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Study links slower renewal of deep North Atlantic waters to climate change
Jan 20, 2026 (SPX)
The research team focused on the North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a current system that helps ventilate large parts of the global ocean. By co...
China bids to host secretariat of new high seas treaty
Jan 17, 2026 (AFP)
China "has decided to present its candidature of the city of Xiamen to host the Secretariat" of the treaty, the Chinese mission to the United Nations wrote in a...
Trump offers Egypt to mediate on Ethiopia dam
Jan 16, 2026 (AFP)
Trump -- who in his first term sent tensions spiraling by suggesting that Egypt may bomb the project -- offered his services as he hailed Egyptian President Abd...
Pendulum device taps power from ocean currents
Jan 15, 2026 (SPX)
The device consists of a cylindrical tube suspended from an axis so that it behaves like a pendulum when exposed to flow. As water passes around the cylinder, i...
Japan aims to dig deep-sea rare earths to reduce China dependence
Jan 12, 2026 (AFP)
Scientific drilling boat called the Chikyu left Shimizu Port in Shizuoka around 9:00 am (0000 GMT) for the remote island of Minami Torishima in the Pacific, whe...
ENSO drives synchronized shifts in global water extremes
Jan 12, 2026 (SPX)
In a study in AGU Advances, scientists at The University of Texas at Austin report that the El Nino Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, has been the dominant influen...
Ankara city hall says water cuts due to 'record drought'
Jan 10, 2026 (AFP)
Dam reservoir levels have dropped to 1.12 percent and taps are being shut off for several hours a day in certain districts on a rotating schedule in Ankara, for...
Japan to test deep sea rare earth mining to cut China reliance
Jan 09, 2026 (AFP)
A Japanese deep-sea scientific drilling boat called the Chikyu will set sail for the remote island of Minami Torishima in the Pacific, where surrounding waters ...
Experts say oceans soaked up record heat levels in 2025
Jan 09, 2026 (AFP)
The heat that has accumulated in the oceans last year increased by approximately 23 zettajoules -- an amount equivalent to nearly four decades of global primary...
Hydrogen from organic carbon in deep sediment hosted hydrothermal systems
Jan 07, 2026 (SPX)
Many vent systems with elevated hydrogen have been linked to serpentinization, a process in which hot, mineral-rich fluids react with ultramafic rocks in the cr...
2025 warmest year on record in North Sea: German maritime agency
Jan 07, 2026 (AFP)
"In 2025, the North Sea reached an average temperature of 11.6C, the highest value in the BSH data series since 1969," Tim Kruschke, head of the BSH's climate t...
Conservationists sue Trump admin over inaction on horseshoe crabs
Jan 05, 2026 (AFP)
Sometimes called "living fossils," horseshoe crabs have patrolled the world's shallow coastal waters for more than 450 million years, outlasting the dinosaurs. ...
'Tuna King' pays record $3.2 mn for bluefin at Tokyo auction
Jan 05, 2026 (AFP)
Dave Gershman at the Pew Charitable Trusts' international fisheries team used news of the auction to highlight that stocks of Pacific bluefin tuna were improvin...
Neural network sharpens satellite ocean color in complex coastal waters
Jan 01, 2026 (SPX)
Coastal waters contain suspended sediments, dissolved organic matter, and highly variable aerosols that make satellite observations difficult and can degrade es...
Viral resistant bacteria still help drive deep ocean carbon transport
Dec 19, 2025 (SPX)
Researchers investigated mechanisms of phage resistance in the marine bacterium Cellulophaga baltica and assessed how they affect the bacterium's role in captur...
Salt rejecting hydrogel design targets long life solar desalination
Dec 18, 2025 (SPX)
The team synthesized a superhydrated PTMAO/polyacrylamide (PAAm)/polypyrrole (PPy) hydrogel, referred to as PTAP, that reaches an evaporation rate of 2.35 kg m-...
SAR11 ocean bacteria form distinct ecological teams across coastal and open waters
Dec 18, 2025 (SPX)
Published in Nature Communications, the research shows that SAR11 is not a single uniform population but instead divides into stable ecological groups that func...
Weak La Nina reshapes Pacific sea levels and seasonal weather
Dec 17, 2025 (SPX)
La Nina events arise when stronger-than-normal easterly trade winds enhance the upwelling of cold, deep water in the eastern tropical Pacific, lowering sea surf...
Brazil megacity Sao Paulo struck by fresh water crisis
Dec 16, 2025 (AFP)
Home to 22 million people, it is the most populous urban area in Latin America. Sao Paulo is often ranked alongside cities like Mexico City, Cape Town and Chenn...
US says Mexico agrees to water treaty obligations
Dec 13, 2025 (AFP)
Trump said Mexico owed 800,000 acre-feet of water to the US and demanded it release a quarter of this amount by December 31 or be hit with a new five percent ta...
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