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Thousands protest dried-up river in Iran's Isfahan
Nov 19, 2021 (AFP)
The massive protest, that drew in farmers and other people from across Isfahan province, was the biggest since demonstrations over the water crisis started on N...
US-European satellite to track world's water
Nov 19, 2021 (JPL)
SWOT is a collaboration between NASA and the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), with contributions from the Canadian Space Agency (C...
First electric autonomous cargo ship launched in Norway
Nov 19, 2021 (AFP)
By shipping up to 120 containers of fertilizer from a plant in the southeastern town of Porsgrunn to the Brevik port a dozen kilometres (about eight miles) away...
Nations vote to extend protection to over 50 shark species
Nov 18, 2021 (UPI)
The measure, which was introduced by host nation Panama, offers protection to approximately two-thirds of the species that are targeted in the global shark fin ...
How corals react to climate change
Nov 15, 2021 (SPX)
Under stress, the colony of polyps that form a stony coral dissolves. The individual polyps can then settle elsewhere and form new coral colonies. The phenomeno...
Drought, overpumping cut Morocco river link to sea
Nov 15, 2021 (AFP)
One of the longest rivers in the North African kingdom and a vital lifeline for farmers in the area near the Algerian border, the final few paces of the 500-kil...
Pacific's Kiribati to allow fishing in vast marine park
Nov 15, 2021 (AFP)
The proposal would threaten the World Heritage listing of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, a marine park the size of Greenland that sits about halfway betwee...
Lionfish -- an invasive menace terrorizing Venezuela's coast
Nov 12, 2021 (AFP)
"It's beautiful, but you have to kill it," says Mavi Escalona, a Venezuelan nurse and amateur spearfisher. "It causes a lot of damage, and it's delicious!" The ...
Industrial fishing over the past century appears to have broken a law of nature
Nov 12, 2021 (SPX)
In a study published this week in Science Advances, an international team involving researchers from McGill University, the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics...
Humans guilty of breaking an oceanic law of nature
Nov 12, 2021 (SPX)
As policymakers assemble in Glasgow for the UN Climate Change Conference, there is growing recognition that human impacts on the environment are going global an...
Syria reservoir dries up for first time
Nov 11, 2021 (AFP)
With man-made climate change increasing the frequency of drought and wildfires worldwide, Syria is experiencing one of its driest and hottest years on record af...
US federal judge awards $626 mn payment to Flint residents over lead poisoning in water supply
Nov 11, 2021 (AFP)
The payment, one of the largest civil settlements in Michigan's history, will mainly go to people who were children at the time of the water crisis in the forme...
Tuvalu minister films climate speech standing in ocean
Nov 09, 2021 (AFP)
In the video, Simon Kofe tells delegates that "climate change and sea-level rise are deadly and existential risks for Tuvalu and low-lying atoll nations". "We a...
Desperate US bid to engineer corals for climate change
Nov 08, 2021 (AFP)
Researchers in Florida are aiming to determine whether coral can be saved from rising water temperatures and acidification by transplanting stem cells from resi...
WTO chief hails 'important step' towards elusive fishing deal
Nov 08, 2021 (AFP)
"Time is short and I believe that this text reflects a very important step toward a final outcome," Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who took the reins of the global trade ...
Scientists project increased risk to water supplies in South Africa this century
Nov 08, 2021 (SPX)
A better understanding of likely surface air temperature and precipitation trends in South Africa and other dry, populated areas around the world in the coming ...
Coal product used to create green clean water
Nov 08, 2021 (SPX)
Dark-colored materials that strongly soak up sunlight to drive seawater desalination are a long-standing research interest of KAUST's Andrea Fratalocchi. While ...
Living on the Great Lakes -- a dream threatened by climate change
Nov 07, 2021 (AFP)
"I heard the pings. I know the sound because I used to drill rebar into the top of coal mines," Brandt explained. "I couldn't even imagine what was happening ou...
Coral bleaching impacts 98% of Great Barrier Reef: study
Nov 04, 2021 (AFP)
The paper in the peer-reviewed journal Current Biology found that just two percent of the vast underwater ecosystem had escaped impacts since the first mass cor...
Autonomous robotic rover monitors deep-sea carbon cycle and climate change
Nov 04, 2021 (SPX)
An autonomous robotic rover, Benthic Rover II, has provided new insight into life on the abyssal seafloor, 4,000 meters (13,100 feet) beneath the surface of the...
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