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Texas coast uses Christmas trees to rebuild storm-ravaged dunes
Jan 25, 2021 (AFP)
Her town of Surfside Beach comes alive during the summer months, when Texans flock to the coast, but the landscape's saving grace is straight out of a winter wo...
Ageing dams pose growing threat: UN
Jan 25, 2021 (SPX)
The report, "Ageing water infrastructure: An emerging global risk," by UNU's Canadian-based Institute for Water, Environment and Health, says most of the 58,700...
Deadliest catch: Thailand's 'ghost' fishing nets help Covid fight
Jan 22, 2021 (AFP)
The "ghost nets" discarded from the country's lucrative fishing industry are a deadly source of plastic pollution, ensnaring turtles and cutting into delicate c...
World's largest lakes reveal climate change trends
Jan 22, 2021 (SPX)
Scientists at the Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI) studied the five Laurentian Great Lakes bordering the U.S. and Canada; the three African Great Lakes, ...
Brazilian dam collapse could have been predicted with right monitoring technology
Jan 22, 2021 (SPX)
The high-profile catastrophe took place on 25 January 2019 at a tailings dam near the Corrego do Feijao iron ore mine, close to the town of Brumadinho, in Minas...
RussKap signs deal with Saudi compnay to manufacture atmospheric water generation machines
Jan 20, 2021 (SPX)
"We have looked for an exemplary partner in Saudi Arabia for our leading atmospheric water generation technology. After considering various companies, we determ...
Climate change will alter the position of the Earth's tropical rain belt
Jan 19, 2021 (SPX)
In a study published in Nature Climate Change, the interdisciplinary team of environmental engineers, Earth system scientists and data science experts stressed ...
Ex-state governor charged in Flint water crisis
Jan 15, 2021 (AFP)
Prosecutors allege that Snyder willfully neglected his duty to protect residents of the decaying former industrial city that switched its drinking water source ...
Amid Nile dam tensions, Egypt recalls Aswan 50 years on
Jan 13, 2021 (AFP)
It is also a stark reminder -- amid high tensions today as Addis Ababa fills its colossal Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) upstream -- of just how volatil...
Robot fleet tracks, analyzes microbial community in the open ocean
Jan 13, 2021 (UPI)
Marine microbes produce roughly half the planet's supply of oxygen and absorb the largest amounts of carbon dioxide. Ocean microbes also form the base of all ma...
'Corals are being cooked': A third of Taiwan's reefs are dying
Jan 13, 2021 (AFP)
An investigation conducted last year in 62 locations around the island by the Taiwan Coral Bleaching Observation Network (TCBON) showed bleaching had reached it...
High cost to wildlife from shark nets protecting S.Africa beaches
Jan 13, 2021 (AFP)
The 200-metre (-yard) stretch of mesh is meant to protect swimmers basking on the eastern coast's palm-lined beaches from shark attacks. But conservationists sa...
Florida's water brawl with Georgia nears historic SCOTUS hearing
Jan 11, 2021 (UPI)
The case is the first such interstate water dispute in the eastern United States to be heard by the high court since 1931, when New Jersey won a bid to restrict...
New analysis highlights importance of groundwater discharge into oceans
Jan 11, 2021 (SPX)
The new findings, published January 8 in Nature Communications, have implications for global models of biogeochemical cycles and for the interpretation of isoto...
Sudan voices frustration as latest Nile dam talks stall
Jan 10, 2021 (AFP)
Last week, the three countries had agreed to hold further talks to agree the filling and operation of the vast reservoir behind the 145-meter (475-foot) tall hy...
Warming driving Eastern Mediterranean species collapse: study
Jan 06, 2021 (AFP)
The waters off the coast of Israel -- among the hottest in the Mediterranean -- have already warmed three degrees Celsius within four decades, with water temper...
Israeli firm in Gaza extracts drinking water from air
Jan 05, 2021 (AFP)
Unusually, the project operating in the Islamist-run Palestinian enclave, which has been blockaded by Israel since 2007, is the brainchild of a Russian-Israeli ...
Study: Climate change isn't causing drylands to get drier
Jan 04, 2021 (UPI)
Scientists found a few key soil moisture-atmosphere feedback mechanisms are preventing Earth's drylands from becoming more arid. Because a warmer atmosphere can...
New technique could help scientists identify heat-stressed corals
Jan 04, 2021 (UPI)
The research, published this month in the journal Science Advances, promises to help conservationists craft more targeted marine protections. "This is similar t...
Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia agree to more Nile dam talks
Jan 03, 2021 (AFP)
Previous three-way talks have failed to produce an agreement on the filling and operation of the vast reservoir behind the 145-metre (475-foot) tall Grand Ethio...
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