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Solomon Islands pro-China PM says not standing for new term
Apr 29, 2024 (AFP)
His withdrawal followed inconclusive April 17 elections that led his party to choose foreign minister Jeremiah Manele as its parliamentary leader -- in effect i...
Energy trade proposals offer solutions to Nile river conflict
Apr 29, 2024 (SPX)
Spanning 11 countries in East Africa, the Nile river is a critical source of water, energy, and economic sustenance. However, conflicts over its resources have ...
'It swept everything': Kenya villagers count toll of dam deluge
Apr 29, 2024 (AFP)
Scores of people have been killed over the March-May wet season in Kenya as heavier than usual rainfall pounds East Africa, compounded by the El Nino weather pa...
G7 to set up water coalition to tackle crises: French minister
Apr 29, 2024 (AFP)
The Group of Seven industrialised nations meeting for two-day talks in Turin, Italy will commit in a final statement Tuesday to "work on the water resource issu...
Colombia nears resumption of electricity sales to Ecuador
Apr 29, 2024 (AFP)
After "technical reviews, we are on the point of resuming sales of energy to Ecuador and help resolve its rationing problems," President Gustavo Petro, whose ow...
Norway moves forward on controversial deep-sea mining
Apr 29, 2024 (AFP)
Already Western Europe's largest oil and gas producer, Norway could become the first country to authorise seabed mining, arguing the importance of not relying o...
Philippine settlement submerged by dam reappears due to drought
Apr 26, 2024 (AFP)
The ruins in the middle of Pantabangan Dam in Nueva Ecija province are a tourist draw, even as the region swelters in extreme heat. Parts of a church, municipal...
NASA study reveals comprehensive global river water accounting
Apr 26, 2024 (SPX)
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have determined that the average global river water volume from 1980 to 2009 was about 53...
The Indian villagers who lost their homes to the sea
Apr 26, 2024 (AFP)
Behra is among hundreds of people from the disappearing and largely abandoned coastal village of Satabhaya, whose displaced former residents have been officiall...
2 million bottles of Perrier ordered destroyed by French agency
Apr 25, 2024 (AFP)
The announcement of the destruction was the latest blow for Swiss food giant Nestle, whose French water subsidiary is under a criminal investigation for alleged...
Paris holds its breath for Olympic swimming events in murky Seine
Apr 25, 2024 (AFP)
Last August, the swimming marathon test events were cancelled because the water was too dirty, as were the swimming legs on two of the four days of triathlon an...
Shanghai Ocean University unveils manta ray-inspired bionic fish
Apr 24, 2024 (SPX)
Chen Xinjun, head of the university's School of Marine Living Resources and Management, described the comprehensive bionic approach: "Based on the behavior of t...
How light can vaporize water without the need for heat
Apr 24, 2024 (SPX)
And yet, it turns out, we've been missing a major part of the picture all along. In a series of painstakingly precise experiments, a team of researchers at MIT ...
How UK's biggest water supplier sank into crisis
Apr 23, 2024 (AFP)
So how did Thames Water, serving about 15 million people across London and surrounding areas, end up in such a perilous financial state? In a controversial move...
Norway women bring seaweed to culinary heights in Europe
Apr 23, 2024 (AFP)
"We have the cleanest and clearest waters in the world. We're very lucky that we have this really important resource growing right outside our doorstep," Erikse...
As Olympics near, Macron says Seine will be clean enough for him
Apr 23, 2024 (AFP)
Macron was responding after Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera unveiled a rainwater treatment plant on the Marne, which flows into the Seine just east of Pari...
Pro-China Solomons PM fails to secure outright majority
Apr 22, 2024 (AFP)
Manasseh Sogavare's Our Party has won 12 seats with six contests still in play, according to provisional results reported by the public broadcaster -- well shor...
A leader in US seaweed farming preaches, teaches and builds a wider network
Apr 22, 2024 (AFP)
Seen from a boat, GreenWave's farm seems unimpressive -- little more than lines of white and black buoys, a few hundred yards (meters) off the Connecticut coast...
Rising sea levels threaten coastal infrastructure integrity worldwide
Apr 22, 2024 (SPX)
Shellie Habel, the study's lead author and a coastal geologist at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), explained, "The rising of ground...
ESA advances four Earth Explorer mission concepts: CryoRad, ECO, Hydroterra+, Keystone
Apr 22, 2024 (SPX)
The call for new mission ideas began in early 2023, and from 17 submissions, ESA's Advisory Committee for Earth Observation (ACEO) recommended four for further ...
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