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Shipping, fishing killed Canada right whales: autopsy

Oct 05, 2017 (AFP)

The necropsies were performed on only six of the animals and a seventh continues. But the team of researchers from the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative was ...

Prince Charles warns 'plastic on the menu' in world's fish

Oct 05, 2017 (AFP)

The heir to the British throne, a long-time champion of environmental causes, told the European Union-backed conference in Malta that ferocious hurricanes and c...

El Nino events can be triggered by major volcanic eruptions in the tropics

Oct 03, 2017 (UPI)

The El Niño Southern Oscillation describes a periodic variation in winds and sea surface temperatures. The irregular variability features two main patterns: a ...

Big rainy season leaves dozens dead in Central America

Oct 03, 2017 (AFP)

Weather observatories said precipitation in September and October -- usually the wettest period of the five-month-long season -- were 25 to 50 percent heavier t...

Discovery of a new group of sponges could help measure impact of deep-sea mining

Sep 26, 2017 (SPX)

The new discovery, described in the journal Systematics and Biodiversity, was made in the vast 5 million square kilometre region of the central Pacific Ocean kn...

Getting the measure of mud

Sep 26, 2017 (SPX)

Acting like giant conveyor belts, ocean currents transport water warmed by the sun's powerful rays over the equator towards the poles. As the water cools and re...

Scientists call for more research on how human activities affect the seabed

Sep 26, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers from eight institutions and organisations have worked together to examine areas of sea or ocean located on the UK continental shelf to understand th...

A sustainable future powered by sea

Sep 25, 2017 (SPX)

That year, Professor Shintake and the Quantum Wave Microscopy Unit at OIST began a project titled "Sea Horse," aiming to harness energy from the Kuroshio ocean ...

Two Vietnamese fishermen dead in Philippine navy chase

Sep 25, 2017 (AFP)

A Philippine patrol ship pursued six Vietnamese fishing boats 56 kilometres (30 nautical miles) off the northern coastal town of Bolinao before dawn Saturday, a...

Puerto Rico rushes to evacuate many amid fears dam will burst

Sep 24, 2017 (AFP)

The drama unfolded as the US island territory, working without electricity, struggled to dig out and clean up from its disastrous brush with the hurricane, blam...

Veolia's US growth hopes run into trouble

Sep 24, 2017 (AFP)

The French water and waste management giant has targeted five percent revenue growth in North America in 2017, with the United States expected to lead the way. ...

Dam fails in Puerto Rico, 70,000 told to evacuate

Sep 23, 2017 (AFP)

With the death toll from the storm at 33 across the Caribbean, the National Weather Service office in capital San Juan Friday issued a flash flood warning for p...

Japanese scientists aim to turn ocean wave energy into electricity

Sep 22, 2017 (UPI)

Engineers at OIST have already harnessed the energy of ocean currents using underwater turbines. Now, the group is targeting the kinetic power of waves. The tea...

Black Sea water temperatures may buck global trend

Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)

The study used a model to simulate possible temperature changes and predict long term trends in the Black Sea's hydrodynamics. While the surface showed no long ...

Wave Glider surfs across stormy Drake Passage in Antarctica

Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)

Instead their job is increasingly being given to ocean drones, the autonomous floating vehicles that collect data from the world's oceans. With an urgent need t...

The godfather of eco-bling: Brando's Tahitian paradise

Sep 20, 2017 (AFP)

The tiny, palm-fringed atoll of Tetiaroa was once a favourite holiday spot for Tahitian royalty before the late American movie star fell in love with it while f...

Lockheed invests in Ocean Aero, in greater focus on unmanned maritime systems

Sep 19, 2017 (SPX)

Lockheed Martin Ventures is Ocean Aero's second significant investor, joining marine instrumentation leader Teledyne Technologies, which has invested in Ocean A...

Rogue wave could have downed El Faro cargo ship, research shows

Sep 19, 2017 (UPI)

Researchers used a new computer model, combined with weather and sea data from the time and place of El Faro's sinking, to determine whether a rogue wave might ...

Giant sea snail plan to rescue Barrier Reef

Sep 18, 2017 (AFP)

Predatory crown-of-thorns starfish, which munch coral, are naturally-occurring but have proliferated due to pollution and agricultural run-off at the struggling...

Lockheed Martin to invest in Submaran S10 submersible drone

Sep 15, 2017 (UPI)

The Submaran S10 is an autonomous unmanned submarine that is powered by solar and wind energy, giving it virtually unlimited endurance and letting it operate fo...