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NGOs urge RIO+20 to back new treaty on oceans protection
Jun 17, 2012 (AFP)
Non-governmental organizations on Sunday called on RIO+20 summit leaders to back a new treaty to protect the high seas. "A new Treaty for High Seas protection w...
Microbial communities shifted dramatically after Deepwater Horizon spill
Jun 15, 2012 (SPX)
Communities of microbial organisms - species such as nematodes, protists and fungi - on beaches along the Gulf of Mexico changed significantly following the Dee...
Natives occupy Amazon dam construction site
Jun 15, 2012 (AFP)
Around 300 indigenous and green activists occupied Friday the construction site of a huge hydro-electric dam across the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon, ...
India's capital in water crisis after supplies cut
Jun 15, 2012 (AFP)
Large parts of New Delhi were struggling with acute water shortages on Friday after a neighbouring state cut its supplies at the peak of summer, officials said....
Work begins on China-backed hydroelectric dam in Cameroon
Jun 15, 2012 (AFP)
Cameroon's President Paul Biya on Friday launched the official start of work on a Chinese-backed hydroelectric dam expected to become operational by 2017. The 2...
Water pacts re-examined amid Arab Spring
Jun 14, 2012 (UPI)
Amid the profound political changes sweeping the Arab world, there are moves to rewrite contentious water-sharing agreements that are becoming a major source of...
Please stop Xingu dam, Amazonian Indians plead at summit
Jun 14, 2012 (AFP)
Amazonian chief Raoni on Thursday implored the UN environment summit here to halt a $13-billion dam being built in one of the world's last bastions of wildlife....
The downstream consequences of depleting groundwater
Jun 14, 2012 (SPX)
Hard lessons from around the American West and Australia could help improve groundwater management and protect ecosystems in California, Stanford University res...
Australia to create world's largest marine parks
Jun 14, 2012 (AFP)
Australia on Thursday announced plans to create the world's largest network of marine parks to protect ocean life, with limits placed on fishing and oil and gas...
Experts lament poor ocean progress in 20 years
Jun 14, 2012 (AFP)
World governments have made little progress in the past 20 years when it comes to their pledges to protect marine life and reduce overfishing, experts said on T...
Australia to create world's largest marine reserves
Jun 14, 2012 (AFP)
Australia on Thursday announced it will create the world's largest network of marine sanctuaries, with limits placed on fishing, oil and gas exploration off the...
Rio summit exposes grim Guanabara Bay
Jun 13, 2012 (AFP)
At the 1992 Earth Summit a grand plan was drawn up to tackle pollution in Rio's Guanabara Bay, but 20 years on the once-pristine fishing ground is a cesspool of...
Scientists correct Amazon water level gauges from space
Jun 13, 2012 (SPX)
NASA's laser satellite, ICESat, has been used to make corrections to water level gauges that are critical in monitoring water flow in the Amazon, the world's la...
Environmentalists fear EU will fail to save its fish
Jun 12, 2012 (AFP)
The European Union, the world's third fishing power, came under sharp pressure from green groups and the EU executive to save the oceans from overfishing at key...
EU fish compromise to see discard ban -- by 2019
Jun 12, 2012 (AFP)
After 20 hours of talks into the wee hours Wednesday, Europe's fisheries ministers struck a compromise deal to save the oceans from overfishing, but failed to s...
China submersible to plumb new ocean depths
Jun 11, 2012 (AFP)
A Chinese submersible is poised to attempt the country's deepest-ever manned dive, state media said Monday, as Beijing seeks to reach another technological mile...
Geoengineering could disrupt rainfall patterns
Jun 11, 2012 (SPX)
A geoengineering solution to climate change could lead to significant rainfall reduction in Europe and North America, a team of European scientists concludes. T...
Sea temperatures less sensitive to CO2 13 million years ago
Jun 11, 2012 (SPX)
In the modern global climate, higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere are associated with rising ocean temperatures. But the seas were not alway...
Kenya's fragile Lake Turkana threatened by Ethiopian dam
Jun 08, 2012 (AFP)
The fishermen and herders eking out an existence on the shores of the majestic Lake Turkana risk having their way of life destroyed by a giant dam under constru...
No sea change for European fishing
Jun 08, 2012 (AFP)
An ambitious reform of Europe's fishing sector to help replenish shrinking fish stocks appears likely to be watered down substantially by European Union nations...
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