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Judge scraps Amazon dam hearing
Oct 14, 2012 (AFP)
A federal judge has suspended a planned hearing for fishermen and indigenous people occupying a disputed dam in Brazil's Amazon after they failed to vacate the ...
Brazil activists, energy group to meet over Amazon dam
Oct 12, 2012 (AFP)
Fishermen and indigenous people occupying a disputed dam in Brazil's Amazon are due to argue before a federal judge Monday their claim that the project harms th...
Freshwater Flows Into the Arctic and Southern Oceans Appear to Determine the Composition of Microbial Populations
Oct 12, 2012 (SPX)
Differing contributions of freshwater from glaciers and streams to the Arctic and Southern oceans appear to be responsible for the fact that the majority of mic...
Fisheries benefit from 400-year-old tradition
Oct 12, 2012 (SPX)
A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and James Cook University says that coral reefs in Aceh, Indonesia are benefiting from a decidedly low-tech, tr...
A new cave-dwelling reef coral discovered in the Indo-Pacific
Oct 11, 2012 (SPX)
Coral specialist Dr. Bert W. Hoeksema of Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, The Netherlands, recently published the description of a new coral species tha...
Small fish can play a big role in the coastal carbon cycle
Oct 11, 2012 (SPX)
A study in this week's issue of Scientific Reports, a new online journal from the Nature Publishing Group, shows that small forage fish like anchovies can play ...
Costa Rica tightens ban on shark fins
Oct 11, 2012 (AFP)
Costa Rica has banned the import of shark fins, closing a legal loophole and targeting a link in a global production chain stretching to Asian markets, where sh...
Southern Hemisphere becoming drier
Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)
A decline in April-May rainfall over south-east Australia is associated with a southward expansion of the subtropical dry-zone according to research published i...
River Thames invaded with foreign species
Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)
Almost 100 freshwater species not native to the UK have invaded the River Thames catchment making it one of the most highly invaded freshwater systems in the wo...
Brazil sets up special security force to protect Amazon
Oct 10, 2012 (AFP)
Brazil said Wednesday it was setting up a special environmental security force to combat soaring illegal deforestation in the Amazon region. Environment Ministe...
EU lays out 'blue economy' agenda
Oct 10, 2012 (UPI)
The European Union this week adopted a new "blue economy" agenda aimed at creating jobs in ocean renewable energy and other maritime sectors. The European Commi...
Freezing water droplets form sharp ice peaks
Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Twente, in the Netherlands, placed water droplets on a plate chilled to -20 degrees Celsius and captured images as a freezing f...
Brazil activists occupy controversial Amazon dam
Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)
More than 150 fishermen and indigenous natives occupied Brazil's Belo Monte dam on Tuesday, claiming the project will do irreparable damage to the Amazon ecosys...
Australia scientists tackle reef-killing starfish
Oct 08, 2012 (AFP)
An Australian research team said Monday they have found an effective way to kill the destructive crown-of-thorns starfish, which is devastating coral reefs acro...
Venice Lagoon research indicates rapid climate change in coastal regions
Oct 05, 2012 (SPX)
Research undertaken by the University of Southampton and its associates in Venice has revealed that the sea surface temperature (SST) in coastal regions is risi...
New Fish Species Offers Literal Take on 'Hooking Up'
Oct 05, 2012 (SPX)
Fishing hooks aren't the only hooks found in east-central Mexican waters. A new species of freshwater fish described by a North Carolina State University resear...
The water flow of the Amazon River in a natural climate archive
Oct 05, 2012 (SPX)
Oxygen isotopes in tree rings are an excellent archive of precipitation dynamics in the tropical Amazon region. The precise determination of the ratios of stabl...
Sea-level study shows signs of things to come
Oct 05, 2012 (SPX)
Our greenhouse gas emissions up to now have triggered an irreversible warming of the Earth that will cause sea-levels to rise for thousands of years to come, ne...
Tree rings go with the flow of the Amazon
Oct 05, 2012 (SPX)
Tree rings go with the flow of the Amazon University of Leeds-led research has used tree rings from eight cedar trees in Bolivia to unlock a 100-year history of...
The chemical memory of seawater
Oct 04, 2012 (SPX)
Water does not forget, says Prof. Boris Koch, a chemist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association. Irrespective...
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