WATER WORLD

News About The Oceans of Earth

6,978 articles

Scientists tell Australia to save Great Barrier Reef
Jun 05, 2013 (AFP)
Leading marine scientists warned the Australian government on Wednesday of the growing threat to the Great Barrier Reef from unchecked industrial development. M...
Egypt warns 'all options open' on Ethiopia dam
Jun 05, 2013 (AFP)
Egypt will demand that Ethiopia stop construction of a Nile river dam and warned "all options are open" if it harms its water supply, advisers to President Moha...
Climate change threatens extinction for 82 percent of California native fish
Jun 04, 2013 (SPX)
Salmon and other native freshwater fish in California will likely become extinct within the next century due to climate change if current trends continue, cedin...
Surge of jellyfish hitting coastlines around Mediterranean Sea
Jun 04, 2013 (UPI)
An explosion of jellyfish in the Mediterranean threatens both the sea's biodiversity and the health of tens of thousands of summer tourists, scientists warn. Gl...
Sharks worth more in the ocean than on the menu
Jun 04, 2013 (SPX)
Sharks are worth more in the ocean than in a bowl of soup, according to researchers from the University of British Columbia. A new study, published in Oryx - Th...
U.S. leases federal offshore area to Florida Atlantic University to test ocean energy
Jun 04, 2013 (UPI)
The U.S. government announced plans to work with Florida Atlantic University to test a system to get energy from ocean currents, the first of its kind. The Bure...
Is enough being done to make drinking water safe
Jun 04, 2013 (SPX)
There is a lack of evidence regarding the effectiveness of technologies used to reduce arsenic contamination finds research in BioMed Central's open access jour...
To save corals, save the forests: study
Jun 04, 2013 (AFP)
Conservationists fighting to save coastal coral reefs should think first about combatting local deforestation rather than attacking the wider peril of global wa...
Catastrophic climatic events leave corals facing a decade-long fight for recovery
Jun 04, 2013 (SPX)
Marine conservationists from Plymouth University, and the Universidad Federal da Bahia in Brazil, have spent more than 17 years analysing the diversity and dens...
British water firm Severn Trent rejects new 5bn pounds bid
Jun 03, 2013 (AFP)
British water supplier Severn Trent said Monday it had rejected an improved takeover bid of about 5.0 billion pounds from a consortium including Canadian and Ku...
Research Maps Sea-level Change Along New Jersey Coast
Jun 02, 2013 (SPX)
Hurricane Sandy caught the public and policymakers off guard when it hit the United States' Atlantic Coast last fall. Because much of the storm's devastation wa...
Monsoon rains arrive in India, bring cheer to farmers
Jun 01, 2013 (AFP)
The annual monsoon, crucial to India's food output and economic growth, hit the southwest coast on Saturday, bringing cheer to farmers and boosting hopes for th...
Starfish threatens famed Philippine coral reefs
May 31, 2013 (AFP)
A coral-killing starfish has begun infesting a channel of water in the Philippines famed for having some of the most diverse marine life in the world, the gover...
A decade on, Three Gorges leads China's dam growth
May 31, 2013 (AFP)
A decade after China began filling the world's largest dam -- The Three Gorges -- concerns about the project's environmental and human cost endure even as the c...
Ethiopia boosts Nile water dispute with Egypt
May 30, 2013 (UPI)
Ethiopia has begun diverting the Blue Nile to build a giant hydroelectric dam, cutting the flow of water to Egypt, Sudan and other downstream states and raising...
EU officials, lawmakers thrash out fisheries reform
May 30, 2013 (AFP)
EU officials and European lawmakers finally agreed a fisheries reform package on Thursday, winning a guarded welcome from green groups with a commitment to prot...
Dealing with 'crap' to improve water quality
May 29, 2013 (SPX)
To better understand how bacteria impact the environment a former University of California, Riverside graduate student spent nearly a year building a system tha...
Small dams on Chinese river harm environment more than expected
May 29, 2013 (SPX)
A fresh look at the environmental impacts of dams on an ecologically diverse and partially protected river in China found that small dams can pose a greater thr...
Satellite imagery shows drought-ridden Lake Powell at half capacity
May 26, 2013 (UPI)
Diminished by overzealous water withdrawals and a lengthy drought throughout the Southwest, Lake Powell, the meandering mass of water held by Glen Canyon dam, h...
Spain and France agree on fishing quota swap
May 25, 2013 (AFP)
Spain and France have reached an agreement on swapping fishing quotas which will allow for Spain to fish more hake and monkfish, authorities said Saturday. "We ...
Buy Advertising About Us Editorial & Other Enquiries Privacy statement
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.