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Greece fears water shortages after warmest winter ever
Jul 15, 2024 (AFP)
"Would you like some water? Turn off the tap!" one public service announcement in Athens implores; another daily spot urges the capital's residents to not fill ...
Study Reveals Gulf Stream's Potential Vulnerability to Climate Change
Jul 15, 2024 (SPX)
Published in Nature, the study indicates that about 20,000 years ago, the Gulf Stream was stronger than it is today due to more intense winds across the subtrop...
Belgrade's sewage problem festers despite pledges
Jul 15, 2024 (AFP)
"We build impressive buildings where everything looks pristine, all glass and fancy. Yet right next to them, sewers discharge directly into the river," cyclist ...
Iraqis protest over summer blackouts and water shortages
Jul 15, 2024 (AFP)
Decades of war have left the country's infrastructure in a pitiful state, with power cuts worsening the blistering summer when temperatures often reach 50 Celsi...
Canada designates largest marine protected zone
Jul 12, 2024 (AFP)
The 133,000-square-kilometer (51,000-square-mile) zone was announced in a joint statement by Canada's department of fisheries and oceans and leaders of four Fir...
Swimmer rescued 80 km off Japan after 36-hour ordeal
Jul 11, 2024 (AFP)
The local coast guard launched a search and rescue operation after the alarm was raised for the Chinese national in her 20s in the central Shizuoka region on Mo...
UK hardens stance over indebted water supplier
Jul 11, 2024 (AFP)
The announcement comes as the newly-elected Labour government could decide whether taxpayers should renationalise Britain's biggest water supplier after it avoi...
Surfing NASA's Internet of Animals: Satellites Study Ocean Wildlife
Jul 11, 2024 (SPX)
Gilmour, a scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley, conducts marine ecology and conservation studies using data collected by the...
Water shortages worsen as funding dries up for northwest Syria displaced
Jul 11, 2024 (AFP)
"Water is life, it is everything... and now we are being deprived of water," Naasan told AFP from a camp near Sarmada, close to the Turkish border. "It's like t...
Paris dream of swimming in the Seine part of its Olympics vision
Jul 11, 2024 (AFP)
But floating on your back under the Eiffel Tower could very soon become reality thanks to investments linked to this month's Paris Olympics. Weather permitting,...
Observing Ice Structures with Antifreeze and Refrigerated Microscopy
Jul 11, 2024 (SPX)
When ice interacts with liquid, such as when sliding on ice, forming snowflakes, or licking ice cream, the surface of the ice is coated with liquid water. Under...
Warming Baltic Sea: a red flag for global oceans
Jul 10, 2024 (AFP)
This should be a red flag, they warned, noting that other coastal marine zones around the world are trending in the same direction. "We are at the forefront of ...
A Tunisian village's fight for running water
Jul 10, 2024 (AFP)
"We just need something to drink," said Ribh Saket, 56, under the punishing summer sun as she placed a jerrycan beneath a makeshift tap hooked into the water su...
Stormy weather wreaks havoc in S.Africa's Western Cape
Jul 09, 2024 (AFP)
The Cape Town region has been battered by several cold fronts over the past few days, with mountainous areas experiencing rare heavy snowfalls. The Western Cape...
UK's biggest water supplier piles on debt
Jul 09, 2024 (AFP)
Britain's biggest water supplier avoided a state rescue under the previous Conservative government, leaving the newly-elected Labour administration to decide wh...
Dam breach triggers floods in central China
Jul 06, 2024 (AFP)
State news agency Xinhua said the breach occurred on Friday afternoon in part of an embankment on the shore of Dongting Lake in central China's Hunan province. ...
Senegal to scrap Saudi desalination plant deal: govt
Jul 04, 2024 (AFP)
Faye had pledged to review and potentially cancel deals signed by his predecessor Macky Sall, whom he accused of damaging the country's sovereignty by selling o...
Calgary in western Canada lifts extreme water rationing
Jul 02, 2024 (AFP)
The restrictions were brought in suddenly on June 6 after a major pipe broke. Some 1.6 million residents of the city in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains woke ...
China builds new presidential palace in Pacific's Vanuatu
Jul 02, 2024 (AFP)
At an official handover ceremony conducted in front of a towering China Aid billboard, Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai announced the opening of the nation...
Ancient Greek sanctuary slowly sinks into the Aegean Sea
Jul 02, 2024 (AFP)
Surrounded by piercing azure waters, Delos' 2,000-year-old buildings offer a microcosm of information on daily life during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Bu...
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