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Once-dying Mexican river delta slowly nursed back to life

Apr 09, 2025 (AFP)

On a stretch of the Colorado River, which on the Mexican side of the frontier is mostly a dry riverbed, native cottonwood and willow trees have been planted in ...

New Zealand unveils major military overhaul

Apr 07, 2025 (AFP)

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said it was time for New Zealand to "pull its weight", vowing to lift defence spending from one percent of GDP to more than two...

Artificial glaciers boost water supply in northern Pakistan

Apr 06, 2025 (AFP)

Warmer winters as a result of climate change has reduced the snow fall and subsequent seasonal snowmelt that feeds the valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan, a remote reg...

Deep-dive dinners are the norm for tuna and swordfish, MIT oceanographers find

Apr 03, 2025 (SPX)

MIT oceanographers have found that big fish like tuna and swordfish get a large fraction of their food from the ocean's twilight zone - a cold and dark layer of...

Kazakh lawmaker calls for regulation to protect Caspian Sea

Apr 02, 2025 (AFP)

The Caspian Sea, wedged in between Europe and Asia, is the world's largest inland body of water. It spans 371,000 square kilometres (143,000 sq miles), but has ...

Future of ocean economy at threat, OECD says

Mar 31, 2025 (AFP)

Covering two-thirds of Earth, oceans provide more than three billion people with enough to eat, transport 80 percent of all goods and host cables that carry 98 ...

Macron vows to defend science as host of UN oceans summit

Mar 31, 2025 (AFP)

The third UN Oceans Conference (UNOC) in the French city of Nice in June comes as the United States guts funding for environment programs and retreats from glob...

Fury as Canadian deep-sea firm undermines UN treaty

Mar 29, 2025 (AFP)

Delegates to the International Seabed Authority (ISA) warned that the decision by The Metals Company (TMC) would violate international law and undermine joint m...

Canadian deep sea miner to seek US permit as intl talks drag on

Mar 28, 2025 (AFP)

The Metals Company said the United States offered "the greatest probability of receiving a commercial permit" as negotiations over global regulations drag on. M...

Why has Mexico's water debt opened new battle line with US?

Mar 27, 2025 (AFP)

Mexico's shortfalls, which it blames on an extraordinary drought, led the United States to refuse its neighbor's request for special delivery of water to the bo...

Australian lawmaker shocks senate with dead salmon stunt

Mar 26, 2025 (AFP)

Environmental advocates have questioned the practices of intensive salmon farms in the island state of Tasmania, accusing them of choking waterways with waste a...

3D nanotech blankets offer new path to clean drinking water

Mar 26, 2025 (SPX)

Created through a combination of soft chemistry gels and electrospinning - a technique where electrical force is applied to liquid to craft small fibers - the t...

Deep sea mining impacts visible for 'many decades'

Mar 26, 2025 (AFP)

The new research, published in the journal Nature, comes as countries argue over the creation of the world's first mining code on deep sea extraction at a meeti...

'Unprecedented' mass bleaching drains life from Australian reef

Mar 26, 2025 (AFP)

A months-long marine heatwave had "cooked" the sprawling Ningaloo Reef, ocean scientist Kate Quigley said, part of a UNESCO World Heritage-listed marine park re...

Back in the pink: Senegal salt lake gets its colour back

Mar 25, 2025 (AFP)

No sooner had the news hit social media when Julie Barrilliot, 20, bought a plane ticket to fly over from France. Widely known as the "Pink Lake," Retba is a ma...

Philippines, US kick off army drills ahead of Hegseth visit

Mar 24, 2025 (AFP)

The weeks-long operation, an opening salvo of the broader Balikatan exercises that will next month include the countries' navies and air forces, comes as tensio...

Water-rich Brazil becoming ever drier, report warns

Mar 21, 2025 (AFP)

The country lost 400,000 hectares of aquatic surface from 2023 to last year, according to the latest figures from the MapBiomas monitoring platform -- an area r...

In poor areas of Peru's capital, running water is a dream

Mar 20, 2025 (AFP)

Peru's capital, home to more than 10 million people, is also the world's second largest city located in a desert, after Cairo. It has the Pacific Ocean on one s...

US refuses water request for Mexico in new battleline

Mar 20, 2025 (AFP)

The State Department said it was the first time that the United States has rejected a request by Mexico for special delivery of water, which would have gone to ...

Next-Generation Water Satellite Maps Seafloor From Space

Mar 20, 2025 (SPX)

Ships outfitted with sonar instruments can make direct, incredibly detailed measurements of the ocean floor. But to date, only about 25% of it has been surveyed...