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Lebanon dam planned atop fault line stirs fears
Jun 29, 2017 (AFP)
"How can you build a dam in an earthquake zone? We don't even have houses that are earthquake-proof," said Amer Meshmushi, a resident of Bisri Valley, 35 kilome...
Water exists as two different liquids
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
Most of us know that water is essential for our existence on planet Earth. It is less well-known that water has many strange or anomalous properties and behaves...
Biodiversity loss from deep-sea mining will be unavoidable
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
The experts say the International Seabed Authority (ISA), which is responsible under the UN Law of the Sea for regulating undersea mining in areas outside natio...
Could this strategy bring high-speed communications to the deep sea?
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
By taking advantage of the dynamic rotation generated as acoustic waves travel, the orbital angular momenta, researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence ...
Ten million tons of fish wasted every year despite declining fish stocks
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
The study by researchers with Sea Around Us, an initiative at the University of British Columbia's Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and the University of ...
Scientists hope artificial reef can protect ocean biodiversity from climate change
Jun 27, 2017 (UPI)
Coral reefs anchor the food chains and ecosystems that support much of the ocean's biodiversity. But the health of many reefs continue to decline as ocean water...
Great Barrier Reef a $42 billion asset 'too big to fail': study
Jun 26, 2017 (AFP)
The World Heritage-listed reef is the largest living structure on Earth and its economic and social value was calculated for the first time in the Deloitte Acce...
China's hydropower frenzy drowns sacred mountains
Jun 26, 2017 (AFP)
The colossal construction site in Sichuan province swallows three rivers, providing another display of China's engineering prowess but also of the trauma it inf...
Wave beams mix and stir the ocean to create climate
Jun 26, 2017 (SPX)
This week in the journal Physics of Fluids, from AIP Publishing, investigators from the South China Sea Institute of Oceanography report how to tell which way i...
Water exists in two distinct liquid phases
Jun 26, 2017 (UPI)
"Water can exist as two different liquids at low temperatures where ice crystallization is slow," Anders Nilsson, a professor of physical chemistry at Stockholm...
Greenland now a major driver of rising seas: study
Jun 26, 2017 (AFP)
The findings add to growing concern among scientists that the global watermark is climbing more rapidly than forecast only a few years ago, with potentially dev...
Algae The final frontier
Jun 23, 2017 (SPX)
Algae are everywhere. They are part of crusts on desert surfaces and form massive blooms in lakes and oceans. They range in size from tiny single-celled organis...
Strange, glowing, tube-like creatures invade waters off the Pacific Northwest
Jun 21, 2017 (UPI)
Most of the bioluminescent invertebrates measure a few inches in length, but some can grow up to two feet long. They've been arriving by the millions in recent ...
In the Red Sea, coral reefs can take the heat of climate change
Jun 21, 2017 (AFP)
The corals, striking in their red, orange and green colours, grow on tables some eight metres (26 feet) underwater, put there by the Israeli scientists to unloc...
Amazonia's future will be jeopardized by dams
Jun 20, 2017 (SPX)
The Amazon River and its watershed - the largest river system on Earth - cover 6.1 million square kilometers (2.4 million square miles) and includes nine countr...
A changing climate affects plankton populations
Jun 20, 2017 (SPX)
Temperature, nutrient availability and mortality rates are three primary factors that can strongly influence the numbers of these simple organisms known as hete...
Global coral bleaching may be ending, US agency says
Jun 20, 2017 (AFP)
Its experts said satellite data and other analysis showed widespread bleaching was no longer occurring in all three ocean basins -- Atlantic, Pacific and Indian...
Hawaiian canoe comes home after epic round-the-world odyssey
Jun 18, 2017 (AFP)
The Hokule'a vessel and its crew entered the marina at Honolulu's Magic Island peninsula on Saturday after sailing more than 40,000 nautical miles (74,000 kilom...
Small scale, big improvements
Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)
At the same time, the chemical reactions that make these improvements possible occur at scales invisible to the naked eye (the atomic scale) where liquids and s...
Seawater-drinking battery promises power boost to long-range submersibles
Jun 16, 2017 (UPI)
Scientists spun the technology off into a startup company called Open Water Power. The company was recently acquired by L3 Technologies, an established tech fir...
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