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Pacific algae invade Algeria beaches, pushing humans and fish away
Aug 04, 2025 (AFP)
Following a recent government call to help clear beaches swarmed by the seaweed species known scientifically as Rugulopteryx okamurae, several volunteers and ch...
FBI opens New Zealand office, citing China threat
Jul 31, 2025 (AFP)
Patel has spent recent days in the capital Wellington meeting with senior government ministers as well as intelligence bosses and law enforcement officials. "So...
NOAA says Gulf of Mexico dead zone is smaller this year
Jul 31, 2025 (UPI)
The dead zone in the gulf is 4,402 square miles, 21% smaller than estimates from June. It's the 15th smallest measurement on record. That means that there are a...
Iran president warns Tehran dams may run dry within months
Jul 31, 2025 (AFP)
"If we in Tehran cannot manage the situation, and if people do not cooperate with us and we fail to control consumption, there will be no water left behind our ...
Huge quake off Russia sparks Pacific tsunamis; Peru shutters half its ports
Jul 30, 2025 (AFP)
The Navy recommended suspending port and fishing activities and urged people to stay away from the ocean. The South American country's COEN national emergency c...
Chinese sub discovers deepest-ever creatures 10 km undersea
Jul 30, 2025 (AFP)
The discovery in Earth's deepest underwater valley suggests that there could be much more life thriving in the hostile conditions at the bottom of our planet's ...
UAE begins pipeline project to ease Gaza water shortage
Jul 30, 2025 (AFP)
Technical teams sent by the UAE have started transporting equipment needed for the project, the Emirati state news agency WAM reported on Wednesday. The nearly ...
Life after cod: Latvia reinvents its coastal communities
Jul 30, 2025 (AFP)
Decreasing salinity in the Baltic Sea is robbing the saltwater fish of the conditions it needs to thrive. And as its population shrinks, so do the fishing tradi...
We tracked illegal fishing in marine protected areas - satellites and AI show most bans are respected, and could help enforce future ones
Jul 25, 2025 (SPX)
While the name invokes safe havens for fish, whales and other sea life, these areas can be hard to monitor. High-profile violations, such as recent fishing flee...
US, Mexico agree to fund border river cleanup projects
Jul 25, 2025 (AFP)
The Tijuana River flows through the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California and empties into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California in the...
New global study shows freshwater is disappearing at alarming rates
Jul 25, 2025 (SPX)
The research team reports that drying areas on land are expanding at a rate roughly twice the size of California every year. And, the rate at which dry areas ar...
Vanuatu island chief 'very impressed' by global climate decision
Jul 24, 2025 (AFP)
Vanuatu spearheaded the legal case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, which found countries have a duty to protect against the "urgent and exis...
Pacific climate pioneer still fears for island nation's future
Jul 24, 2025 (AFP)
Kiribati, a climate-threatened archipelago that is home to some 130,000 people, sits barely two metres (6.5 feet) above sea level, has little freshwater, no riv...
Cook Islands wages war on 'plague' of hungry starfish
Jul 24, 2025 (AFP)
These makeshift tools are their best weapons in the war against crown-of-thorns starfish, a coral-munching species eating through tropical reefs already weakene...
Sri Lanka orders Singapore shipowner to pay US$1 bn over marine disaster
Jul 24, 2025 (AFP)
The Supreme Court directed Express Feeders, the owners of the MV X-Press Pearl which sank off Colombo Port in June 2021 after a fire that raged for nearly two w...
The Pacific island nation that wants to mine the ocean floor
Jul 23, 2025 (AFP)
Fringed by sparkling lagoons and palm-shaded beaches, Pacific nation the Cook Islands has opened its vast ocean territory for mining exploration. Research vesse...
More than 80% of Tuvalu seeks Australian climate visa
Jul 23, 2025 (AFP)
Australia is offering visas to Tuvalu citizens each year under a climate migration deal Canberra has billed as "the first agreement of its kind anywhere in the ...
Greece mulls water-saving moves as heatwave intensifies
Jul 23, 2025 (AFP)
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the cabinet had discussed plans to make water companies more "viable", noting that reserves in Athens were down 50 perce...
Trump a boon for deep-sea mining: industry boss
Jul 23, 2025 (AFP)
Moana Minerals wants to mine a swathe of deep ocean in the South Pacific nation for polymetallic nodules, golf-ball sized lumps studded with metals like cobalt,...
Pacific Island students spearhead drive for ICJ climate justice
Jul 22, 2025 (AFP)
Frustrated by the glacial global efforts to tackle climate change that are wrecking their homelands, 27 law students at the University of the South Pacific deci...
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