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Solomons PM dismisses concerns over China maritime deal
May 12, 2022 (AFP)
The new agreement, a copy of which has been leaked to the media, comes after a controversial security pact was signed last month. The pact sparked alarm in Aust...
International Satellite to Track Impacts of Small Ocean Currents
May 12, 2022 (JPL)
Enter the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission, a joint effort of NASA and French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), with cont...
Exploring the ocean's thin skin
May 12, 2022 (SPX)
To study the complex biological, chemical and physical interactions within this "sea-surface microlayer" is the goal of a new research group led by chemical oce...
Summer heatwave bleaches 91% of Great Barrier Reef: report
May 11, 2022 (AFP)
It was the first time on record the reef had suffered bleaching during a La Nina weather cycle, when cooler temperatures would normally be expected. The Reef Sn...
El Nino nuance: A distinct difference between 1997-98 and 2015-16 extreme seasons
May 10, 2022 (SPX)
The most definitive difference concerns warm SST anomalies in the far eastern Pacific (FEP). During the 2015/16 El Nino, warm SST anomalies in the FEP were rela...
Iran slams Turkey's upstream dam-building activity
May 10, 2022 (AFP)
"Turkey's construction of dams on the border waters is unacceptable and we oppose it," Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was quoted as saying by...
Eleven fishermen missing after Ghana vessel sinks
May 09, 2022 (AFP)
The Ghana-owned but Chinese-operated ship known as MV Comforter II sank on Friday during a storm south of Ghana's second port city Takoradi, 220 kilometres (135...
Australia PM says will 'ensure' no China base on Solomon Islands
May 08, 2022 (AFP)
China's growing clout in the Pacific has become a hot political issue in Australia ahead of the polls, following Beijing's announcement last month that it had s...
World's ocean is losing its memory under global warming
May 08, 2022 (SPX)
Compared with the fast weather fluctuations of the atmosphere, the slowly varying ocean exhibits strong persistence, or "memory", meaning the ocean temperature ...
Saving the Mekong delta from drowning
May 08, 2022 (SPX)
"It's hard to fathom that a landform the size of the Netherlands and with a comparable population might disappear by the end of the century", said study co-lead...
Australia, Solomons meet as tempers fray over China deal
May 07, 2022 (AFP)
Australia's foreign minister, Marise Payne, held talks with her Solomons counterpart in Brisbane on Friday night, three days after the island state's leader mad...
Satellites over Amazon capture choking of 'House of God' river by the Belo Monte Dam
May 03, 2022 (The Conversation)
Five years ago, the Big Bend was a broad river valley interwoven with river channels teaming with fish, turtles and other wildlife. Today, as much as 80% of the...
Sweet spots in the sea: Mountains of sugar under seagrass meadows
May 03, 2022 (SPX)
"To put this into perspective: We estimate that worldwide there are between 0.6 and 1.3 million tons of sugar, mainly in the form of sucrose, in the seagrass rh...
'Lungs of the Mediterranean' at risk
May 02, 2022 (AFP)
Even more importantly, seagrass is such a key store of carbon and producer of oxygen -- critical to slowing the devastating impacts of climate change -- that th...
New Zealand sea level rising more quickly than forecast: data
May 02, 2022 (AFP)
Government-backed data amassed from around the country's coastline found some areas are already sinking three to four millimetres per year, speeding up a long-e...
China-Solomons security deal upends Australian election
Apr 30, 2022 (AFP)
Australia's Liberal government lobbied hard against the Solomons signing the pact, alongside ally the United States, but neither was successful in dissuading Ho...
Earth's atmosphere may be source of some lunar water
Apr 29, 2022 (SPX)
The work led by UAF Geophysical Institute associate research professor Gunther Kletetschka adds to a growing body of research about water at the moon's north an...
Study predicts mass marine life extinction if warming continues
Apr 28, 2022 (AFP)
But limiting planetary warming to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels will stave off such a catastrophe, said the paper's authors, Justin Penn and C...
China 'likely' to put troops in Solomons: Australia minister
Apr 27, 2022 (AFP)
The deal was announced by Beijing last Tuesday, weeks after a draft version leaked on social media and sparked concern it could open the door to a Chinese milit...
Overuse and climate change kill off Iraq's Sawa Lake
Apr 26, 2022 (AFP)
Human activity and climate change have combined to turn the site into a barren wasteland with piles of salt. Abandoned hotels and tourist facilities here hark b...
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