WATER WORLD

News About The Oceans of Earth

6,978 articles

Where Ocean Meets Sky: New NASA Radar Gets a Tryout
Jun 05, 2017 (JPL)
This delicate dance is crucial to understanding Earth's changing climate. Gathering data on this interaction can also help people track oil spills, plan shippin...
Nepal, China sign mega hydropower agreement
Jun 05, 2017 (AFP)
Nepal's energy minister Janardan Sharma on Sunday signed the agreement for the China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CGGC) to build the long-mooted 1,200 megawatt B...
New ceramic nanofiber 'sponges' could be used for flexible insulation, water purification
Jun 05, 2017 (SPX)
"The basic science question we tried to answer is how can we make a material that's highly deformable but resistant to high temperature," said Huajian Gao, a pr...
First UN talks to save oceans kick off Monday
Jun 04, 2017 (AFP)
The Ocean Conference in New York June 5-9 attempts to rally nations big and small to make meaningful changes to preserve what is arguably the Earth's most impor...
Fiji's COP 23 leader vows climate fight 'far from over'
Jun 02, 2017 (AFP)
Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama, who will serve as president of the COP 23 talks in Germany later this year, labelled the US move "deeply disappointing"....
Off US coast, Tangier Island disappearing under water
Jun 02, 2017 (AFP)
Eskridge's family has lived here for the last 200 years. But perhaps not for much longer. The island is under threat from rapid erosion that is being accelerate...
Bacteria may supercharge the future of wastewater treatment
Jun 01, 2017 (SPX)
That's because wastewater from our sinks, toilets, showers and washing machines can be turned into valuable products with the help of scientists and unique bact...
Study highlights formation of beachrock in resisting sea level rises
Jun 01, 2017 (SPX)
Professor Gordon Southam of UQ's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences said the findings threw new light on an area of coastal ecology that had been little...
Acidified ocean water widespread along North American West Coast
Jun 01, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers say that conditions will continue to worsen because the atmospheric carbon dioxide primarily to blame for this increase in acidification has bee...
Marine species distribution shifts will continue under ocean warming
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
The findings, reported in Progress in Oceanography, suggest ocean temperature will continue to play a major role in where commercially and recreationally import...
Faceless fish among weird deep sea Australian finds
May 31, 2017 (AFP)
The month-long journey off the country's eastern seaboard has been surveying life lurking in a dark and cold abyss that plunges four kilometres (2.5 miles) belo...
Report: China plans underwater monitoring system
May 30, 2017 (UPI)
The South China Morning Post quoted CCTV that the $290 million project was recently approved by the Chinese government. The system will reportedly take five yea...
Sea level as a metronome of Earth's history
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, - together with colleagues at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and American and Spanish scientist...
A 3-D look at the 2015 El Nino
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
Under normal conditions, equatorial trade winds in the Pacific Ocean blow from east to west, causing warm water to pile up in the Western Pacific, while also ca...
Historical rainfall levels are significant in carbon emissions from soil
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
The findings, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, point the way toward more accurate climate modeling and improve scientists' under...
Squeezing every drop of fresh water from waste brine
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
The research, which involves the development of a carbon nanotube-based heating element that will vastly improve the recovery of fresh water during membrane dis...
Growing sea cucumber demand threatening coastal communities
May 30, 2017 (UPI)
"For many coastal communities, sea cucumber isn't something that was harvested in the past. Fisheries emerged rapidly. Money, buyers and fishers from outside th...
China's 'toilet revolution' targets dirty lavatories
May 29, 2017 (AFP)
Relief is coming soon, and by the end of the year China expects to have added or upgraded a total of 71,000 toilets, well exceeding a target initially set in 20...
Great Barrier Reef bleaching worse than first thought
May 29, 2017 (AFP)
The 2,300-kilometre (1,400-mile) World Heritage-listed reef suffered its most severe bleaching on record last year due to warming sea temperatures during March ...
LA lawns use 70 billion gallons of water a year
May 28, 2017 (SPX)
The results, based on measurements taken before Los Angeles enacted mandatory watering restrictions in 2014, shows a pattern of systemic overwatering in the cit...
Buy Advertising About Us Editorial & Other Enquiries Privacy statement
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.