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Scientists confirm tetrahedral model of the molecular structure of water
Feb 15, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have confirmed the original model of the molecular structure of water and have thus made it possible to...
Water crisis brings threats of Mideast war, terrorism: report
Feb 14, 2013 (UPI)
Satellite data released by the University of California, Irvine, shows the world's water supply is disappearing fast because of agricultural demand, an expandin...
New Zealand dolphin faces extinction, group warns
Feb 14, 2013 (AFP)
Scientists have urged New Zealand to take immediate action to protect the critically endangered Maui's dolphin, amid warnings the marine mammal could become ext...
Balancing Biodiversity And Development In Small Fishing Communities
Feb 13, 2013 (SPX)
Fishing communities living on the islands of Indonesia's Karimunjawa National Park have found an important balance, improving their social well-being while redu...
Purification on the cheap
Feb 12, 2013 (SPX)
Increased natural gas production is seen as a crucial step away from the greenhouse gas emissions of coal plants and toward U.S. energy independence. But natura...
Large water loss detected in Mideast river basins: study
Feb 12, 2013 (AFP)
US satellites have detected a large loss of fresh water reserves in the Tigris and Euphrates river basins during a seven-year period beginning in 2003, a new st...
LSU Professor Discovers How New Corals Species Form in the Ocean
Feb 11, 2013 (SPX)
Since the observations made by English naturalist Charles Darwin on the Galapagos Islands, researchers have been interested in how physical barriers, such as is...
How the world's saltiest pond gets its salt
Feb 11, 2013 (SPX)
Antarctica's Don Juan Pond might be the unlikeliest body of water on Earth. Situated in the frigid McMurdo Dry Valleys, only the pond's high salt content - by f...
New panel to scrutinise ocean governance
Feb 11, 2013 (AFP)
Senior politicians on Monday launched an independent panel into management of the world's oceans, which are facing unprecedented overfishing, pollution and habi...
El Nino forecast increases chances of ending So. California drought
Feb 11, 2013 (UPI)
An El Nino will develop late this year, improving chances Southern California will pull out of a deep drought, a team of scientists is forecasting. In a paper p...
Tortugas marine reserve yields more, larger fish
Feb 08, 2013 (SPX)
A new NOAA research report finds that both fish populations and commercial and recreational anglers have benefited from "no-take" protections in the Tortugas Ec...
Water supplies in war-hit Syria cut by a third: UN
Feb 08, 2013 (AFP)
Syrians living in areas affected by the nearly two-year conflict have seen their water supplies cut by one third, putting children at especially high risk of di...
Pacific Locked in 'La Nada' Limbo
Feb 08, 2013 (JPL)
Sea-surface height data from NASA's Jason-2 satellite show that the equatorial Pacific Ocean is still locked in what some call a neutral, or 'La Nada' state. Th...
Malaysian state scales back Borneo dam plans
Feb 08, 2013 (AFP)
A Malaysian state minister Friday said the government would not push ahead with building a dozen new dams on Borneo island, acknowledging they have caused outra...
Increases in extreme rainfall linked to global warming
Feb 08, 2013 (SPX)
A worldwide review of global rainfall data led by the University of Adelaide has found that the intensity of the most extreme rainfall events is increasing acro...
Battle of the Nile: Egypt, Ethiopia clash over mega-dam
Feb 07, 2013 (UPI)
Egypt and Ethiopia remain at loggerheads over Addis Ababa's plan to build a $4.2 billion, 6,000-megawatt dam on a major tributary of the Nile River that Cairo s...
Study: Fracking, agriculture are on water demand 'collision course'
Feb 07, 2013 (UPI)
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is increasing competitive pressures for water in some of the most water-stressed and drought-ridden U.S. regions, a study ind...
How do corals survive in the hottest reefs on the planet?
Feb 06, 2013 (SPX)
Coral reefs are predicted to decline under the pressure of global warming. However, a number of coral species can survive at seawater temperatures even higher t...
EP to vote on EU fishing policy reforms
Feb 06, 2013 (UPI)
The European Parliament was set to vote on major reforms, including a controversial ban on all fish discards at sea, to the European Union's common fisheries po...
Russia claims record dive but no monster in deep freeze
Feb 06, 2013 (AFP)
Russian explorers claimed a record Wednesday in diving to the bottom of a remote lake at the coldest time of the year but said they could not find its most fame...
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