerns over water resources, ...
Rutgers findings may predict the future of coral reefs in a changing world
Jun 10, 2013 (SPX)
Rutgers scientists have described for the first time the biological process of how corals create their skeletons - destined to become limestones - which form ma...
40 dead as monsoon lashes Sri Lanka
Jun 10, 2013 (AFP)
Naval boats and helicopters scoured seas off Sri Lanka on Monday for dozens of missing fishermen, as the death toll from heavy monsoon rains and strong winds ro...
Scientists say 9-foot great white shark was eaten by a colossal shark
Jun 09, 2013 (UPI)
It is the stuff of Hollywood horror films. Not long after Australian marine biologists tagged several great white sharks, they found one of the tracking devices...
Alpine lakes reflect climate change
Jun 07, 2013 (SPX)
Increases in temperature as a result of climate change are mirrored in lake waters where temperatures are also on the rise. A new study, by Dr. Martin Dokulil, ...
Egypt ups the ante on Nile dispute with Ethiopia
Jun 06, 2013 (UPI)
Egypt's dispute with Ethiopia over the Nile River has gotten sharper with calls by political leaders for direct action to stop Addis Ababa from building a massi...
Australian lake untouched by climate change
Jun 06, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Adelaide have found that a lake on an island off the coast of Queensland, Australia, has been relatively untouched by changes i...
EU closes shark finning loophole
Jun 06, 2013 (AFP)
The European Union on Thursday closed a last loophole in its ban on shark finning, the long-contested practice of fisherman slicing the fins off and then throwi...
Acidifying oceans could spell trouble for squid
Jun 06, 2013 (SPX)
Acidifying oceans could dramatically impact the world's squid species, according to a new study led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) researchers a...
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