WATER WORLD

News About The Oceans of Earth

6,978 articles

Experts Warn of Potential Ocean Epidemic Risk from Migrating Species
Nov 04, 2024 (SPX)
A recent report titled "Navigating the Future VI" discusses these risks, emphasizing that we currently lack comprehensive knowledge of oceanic biodiversity comp...
Thousands take to London streets demanding cleaner water
Nov 03, 2024 (AFP)
Environmental activist and singer Feargal Sharkey and Fast Show comedian Paul Whitehouse were among those joining The March for Clean Water, which was backed by...
FAU receives DOE grant to explore offshore ocean current energy near Palm Beach
Oct 30, 2024 (SPX)
In partnership with The City of Lake Worth Beach Electric Utility, 3U Technologies, 48 North Solutions, IDOM Incorporated, Braid Theory, and the European Marine...
Oceanographers record the largest predation event ever observed in the ocean
Oct 30, 2024 (SPX)
This is what MIT and Norwegian oceanographers observed recently when they explored a wide swath of ocean off the coast of Norway during the height of spawning s...
No 'island of garbage' here, Puerto Rico's new marine reserve
Oct 30, 2024 (AFP)
The announcement at the UN's COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, came amid an uproar over a comedian's remarks at an election rally for Donald Trump on...
Giant clam declared critically endangered after the latest assessment
Oct 29, 2024 (SPX)
The assessment, led by Ruiqi Li, a postdoctoral researcher at the CU Museum of Natural History, prompted the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUC...
Global network of undersea robots unveils hidden depths of phytoplankton biomass
Oct 29, 2024 (SPX)
To overcome these observational limitations, a global network of Biogeochemical-Argo (BGC-Argo) floats has recently been deployed. Developed as an enhancement t...
Scientists warn of possible collapse of Atlantic currents
Oct 28, 2024 (AFP)
In an open letter addressed to the Nordic Council, which is meeting this week in Iceland's capital Reykjavik, the scientists said they wanted to bring attention...
Kiribati elects pro-China president Maamau for third term
Oct 26, 2024 (AFP)
According to the New Zealand High Commission in Kiribati, Maamau received 20,676 votes, equating to about 55 percent support at the polls, to head off nearest c...
BHP, Vale agree to pay $30bn compensation for Brazil dam disaster
Oct 25, 2024 (AFP)
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attended the signing of the deal over the collapse of a tailings dam at a mine in the southeastern town of Mariana, which tr...
Ecuador extends drought-induced power cuts to 14 hours a day
Oct 25, 2024 (AFP)
"We have taken the painful but responsible decision to change the rationing plan, increasing it from eight to 14 hours a day," Energy and Mines Minister Ines Ma...
Marshes provide cost-effective coastal protection
Oct 25, 2024 (SPX)
Now, a study from MIT shows that protecting and enhancing salt marshes in front of protective seawalls can significantly help protect some coastlines, at a cost...
Kiribati's pro-China president eyes third term
Oct 25, 2024 (AFP)
Maamau, 64, retained his seat by a landslide in August parliamentary elections that were dominated by concerns about the cost of living, rising sea levels and r...
Seabed disturbance releases carbon and reduces oxygen
Oct 25, 2024 (SPX)
According to senior researcher Christian Lonborg from Aarhus University's Institute for Ecoscience, "Researchers have long assumed that physical disturbances of...
Argentina seeks culprit after official reference to 'Falklands'
Oct 24, 2024 (AFP)
Argentina, which fought a war with Britain over the archipelago in 1982, calls the islands in the South Atlantic Ocean the Islas Malvinas. "With regard to the m...
A simpler, more efficient device for harvesting water from the air
Oct 24, 2024 (SPX)
As more than 2 billion people around the world are estimated to lack access to clean drinking water, improving conventional ways to collect such a valuable reso...
In South Africa, water shortages are the new reality
Oct 23, 2024 (AFP)
"It's been going on for five days," she said, lamenting shortages affecting South Africa's largest city where temperatures are rising with the beginning of summ...
Western Australian coastlines reveal a complex history of sea level rise
Oct 23, 2024 (SPX)
Scientists from Curtin's Timescales of Mineral Systems Group, based in the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, gathered sediment samples from multiple locat...
Weather-altering El Nino dates back at least 250 million years
Oct 22, 2024 (SPX)
The study found that the oscillation between El Nino and its colder counterpart, La Nina, existed during the time when Earth's continents were in very different...
BHP goes on trial in London over 2015 toxic Brazil mine disaster
Oct 21, 2024 (AFP)
The High Court in London will examine over several months whether BHP was partly liable for the 2015 collapse of a dam at a mining waste site in Brazil. The rup...
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.