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Paradise lost: 'Anote's Ark' shows Kiribati on the brink

Feb 01, 2018 (AFP)

The low-lying Pacific nation of 33 atolls and reef islands is facing the unstoppable rise of the sea and will be gone before long, making its people the world's...

Coastal water absorbing more carbon dioxide

Feb 01, 2018 (SPX)

New research by University of Delaware oceanographer Wei-Jun Cai and colleagues at Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Texas A and M University-Corpus Christi, Unive...

World Bank funds fight against Baghdad water woes

Feb 01, 2018 (AFP)

Five million people are expected to benefit from the work, which includes steps to stop leaking sewer pipes contaminating Baghdad's water supply, the Bank said ...

Tempers flare at Cape Town water collection point

Jan 31, 2018 (AFP)

A fight broke out and one person was arrested by police earlier in the week in long queues at the Newland spring, southeast of the city centre, and local reside...

Navy turns to ERAPSCO for sonobuoy support

Jan 30, 2018 (UPI)

The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $9.6 million under the terms of a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery and is a modif...

Scientists pinpoint how ocean acidification weakens coral skeletons

Jan 30, 2018 (SPX)

Corals grow their skeletons upward toward sunlight and also thicken them to reinforce them. The new research, led by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst...

Satellite and global model estimates vary for land water storage

Jan 29, 2018 (SPX)

The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Jan. 22, raise questions about global models that have been used in recent yea...

Nauru, one of the smallest island nations, gets big climate support

Jan 29, 2018 (UPI)

The Asian Development Bank approved a $21.3 million grant to overhaul a port in the island nation of Nauru, the island nation's main link to the rest of the wor...

In the Galapagos, an idyllic hammerhead shark nursery

Jan 29, 2018 (AFP)

But until November, biologists had no idea the sharks had their own hideaway that could hold some of the final secrets of this remote archipelago 1,000 kilomete...

Global fish passage forum to include first symposium on hydropower and fish

Jan 25, 2018 (SPX)

The latter is scheduled to be chaired by Luiz Silva, a Brazilian freshwater fish scientist now based at the Australian university's Institute for Land, Water an...

Seabed mining could destroy ecosystems

Jan 25, 2018 (SPX)

Little is known about these environments, and researchers from the University of Exeter and Greenpeace say mining could have "long-lasting and unforeseen conseq...

French fishermen blockade Calais over electric pulse fishing

Jan 25, 2018 (AFP)

A dozen fishing trawlers cut off access to the quayside early this morning in Calais, France's biggest passenger port, before the blockade was lifted at about 5...

Ocean plastics raise risk of coral reef disease

Jan 25, 2018 (AFP)

Researchers examined more than 120,000 corals on 159 reefs -- some polluted with plastic, others not -- from Indonesia, Australia, Myanmar and Thailand for the ...

Panic and blame as Cape Town braces for water shut-off

Jan 24, 2018 (AFP)

For others, the thought of queueing under the scorching summer sun for a meagre daily water ration will be a necessary evil to keep their businesses solvent. Bu...

Small hydroelectric dams increase globally with little research, regulations

Jan 24, 2018 (SPX)

But not all dams are the stuff of documentaries. Tens of thousands of smaller hydroelectric dams exist around the world, and all indications suggest that the nu...

Dutch shocked by call to ban EU electric pulse fishing

Jan 20, 2018 (AFP)

On Tuesday, the European Parliament struck what may prove to be the death knell for some of the Dutch fishing fleet by demanding a ban on electric pulse fishing...

Scale-eating fish adopt clever parasitic methods to survive

Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)

A team led by biologists at the University of Washington's Friday Harbor Laboratories is trying to understand these scale-feeding fish and how this odd diet inf...

Clean and green: A moss that removes lead from water

Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)

Lead-contaminated water is a serious environmental concern that has recently proved to be disastrous when left untreated. Compounding the problem, the typical w...

Cape Town water ration to be slashed as drought bites

Jan 18, 2018 (AFP)

Mayor Patricia de Lille has warned that if rains do not materialise and drastic consumption reductions are not achieved the normal water supply will be shut off...

Feeding patterns among coastal, deep ocean sharks differ, study shows

Jan 18, 2018 (UPI)

Shark populations are declining across the globe, suggesting new and more robust conservation approaches are desperately needed. The researchers behind the late...