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Autonomous boats could be your next ride
Oct 27, 2020 (SPX)
In an update to a five-year project from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Senseable City Lab, researchers have been...
Mexico arrests six soldiers over water protest death
Oct 27, 2020 (AFP)
The woman was shot dead last month during unrest at a dam in Chihuahua state near the US border. "Six arrest warrants were carried out against the personnel inv...
Sudan to organise week of talks on Ethiopia dam feud
Oct 27, 2020 (AFP)
"The three countries have agreed on Sudan organising, soon as possible, a meeting to submit to the African Union presidency a report on the means to make tangib...
Eco Wave Power develops wave energy power plant verification and maintenance software
Oct 27, 2020 (SPX)
The company's R and D and engineering department used extensive analysis of the global wave energy industry and found a strong need for the possibility of real-...
Three-way Ethiopia dam talks to resume after Trump warning
Oct 26, 2020 (AFP)
Their foreign and irrigation ministers are to hold a videoconference brokered by the African Union (AU), the Sudanese irrigation ministry said, after a three-mo...
Ethiopia accuses Trump of inciting 'war' over Nile dam
Oct 24, 2020 (AFP)
Foreign Minister Gedu Andargachew summoned US ambassador Michael Raynor to clarify Trump's comments, which mark the US president's latest foray into a delicate,...
Thousands of seals found dead in Namibia
Oct 24, 2020 (AFP)
Conservationist Naude Dreyer of the charity Ocean Conservation Namibia began noticing dead seals littering the sandy beaches of the Pelican Point colony near Wa...
US Coast Guard to tackle China 'illegal' fishing in Pacific
Oct 24, 2020 (AFP)
Accusing China of "illegal" and "unregulated" fishing, as well as "harassment" of fishing boats from regional countries, White House National Security Advisor R...
Trump suggests Egypt may 'blow up' Ethiopia dam
Oct 23, 2020 (AFP)
Trump made the remarks as he announced a breakthrough normalization deal between US ally Israel and Sudan, which like Egypt fears that Ethiopia will use up scar...
Mexico strikes deal with US to settle water debt
Oct 22, 2020 (AFP)
The government has been caught between US pressure to meet an October 24 deadline under a water-sharing treaty and public opposition in Chihuahua state, where a...
Depths of the Weddell Sea are warming five times faster than elsewhere
Oct 21, 2020 (SPX)
In the article, they analyse an unprecedented oceanographic time series from the Weddell Sea and show that the warming of the polar depths is chiefly due to cha...
'Like the speed of the wind': Kenya's lakes rise to destructive highs
Oct 21, 2020 (AFP)
A clump of sodden straw marked the spot: the tip of his thatch hut jutting from the murky depths, all that remained of his homestead after Kenya's Lake Baringo ...
Captive-bred salmon in wild may do more harm than good
Oct 21, 2020 (AFP)
On average, salmon born in hatcheries in Ireland's Burrishoole catchment only produced a third as many offspring in the North Atlantic compared to wild fish, ac...
Ramping up to launch sea-level charting satellite
Oct 20, 2020 (SPX)
Since the satellite arrived at Vandenberg in California on 24 September, it has been transferred to the SpaceX Payload Processing Facility, unpacked and undergo...
Climate change driving mussel, barnacle, snail declines along Maine coast
Oct 20, 2020 (UPI)
The combination of ocean warming and acidification is driving declines among five species of mussels, barnacles and snails along the coast of Maine, according t...
US-European sea level satellite gears up for launch
Oct 19, 2020 (SPX)
Surviving the bone-rattling vibrations and sounds of launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket is just the start of the mission. Once in orbit some 830 miles (1,336 kilomet...
Recent Atlantic ocean warming unprecedented in nearly 3,000 years
Oct 19, 2020 (SPX)
A team led by Francois Lapointe and Raymond Bradley in the Climate System Research Center of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Pierre Francus at Unive...
A new land surface model to monitor global river water environment
Oct 16, 2020 (SPX)
"We need to assess the impacts of these human activities on global river temperature and riverine N transport," said Prof. Zhenghui Zie with the Institute of At...
Rain really does move mountains, study finds
Oct 16, 2020 (UPI)
The role that rain -- and climate -- plays in the evolution of mountain changes has been debated for decades. It seems intuitive that rain erodes mountains, alt...
Scientists shed new light on viruses' role in coral bleaching
Oct 14, 2020 (SPX)
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the research is important because understanding the factors behind coral health is crucial to efforts to save the Ear...
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