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Turkey proxies weaponising water in north Syria: report
Nov 03, 2021 (AFP)
New research conducted by Dutch peace-building organisation PAX shows that the Syrian National Army (SNA) built three dams that cut off the vital Khabour river....
Sinkholes on receding Dead Sea shore mark 'nature's revenge'
Nov 03, 2021 (AFP)
A spectacular expanse of water in the desert, flanked by cliffs to east and west, the Dead Sea has lost a third of its surface area since 1960. The blue water r...
Marine microbes more effective reducing methane than expected
Nov 03, 2021 (SPX)
Microbes play an important role in suppressing release of methane from marine sediments and thus prevent consequences such as ocean acidification (if methane is...
'We can't lose hope' to save the planet says ex-Maldives president
Nov 03, 2021 (AFP)
Nasheed, who is representing dozens of the world's most climate vulnerable countries, is at COP26 to call on world leaders to make good on their promises to hel...
Ecuador proposes debt swap to enlarge Galapagos
Nov 01, 2021 (AFP)
President Guillermo Lasso announced the move at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. The Galapagos, an archipelago located 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) off the ...
Self-driving Roboats, developed at MIT, set sea in Amsterdam canals
Oct 28, 2021 (SPX)
Scientists from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Senseable City Laboratory, together with Amsterdam Institute for A...
NASA's S-MODE mission kicks off 1st deployment
Oct 27, 2021 (SPX)
In addition, scientists think these small-scale ocean features play an important role in the exchange of heat and gases between air and sea. Understanding small...
Cheap, abundant renewable energy powers cluster of Quebec data centres
Oct 27, 2021 (AFP)
Demand for cloud services has sent the number of data centres soaring worldwide, and in Quebec alone fifty now operate where just 39 existed two years ago. Many...
Water tycoon is China's richest as wealth crackdown batters Jack Ma
Oct 27, 2021 (AFP)
Zhong, in his late 60s, has seen his fortune swell following the stock listings last year of his Nongfu Spring mineral water and separate pharma company Wantai ...
Scientists discover communication among 53 sea creatures thought silent
Oct 26, 2021 (UPI)
The study, published by scientific journal Nature Communications, says sea dwelling vertebrates such as turtles and lungfish audibly communicate. Unlike frogs a...
Iraq blames Iran for drastic decline in river flow
Oct 26, 2021 (AFP)
The Sirwan river begins in Iran, flowing to Darbandikhan Dam in northeastern Iraq before going through the rural province of Diyala and joining the Tigris. "The...
Humans to blame for warming lakes
Oct 26, 2021 (ESA)
New research published this week is a prime example of facts that matter. Using model projections combined with satellite data from ESA's Climate Change Initiat...
Drifting into trouble? The tiny ocean creatures with a global impact
Oct 25, 2021 (AFP)
But when scientist Clare Ostle opens it up and draws out the silk scrolls inside, she is looking for the telltale green glow from some of the most important cre...
Sea levels 'could rise much faster': Dutch meteorologists
Oct 25, 2021 (AFP)
As world leaders get ready to attend the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, "future scenarios show higher rising in sea levels than before, the Royal Dutch Metero...
Maine's North Woods offers glimpse of future fights for 'green energy'
Oct 22, 2021 (UPI)
To deliver hydroelectric power from Canadian mega dams to ratepayers in Massachusetts, the New England Clean Energy Connect project would carve a 53-mile corrid...
'Becoming Cousteau' plumbs depths of French ocean explorer
Oct 21, 2021 (AFP)
"Becoming Cousteau," which hits theaters in the United States this Friday, traces the extraordinary life of the man through archive footage and interviews, and ...
Study finds half the world's coral reefs could be in 'unsuitable conditions' by 2035
Oct 11, 2021 (UPI)
Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa warned those conditions could occur under a worst-case scenario, in their findings published in the scientif...
Global warming kills 14 percent of world's corals in a decade
Oct 05, 2021 (AFP)
Hardest hit were corals in South Asia and the Pacific, around the Arabian Peninsula, and off the coast of Australia, more than 300 scientists in the Global Cora...
A river runs through it: Brussels uncovers hidden waterway
Oct 05, 2021 (AFP)
Now, bit by bit, the Belgian capital is starting to uncover its long-hidden waterway to eventually "return nature to the city". "It's a real paradigm shift," Be...
New Pacific Ocean circulation findings may hold key to better predicting impact of El Nino and La Nina
Oct 05, 2021 (SPX)
"What this CEC is doing, essentially, is sloshing water and heat back and forth between just north of the equator and just south of the equator," said Neil Tand...
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