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China's Three Gorges Dam at full capacity: Xinhua
Jul 04, 2012 (AFP)
The giant and controversial Three Gorges Dam on China's Yangtze River started Wednesday working at full capacity as the last of its 32 generators went into oper...
EU underpays Madagascar for access to fish
Jul 04, 2012 (SPX)
Unfair and exploitative political agreements allow Europeans to eat fish from the plates of developing countries, according to a study led by University of Brit...
India's monsoon seen picking up after slow start
Jun 30, 2012 (AFP)
India's crucial monsoon rains should pick up in July after a slow start over vast swathes of the country, which has threatened crops from rice to sugar, forecas...
Research Vessel Winds Down Visit to Vietnam
Jun 29, 2012 (AFNS)
U.S. scientists and Vietnamese researchers will discuss coastal ocean circulation and land-ocean environmental trends this week as the R/V Roger Revelle, an aux...
Dying trees in Southwest set stage for erosion, water loss in Colorado River
Jun 29, 2012 (SPX)
New research concludes that a one-two punch of drought and mountain pine beetle attacks are the primary forces that have killed more than 2.5 million acres of p...
Saving the Baltic Sea
Jun 29, 2012 (SPX)
Over the last decade, an average of 60,000 km2 of the Baltic Sea bottom has suffered from hypoxia without enough oxygen to support its normal ecosystem. Several...
Businesses push US to ratify Law of the Sea treaty
Jun 28, 2012 (AFP)
American businesses are urging the United States to ratify the UN Law of the Sea Treaty, saying it is needed to boost crucial domestic energy production and end...
Senator expects US to ratify sea treaty
Jun 28, 2012 (AFP)
A veteran US senator said Thursday that he expected the Senate to ratify this year the UN convention on the law of the sea, which supporters say will benefit US...
Greenpeace sabotages Australia-bound super-trawler
Jun 28, 2012 (AFP)
Greenpeace activists sabotaged a fishing super-trawler as it prepared to leave the Netherlands for Australia, the group said Thursday, chaining its propellers a...
Scotland seeks help in 'mackerel war'
Jun 27, 2012 (UPI)
Scotland's fisheries chief says he and his Norwegian counterpart will seek ways to pressure Iceland and the Faroe Islands over "unsustainable" mackerel quotas. ...
US beaches laden with sewage, bacteria: study
Jun 27, 2012 (AFP)
US beaches can be dirty places, making about 3.5 million people sick each year from sewage in the water, said an annual study Wednesday that rates American beac...
Significant sea-level rise in a two degree warming world
Jun 27, 2012 (SPX)
The study is the first to give a comprehensive projection for this long perspective, based on observed sea-level rise over the past millennium, as well as on sc...
High levels of lead found in Indian Ocean
Jun 27, 2012 (UPI)
U.S. researchers say they have discovered high concentrations of lead in the Indian Ocean despite leaded gasoline having been slowly phased out worldwide. While...
Climate change and the South Asian summer monsoon
Jun 27, 2012 (SPX)
The vagaries of South Asian summer monsoon rainfall impact the lives of more than one billion people. A review in Nature Climate Change (June 24 online issue) o...
Risks and rewards of quantifying nature's 'ecosystem services'
Jun 27, 2012 (SPX)
How much is a stream worth? Can we put a dollar value on a wetland? Some conservation proponents have moved to establish the economic value of "ecosystem servic...
Cienega de Santa Clara unchanged after pilot run of Yuma Desalting Plant
Jun 27, 2012 (SPX)
Mexico's Cienega de Santa Clara has not changed since the 2010-11 pilot run of the Yuma Desalting Plant, according to a new report from a University of Arizona-...
Focusing on water for Central Everglades essential to reversing whole ecosystem's continuing decline
Jun 26, 2012 (SPX)
Twelve years into a multibillion-dollar state and federal effort to save the Florida Everglades, little progress has been made in restoring the core of the ecos...
Over 150 natives occupy Amazon dam construction site
Jun 26, 2012 (AFP)
More than 150 indigenous people are occupying one of the construction sites for the huge Belo Monte hydro-electric dam across the Xingu River in the Brazilian A...
Stockholm sees rainiest June on record
Jun 26, 2012 (AFP)
Stockholm has seen record amounts of rain in June, more than four times the normal precipitation, meteorologists said on Tuesday. "Stockholm has registered prec...
Restoring Streams Helps Winter Songbirds
Jun 26, 2012 (SPX)
A new study by PRBO Conservation Science (PRBO) and the National Aviary finds that restoring floodplain forests in the Central Valley of California helps songbi...
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