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Study compares merits of plans to deal with invasive Asian carp
Jan 30, 2013 (UPI)
Scientists say they've finished a study of the effectiveness of different prevention barriers meant to keep invasive Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes. T...
How the purple and pink sunscreens of reef corals work
Jan 29, 2013 (SPX)
New research by the University of Southampton has found a mechanism as to how corals use their pink and purple hues as sunscreen to protect them against harmful...
Biologists alarmed as data confirm corals decline
Jan 29, 2013 (AFP)
Coral reefs in the Caribbean are producing less than half of the key ingredient that makes their calcium skeleton compared to pre-industrial times, scientists s...
Old drainage ditches sleeping threat to Cape Cod salt marshes
Jan 29, 2013 (SPX)
CAPE Cod, Massachusetts has a problem. The iconic salt marshes of the famous summer retreat are melting away at the edges, dying back from the most popular recr...
US backs adding teeth to global shark protection
Jan 25, 2013 (AFP)
The United States said Friday it would support proposals to curb the trade of five shark species and manta rays, whose numbers are declining because of demand f...
Melting glaciers threaten water resources
Jan 24, 2013 (UPI)
Melting glaciers in Latin America's southern Andean range expose the region to risk of future water shortages, new data indicated. A new study in The Cryosphere...
Water restored in Chile capital after day-long cut
Jan 23, 2013 (AFP)
Water has been restored in Chile's capital Santiago after a 24-hour pollution-related outage that affected more than two million people, the water utility said ...
Cotton with special coating collects water from fogs in desert
Jan 23, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) together with researchers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), have developed a special tre...
Antibacterial agent used in common soaps found in increasing amounts in freshwater lakes
Jan 23, 2013 (SPX)
When people wash their hands with antibacterial soap, most don't think about where the chemicals contained in that soap end up. University of Minnesota engineer...
Australia's drinking water at risk from extreme weather events
Jan 22, 2013 (UPI)
Australia's drinking water is at risk from extreme weather, a new study says. The study, commissioned by the United States-based Water Research Foundation, says...
Water shut off to Chilean capital: official
Jan 22, 2013 (AFP)
More than two million people in the Chilean capital were without drinking water Tuesday because of contamination in a river that supplies the city with water, o...
Slowing of Atlantic currents could bring changes in Europe's climate
Jan 21, 2013 (UPI)
Major currents in the North Atlantic Ocean seem to be slowing down, British researchers say, which could have major impacts on weather in the United Kingdom. A ...
Rare dolphin species threatened by big fishnets
Jan 18, 2013 (AFP)
The long-beaked La Plata River dolphin, a small species living in in South America's Atlantic coastal waters, is increasingly threatened with extinction from bi...
Audit slams S. Korea's $20 bn river project
Jan 18, 2013 (AFP)
South Korea's state auditor on Friday panned President Lee Myung-Bak's $20 billion effort to dredge, dam and beautify four major rivers, saying it was riddled w...
New UMass Amherst Research Shows Fishways Have Not Helped Fish
Jan 18, 2013 (SPX)
Despite modern designs intended to allow migratory fish to pass, hydropower dams on major Northeast U.S. waterways, including the Merrimack and Connecticut rive...
Beijing water supply at risk?
Jan 17, 2013 (UPI)
Beijing now publicizes information on the quality of the city's tap water. The decision by Beijing Waterworks Group, which is in charge of the city's water supp...
MBL scientists find 'bipolar' marine bacteria, refuting 'everything is everywhere' idea
Jan 16, 2013 (SPX)
In another blow to the "Everything is Everywhere" tenet of bacterial distribution in the ocean, scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have found ...
Limited water predicted west of the Continental Divide
Jan 16, 2013 (UPI)
A limited water supply is predicted west of the Continental Divide -- west of the Rocky Mountains, the U.S. Department of Agriculture says. In its first forecas...
Hydroelectric dams said source of greenhouse gas methane
Jan 15, 2013 (UPI)
Small hydroelectric dams, despite their "green" reputation, are creating "hotspots" of greenhouse gas emissions, a European researcher says. The large reservoir...
Sri Lanka and India release detained fishermen
Jan 15, 2013 (UPI)
Sri Lanka and India each have released as many as 52 detained fishermen ahead of talks this week on how to solve poaching in territorial waters. Both countries ...
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