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Brazil state bank to invest $11 billion in Amazon dam
Nov 26, 2012 (AFP)
Brazil's state-run development bank BNDES said Monday it had approved $11.25 billion in loans to finance construction of the controversial Belo Monte mega-dam i...
Processes and Misconceptions Concerning the Effects of Groundwater Pumping on Streamflow
Nov 23, 2012 (SPX)
Groundwater provides drinking water for millions of Americans and is the primary source of water to irrigate cropland in many of the nations most productive agr...
Need to filter water? Fight infection? Just open package, mix polymers
Nov 23, 2012 (SPX)
Working in the lab for the last few years, three generations of University of Akron polymer scientists say their mutual and passionate curiosity about science h...
China facing looming water shortages
Nov 23, 2012 (UPI)
China is one of 13 countries with extreme water shortages and the situation is made worse by widespread water pollution, experts say. With 20 percent of the wor...
Warming to shift heavy rainfall patterns in the UK
Nov 23, 2012 (SPX)
It appears that it's not just us Brits who are fascinated with the UK weather. A group of researchers from Germany has taken to investigating the potential chan...
Researchers identify a simple way to precipitate phosphorus from the wastewater of a pulp mill
Nov 23, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers at Aalto University have developed a simple method for reducing the amount of phosphorus in the wastewater of a pulp mill. The method is called simu...
El Nino unlikely to hit by year-end: UN weather agency
Nov 22, 2012 (AFP)
There is little chance the potentially devastating El Nino weather phenomenon will return before the end of the year, the UN's weather agency said Thursday. "Mo...
At least one-third of marine species remain undescribed
Nov 22, 2012 (SPX)
At least one-third of the species that inhabit the world's oceans may remain completely unknown to science. That's despite the fact that more species have been ...
Australia approves plan to save vital river system
Nov 22, 2012 (AFP)
Australia approved an "historic" plan Thursday to save an ailing river system vital to the nation's food bowl by returning the equivalent of five Sydney Harbour...
EU finally ends shark finning
Nov 22, 2012 (AFP)
The European parliament on Thursday called a definitive halt to shark finning, the long contested practice of fishermen slicing off fins and throwing the live b...
Streams Show Signs of Degradation at Earliest Stages of Urban Development
Nov 20, 2012 (SPX)
The loss of sensitive species in streams begins to occur at the initial stages of urban development, according to a new study by the USGS. The study found that ...
Water tensions overflow in ex-Soviet Central Asia
Nov 20, 2012 (AFP)
The ex-Soviet states of Central Asia are engaged in an increasingly bitter standoff over water resources, adding another element of instability to the volatile ...
Atlantic bluefin tuna catch to rise slightly
Nov 19, 2012 (AFP)
Annual catches of Atlantic bluefin tuna will rise slightly from next year, environmental groups said Monday at a meeting of countries that hunt the much-prized ...
Australia imposes two-year ban on supertrawlers
Nov 19, 2012 (AFP)
Australia banned supertrawlers fishing in its southern waters for two years on Monday, saying there was uncertainty about the impact of such large vessels on sp...
Japan high-tech toilet maker eyes global throne
Nov 19, 2012 (AFP)
They are found in more than two-thirds of Japanese households and visitors to the country have marvelled at their heated seats, posterior shower jets and odour-...
Pacific fishing zones - lifeline for overfished tuna?
Nov 18, 2012 (SPX)
Marine zoning in the Pacific Ocean, in combination with other measures, could significantly improve numbers of heavily overfished bigeye tuna and improve local ...
Australia creates world's largest marine reserves
Nov 16, 2012 (AFP)
Australia Friday created the world's largest network of marine reserves, protecting a huge swathe of ocean environment despite claims it will devastate the fish...
Greenpeace catches 'black market' fish
Nov 15, 2012 (AFP)
Fishing vessels registered in the Philippines, Indonesia and Cambodia have been filmed "laundering" illegally caught tuna, environment activist group Greenpeace...
Corals attacked by toxic seaweed use chemical 911 signals to summon help
Nov 15, 2012 (SPX)
Corals under attack by toxic seaweed do what anyone might do when threatened - they call for help. A study reported this week in the journal Science shows that ...
Tropical Indo-Pacific climate shifts to a more El Nino-like state
Nov 15, 2012 (SPX)
The Walker circulation determines much of the tropical Indo-Pacific climate and has a global impact as seen in the floods and droughts spawned by the El Nino-So...
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