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As oceans warm, marine cold spells are disappearing
Mar 18, 2022 (SPX)
Today, the oceans experience just 25% of the number of cold spell days they did in the 1980s, and cold spells are about 15% less intense, researchers found. Wea...
Microscopic ocean predator with a taste for carbon capture
Mar 15, 2022 (SPX)
The microbe, abundant around the world, photosynthesises and releases a carbon-rich exopolymer that attracts and immobilises other microbes. It then eats some o...
Sparkling pools, empty taps: Cape Town's stark water divide
Mar 15, 2022 (AFP)
It's been four years since South Africa's tourist capital nearly ran dry, during a drought that left the city limping towards a "Day Zero" when all the pipes wo...
Yangon residents queue for water as power blackouts bite
Mar 14, 2022 (AFP)
Last week the junta announced the country's already patchy power supply would be further reduced for seven days, blaming rising gas prices and attacks by anti-c...
Long look at Hawaiian corals suggests reasons for optimism amid warming seas, ocean acidification
Mar 11, 2022 (SPX)
Led by Oregon State University postdoctoral researcher Rowan McLachlan, the study is important because understanding the factors behind coral health is crucial ...
Increasing frequency of El Nino events expected by 2040
Mar 08, 2022 (SPX)
El Nino - the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean -affects climate, ecosystems and societies worldwide. The study examined f...
Electric Truck Hydropower, a flexible solution to hydropower in mountainous regions
Mar 08, 2022 (SPX)
In our transition towards a more sustainable future, hydropower will likely grow in importance as a renewable energy source. Despite its potential, innovation i...
Corals can be trained to tolerate heat stress, study finds
Mar 04, 2022 (SPX)
These findings offer coral restoration scientists with a new approach to potentially increase the success rate of planting nursery-raised staghorn coral onto de...
Rapid evolution fuels transcriptional plasticity in fish species to cope with ocean acidification
Mar 04, 2022 (SPX)
Global ocean surface pH is projected to decline with the ongoing uptake of anthropogenic atmospheric CO2 by the oceans, a process termed ocean acidification (OA...
China's high-quality natural streamflow gauge-based dataset (1961-2018)
Feb 28, 2022 (SPX)
In the current study, the researchers adopted a well-trained and tested land surface model coupled to a routing model with flow direction correction to reconstr...
Russia says captured key water supply route to Crimea
Feb 25, 2022 (AFP)
Crimea received most of its water from Ukraine's Dnieper River via the North Crimean Canal until 2014, when Moscow annexed the peninsula and Kyiv authorities bl...
Satellite laser altimetry helps monitor changes in global lake water storage
Feb 24, 2022 (SPX)
However, it's been difficult to evaluate changes in global lake-water volume across space and time due to data problems. Specifically, ground-monitoring data ha...
Global warming is rapidly amplifying our water cycle
Feb 24, 2022 (SPX)
But rising global temperatures have been making this system more extreme: water is moving away from dry regions towards wet regions, causing droughts to worsen ...
Sudan slams Ethiopia move at controversial Nile dam
Feb 22, 2022 (AFP)
Sudan "has emphasised its rejection of all unilateral measures with regard to filling and operation" of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the spokesman for i...
Mysteries and music: listening in to underwater life
Feb 18, 2022 (AFP)
"We recorded over 30 seagrasses and it was always there and no-one knew the species that was producing this kwa! kwa! kwa!" said Lucia Di Iorio, a researcher in...
Reducing the negatives of Amazon hydropower expansion
Feb 18, 2022 (SPX)
Coauthor Stephen Hamilton, an ecosystem ecologist at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies explains, "Continued hydropower development in the Amazon is inevitable...
Seagrasses continue to release methane after their die-off
Feb 17, 2022 (SPX)
Sina Schorn and her colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and Hydra Marine Sciences first investigated what the methane in the seagra...
Sea Level to rise up to a foot by 2050
Feb 17, 2022 (JPL)
The report - an update to a 2017 report - forecasts sea level to the year 2150 and, for the first time, offers near-term projections for the next 30 years. Agen...
Sea level projected to rise a foot on US coasts by 2050
Feb 15, 2022 (AFP)
The Sea Level Rise Technical Report combined tide gauge and satellite observations with climate modeling from the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chan...
Where on Earth did the water come from
Feb 15, 2022 (SPX)
The source of Earth's water has been a longstanding debate and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists think they have the answer - and they fo...
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