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Jellyfish suggest blooms are a consequence of periodic global fluctuations
Jan 04, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have cast doubt on the widely held perception that there has been a global increase in jellyfish. Blooms, or proliferations, of jellyfish can show a ...
Outrage over Hong Kong's 'shark fin rooftop'
Jan 03, 2013 (AFP)
Hong Kong conservationists expressed outrage Thursday after images emerged of a factory rooftop covered in thousands of freshly sliced shark fins, as they calle...
US town bans bottled water
Jan 02, 2013 (AFP)
Water, water everywhere -- just not in plastic bottles, says a town in the US state of Massachusetts. A law passed by the town of Concord went into effect with ...
Estonia's lake-maker lives his dream
Jan 01, 2013 (AFP)
It started as a whim, but snowballed into a life-long passion. Estonian Tonu Tamm has dedicated the past two decades of his life to his obsession of creating ar...
Hope for polluted lagoon near Rio Olympic village?
Dec 30, 2012 (AFP)
Near Rio's future 2016 Olympic village the Marapendi lagoon emits a foul stench from waters that have been turned into a cesspool by unfiltered sewage from surr...
Smaller Colorado River projected for coming decades
Dec 27, 2012 (SPX)
Some 40 million people depend on the Colorado River Basin for water but warmer weather from rising greenhouse gas levels and a growing population may signal wat...
China's boom savages coral reefs: study
Dec 27, 2012 (AFP)
China's economic boom has seen its coral reefs shrink by at least 80 percent over the past 30 years, a joint Australian study found Thursday, with researchers d...
Spanish consumers prefer national fish
Dec 24, 2012 (SPX)
What is most important when buying fish: the price, the country of origin, whether it is fresh or frozen or whether it is wild or farm-raised? The average Spani...
Study reveals that animals contribute to seagrass dispersal
Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)
Look out the window and you're likely to see the dispersal of seeds-dandelion tufts in the wind, a squirrel burying an acorn, a robin flying off with a dogwood ...
Slab of Barrier Reef sea floor breaking off: scientists
Dec 21, 2012 (AFP)
A huge slab of sea floor near the Great Barrier Reef is in the early stages of collapse and could generate a tsunami when it finally breaks off, researchers war...
Study: Hawaiian island slowly dissolving
Dec 21, 2012 (UPI)
The mountains on Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands are dissolving from within under the slow but inexorable onslaught of groundwater, researchers say. Sometime in th...
Environmental threat map highlights Great Lakes restoration challenges
Dec 20, 2012 (SPX)
A comprehensive map three years in the making is telling the story of humans' impact on the Great Lakes, identifying how "environmental stressors" stretching fr...
Fishing nations, campaigners split on new EU quotas
Dec 20, 2012 (AFP)
European Union fisheries ministers Thursday struck a deal on 2013 quotas viewed as a "compromise" between efforts to protect endangered stocks while ensuring jo...
EU to fund Djibouti desalination plant
Dec 19, 2012 (AFP)
The European Union said Wednesday it will pay for most of a combined renewable energy and water desalination plant in Djibouti, to supply some 200,000 people, a...
Mapping effort charts restoration tack for Great Lakes
Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)
As the federal government builds on its $1 billion investment to clean up and restore the Great Lakes, an international research consortium has developed innova...
Ireland, Scotland decry EU fish quota cuts
Dec 19, 2012 (UPI)
Ireland and Scotland have warned that cuts called for in EU fishing quotas will mean the loss of hundreds of jobs and sharp increases in discarded fish. The cou...
Investigating ocean currents using uranium-236 from the 1960s
Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)
In the period of atmospheric nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960s significant amounts of uranium-236 were distributed world-wide. Despite this, uranium-236 ha...
Disputed fish quota cuts lead to tough EU talks
Dec 18, 2012 (AFP)
EU fishery ministers began difficult talks Tuesday on the vexed question of 2013 quotas as they sought to balance conflicting demands from environmentalists and...
Will climate change cause water conflict?
Dec 14, 2012 (SPX)
International researchers from 14 institutions met in Nicosia (Cyprus) on the 10th and 11th of December to present and debate the results of studies on water, c...
Russian center to study 'killer' waves
Dec 14, 2012 (UPI)
Russia says it has opened a research center dedicated to the study of "killer waves" that can threaten large cargo ships, ocean liners and oil platforms. The da...
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