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NASA Watches Sea Level Rise from Space, and its Centers' Windows
Nov 11, 2020 (SPX)
As Earth's sea levels rise, so does the potential damage from storms, storm surges, and extreme weather events. In 2005, the costliest tropical cyclone on recor...
Changing Pacific Conditions Raise Sea Level Along U.S. West Coast
Nov 10, 2020 (JPL)
But those who live along the coastline know better. They've seen first-hand the effects of coastal erosion, beach loss, storm damage, and tidal flooding resulti...
In a warming world, Cape Town's 'Day Zero' drought won't be an anomaly
Nov 10, 2020 (SPX)
Using new high-resolution simulations, researchers from Stanford University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) concluded that human-...
Genome editing experiments reveal gene for heat tolerance in corals
Nov 09, 2020 (UPI)
The discovery, detailed Monday in the journal PNAS, could aid efforts to safeguard coral reef ecosystems from the effects of climate change. "We developed an im...
Beating back the tides
Nov 06, 2020 (SPX)
"You can literally kayak from the bay right into this parking lot," said NOAA oceanographer William Sweet on the September day that we visited. The tide was rel...
Space skills help tackle water woes
Nov 05, 2020 (XNA)
Researchers and engineers at CASIC Smart Industry Development, a Beijing-based subsidiary that specializes in smart city solutions, have taken advantage of CASI...
Squid jet propulsion can enhance design of underwater robots, vehicles
Nov 04, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers in Scotland, the U.S., and China are exploring the fundamental mechanism behind squids' pulsed-jet propulsion. In Physics of Fluids, from AIP Publis...
Scientists find chink in coral-eating starfish armour
Nov 04, 2020 (AFP)
Crown-of-thorns starfish suck the colour and life out of corals, a favourite food, but in a healthy ecosystem their numbers are held in check. When marine heatw...
South American states join forces against Chinese fishing threat
Nov 04, 2020 (AFP)
Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru threatened measures "to prevent, discourage and jointly confront" illegal fishing near their exclusive economic zones in the P...
A breakthrough of the mechanism of energy saving in collective swimming
Nov 04, 2020 (SPX)
Collective behaviour has drawn a great interest to biologists. A well-known example is that geese fly in "V"-shape or "-"-shape formations in long-distance migr...
The cement for coral reefs
Nov 04, 2020 (SPX)
A team of researchers from Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) and the University of Bayreuth have now discovered that a very specific type ...
Sudan says latest Nile dam talks failed
Nov 04, 2020 (AFP)
The negotiations, held over videoconference, kicked off Sunday and were meant to last a week in a renewed bid to end the long-running stalemate over the Grand E...
An underwater navigation system powered by sound
Nov 03, 2020 (SPX)
MIT researchers think so. They've built a battery-free pinpointing system dubbed Underwater Backscatter Localization (UBL). Rather than emitting its own acousti...
Goby fins are as touch sensitive as human fingertips
Nov 03, 2020 (UPI)
From the moment of birth, humans start grabbing and touching. The ability to experience and manipulate the world through touch is one of the qualities that make...
Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia restart Nile mega-dam talks
Nov 01, 2020 (AFP)
The week-long negotiations, held via videoconference, include water ministers from the three countries, as well as representatives from the African Union, Europ...
Doubts about safety of Flint's water 6 years after crisis
Oct 29, 2020 (AFP)
On a Tuesday morning this month, blocks and blocks of cars waited near a church in the eastern part of the Midewestern city to receive value packs of bottled wa...
'Moderate to strong' La Nina this year: UN
Oct 29, 2020 (AFP)
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said La Nina "has developed and is expected to last into next year, affecting temperatures, precipitation and storm ...
Soil-powered fuel cell promises cheap, sustainable water purification
Oct 29, 2020 (SPX)
A team of chemical and electrical engineers has demonstrated the potential of cheap, simple 'soil microbial fuel cells' (SMFCs), buried in the earth to power an...
Beaches can survive sea-level rises as long as they have space to move
Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)
The claim was made by European researchers in a paper published in Nature Climate Change in March 2020 (Sandy coastlines under threat of erosion by Vousdoukas e...
UM researcher proposes sea-level rise global observing system
Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)
Elipot's research, published in the American Geophysical Union's journal Geophysical Research Letters, demonstrates that if these current drifters recorded alti...
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