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Ben-Gurion introduces Israel's first underwater robotic vehicle

Oct 20, 2017 (SPX)

BGN Technologies Ltd., BGU's technology-transfer company, also announced the formation of a new company, BG Robotics (BGR), to commercialize the HydroCamel II, ...

Coral study: Previous warming period inspired sea level rise in fits and starts

Oct 19, 2017 (UPI)

At the end of the last ice age, between 20,000 and 10,000 years ago, Earth's glaciers finally began to retreat and melt. As temperatures warmed and glaciers shr...

World's deepest lake in peril, scientists warn

Oct 19, 2017 (AFP)

Holding one-fifth of the world's unfrozen fresh water, Baikal in Russia's Siberia is a natural wonder of "exceptional value to evolutionary science" meriting it...

Wither heavy storms

Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)

In the drylands of the Colorado's lower basin, formed by Nevada, Arizona and California, thunderstorms - known in meteorological parlance as convective precipit...

Clear lakes disguise impaired water quality

Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)

Yet when scientists looked at 13 years of data from 139 lakes in intensively agricultural areas of Iowa they saw lakes that were surprisingly clear despite extr...

Toward efficient high-pressure desalination

Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)

Now, research from MIT suggests a different approach to reducing the rate of fouling and thus improving the efficiency of RO plants. The prevailing idea in the ...

Ocean atmosphere rife with microbes

Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)

Understanding the oceans' role as a source and sink for airborne microbes can provide insight into the maintenance of microbial diversity and how human, animal ...

Rainfall trends in arid regions buck commonly held climate change theories

Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)

Scientific research suggests that global warming causes heavier rainfall because a hotter atmosphere can hold more moisture and warmer oceans evaporate faster f...

Researchers make headway in desalination technology

Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)

The need for practical desalinization technology is rising in the context of global climate change. Coastal regions, where the rise of seawater could encroach u...

Active sieving could improve dialysis and water purification filters

Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)

These new views on how active sieving could improve systems such as those used in water purification and dialysis were reported this week in The Journal of Chem...

Harvey runoff is threatening coral reefs in the Gulf of Mexico

Oct 16, 2017 (UPI)

Last month, monitoring buoys measured a 10 percent drop in salinity at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, located 100 miles off the coast of Gal...

'Thirsty protests' hit Morocco over water shortages

Oct 15, 2017 (AFP)

Since the start of the summer, inhabitants in the region of desert town Zagora have been left parched and furious as water supplies are cut off for hours -- or ...

Huge spike in global carbon emissions linked to El Nino

Oct 13, 2017 (AFP)

But new satellite data shows that the weather phenomenon El Nino is to blame, because it led to dry spells that put stress on plants and trees across the tropic...

ERAPSCO awarded $219M contract for underwater sonobuoys

Oct 11, 2017 (UPI)

The announcement, made Tuesday by the Department of Defense, enables ERAPSCO, a joint venture between Sparton Corp. and Ultra Electronics, to deliver 166,500 AN...

Underwater nurseries help revive Mediterranean fish stocks

Oct 11, 2017 (AFP)

Based in the Mediterranean city of Montpellier Ecocean harvests baby fish, nurtures them onshore and then returns them to the sea after a short acclimatization ...

How global warming is drying up the North American monsoon

Oct 10, 2017 (SPX)

In a report published Oct. 9 in the journal Nature Climate Change, a team of Princeton and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) researchers ha...

Expanded bluefin tuna quotas could reverse recovery: scientists

Oct 07, 2017 (AFP)

The warm-blooded, fatty fish -- which can grow to the size of a small car, and swim nearly as fast -- underpins a billion-dollar business and is a culinary main...

CORRECTED: Expanded bluefin tuna quotas could reverse recovery: scientists

Oct 07, 2017 (AFP)

The warm-blooded, fatty fish -- which can grow to the size of a small car, and swim nearly as fast -- underpins a billion-dollar business and is a culinary main...

Did rapid sea-level rise drown fossil coral reefs around Hawaii?

Oct 06, 2017 (SPX)

Recent findings suggest that episodes of very rapid sea-level rise of about 20m in less than 500 years occurred in the last deglaciation, caused by periods of c...

Pacific's Niue creates huge marine sanctuary

Oct 06, 2017 (AFP)

While Niue's landmass is only 260 square kilometres (100 square miles), its remote location about 2,400 kilometres northeast of New Zealand means it lays claim ...