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Source of life running out: water scientists
May 24, 2013 (AFP)
The majority of people on Earth people will face severe water shortages within a generation or two if pollution and waste continues unabated, scientists warned ...
S. Korea commission to probe $20 bln river project
May 24, 2013 (AFP)
A South Korean government commission will probe a $20 billion effort to dredge, dam and beautify four major rivers that has been tainted by charges of environme...
Why we need to put the fish back into fisheries
May 23, 2013 (SPX)
Overfishing has reduced fish populations and biodiversity across much of the world's oceans. In response, fisheries are increasingly reliant on a handful of hig...
Scientists explore roots of future tropical rainfall
May 22, 2013 (SPX)
How will rainfall patterns across the tropical Indian and Pacific regions change in a future warming world? Climate models generally suggest that the tropics as...
Malaysia tribal groups protest world hydro meeting
May 22, 2013 (AFP)
About 300 Borneo tribespeople staged a protest at a world hydroelectric industry meeting in Malaysia on Wednesday to denounce dams they say are destroying fores...
World's smallest droplets
May 22, 2013 (SPX)
Physicists may have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab. That possibility has been raised by the results of a recent experiment conducted ...
Shifts in global water systems markers of The Anthropocene epoch
May 22, 2013 (SPX)
A suite of disquieting global phenomena have given rise to the "Anthropocene," a term coined for a new geologic epoch characterized by humanity's growing domina...
NGOs denounce Malaysia hydropower meeting
May 21, 2013 (AFP)
Three dozen Malaysian NGOs on Tuesday denounced the world hydroelectric industry's decision to hold a conference in a Borneo state where dam projects have uproo...
Malaysia hydropower meeting to open amid controversy
May 20, 2013 (AFP)
The world hydroelectric industry's decision to meet in a Malaysian state where dams have uprooted rainforests and native peoples is drawing bitter fire from env...
New Stanford Nanoscavengers Could Usher In Next Generation Water Purification
May 20, 2013 (SPX)
Among its many talents, silver is an antibiotic. Titanium dioxide is known to glom on to certain heavy metals and pollutants. Other materials do the same for sa...
Asia-Pacific leaders warn of water conflict threat
May 20, 2013 (AFP)
Fierce competition for water could trigger conflict unless nations cooperate to share the diminishing resource, leaders from Asia-Pacific nations warned Monday....
Hydropower frenzy threatens Carpathian mountains: WWF
May 20, 2013 (AFP)
The frenzy to build hydropower stations across the Carpathian mountains poses an "imminent" threat to biodiversity in Eastern Europe, conservationist group WWF ...
LLNL scientist finds topography of Eastern Seaboard muddles ancient sea level changes
May 17, 2013 (SPX)
The distortion of the ancient shoreline and flooding surface of the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain are the direct result of fluctuations in topography in the regio...
Limiting warming could buy some time for tropical coral reefs
May 17, 2013 (SPX)
Limiting the amount of warming experienced by the world's oceans in the future could buy some time for tropical coral reefs, say researchers from the University...
Sea level: One-third of its rise comes from melting mountain glaciers
May 17, 2013 (SPX)
How much all glaciers contribute to global sea-level rise has never been calculated before with this accuracy. An international group of researchers involving t...
'Fish thermometer' reveals long-standing, global impact of climate change
May 17, 2013 (SPX)
Climate change has been impacting global fisheries for the past four decades by driving species towards cooler, deeper waters, according to University of Britis...
Iran's Ahmadinejad to join Thai 'water summit'
May 17, 2013 (AFP)
Iran's firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will address a forum on water security in Thailand next week, an embassy official said on Friday, just weeks befo...
Seabird bones reveal changes in open-ocean food chain
May 16, 2013 (SPX)
Remains of endangered Hawaiian petrels - both ancient and modern - show how drastically today's open seas fish menu has changed. A research team, led by Michiga...
Microbes capture, store, and release nitrogen to feed reef-building coral
May 16, 2013 (SPX)
Microscopic algae that live within reef-forming corals scoop up available nitrogen, store the excess in crystal form, and slowly feed it to the coral as needed,...
Colorado River reaches Sea of Cortez for first time nearly two decades
May 16, 2013 (UPI)
The Colorado River Delta once again features flowing water, as the river and Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez, became reconnected after 16 ye...
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