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Water-starved Saudi confronts desalination's heavy toll
Sep 17, 2023 (AFP)
The Jazlah plant in Jubail city applies the latest technological advances in a country that first turned to desalination more than a century ago, when Ottoman-e...
Libya's burst dams had decades-old cracks: official
Sep 16, 2023 (AFP)
Prosecutor general Al-Seddik Al-Sour has announced an investigation into the circumstances leading to the collapse, culminating in the catastrophic flash flood ...
Huge groupers, the joy of Florida divers, are now 'vulnerable'
Sep 16, 2023 (AFP)
"There's nowhere else you can have an experience with a fish that big while you're diving -- and being this close to it," Dr. James Locascio, a marine biologist...
Water shortage in Central Asia worsening, Uzbekistan warns
Sep 15, 2023 (AFP)
Central Asian countries such as Uzbekistan face a myriad of environmental problems, including decades of Soviet-era pollution, soil degradation and a scarcity o...
Court suspends shark cull in French Pacific archipelago
Sep 15, 2023 (AFP)
Authorities in the Sud province of the archipelago -- which lies around 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) east of Australia -- had given the go-ahead for the hunt in...
Dominican Republic shuts border with Haiti over water spat
Sep 15, 2023 (AFP)
Since the beginning of the month, the Dominican Republic's government has complained about Haitian plans to build a canal on the shared Massacre River, saying i...
'Huge' overfishing problem shows need to ratify ocean treaty: Greenpeace
Sep 14, 2023 (AFP)
The non-governmental network is calling on as many countries as possible to sign the treaty next week at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Finali...
'We're going to sink': Hundreds abandon Caribbean island home
Sep 13, 2023 (AFP)
Surrounded by idyllic clear waters, the densely populated island of Carti Sugtupu off Panama's north coast has barely an inch to spare with houses crammed toget...
French Pacific archipelago divided over shark hunt
Sep 11, 2023 (AFP)
But environmentalists are on the side of the sharks, saying the local government's order to cull the animals has led to indiscriminate killing and harm to marin...
Small islands take ocean protection case to UN court
Sep 11, 2023 (AFP)
The island states are asking the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) to determine if carbon dioxide emissions absorbed by the oceans can be co...
Ethiopia says completes filling of Nile Renaissance mega-dam
Sep 10, 2023 (AFP)
The announcement came just a fortnight after the three countries resumed negotiations, after a lengthy break, on an agreement which takes account of the water n...
Palestinian water woes highlight dashed hopes of Oslo Accords
Sep 10, 2023 (AFP)
The Israeli-Palestinian dispute centres on land but also on the water resources that sustain life in the sun-parched land between the Mediterranean Sea and the ...
Philippines, Australia sign strategic partnership deal
Sep 08, 2023 (AFP)
The agreement was finalised following a meeting between Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Manila. Albanese...
Australia PM confirms China visit, Li says ready to resume exchanges
Sep 07, 2023 (AFP)
The announcement by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on the sidelines of a Southeast Asia summit in Indonesia came after a years-long break in relatio...
Adapt now as hotter marine heatwaves hit: scientists
Sep 06, 2023 (AFP)
The naturally occurring weather pattern originates in the Pacific Ocean and drives increased heat worldwide, bringing drought to some areas and heavy rains else...
'We're going to sink': hundreds abandon Caribbean island home
Sep 06, 2023 (AFP)
Surrounded by idyllic clear waters, the densely populated island of Carti Sugtupu off Panama's north coast has barely an inch to spare with houses crammed toget...
Six bn tonnes of sand extracted from world's oceans each year: UN
Sep 05, 2023 (AFP)
Launching the first ever global data platform on sediment extraction in marine environments, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), warned that the sc...
Japan boosts fishing sector aid after Fukushima water release
Sep 04, 2023 (AFP)
The announcement came as more than 100 fishermen and locals living near Fukushima were to file a lawsuit this week seeking to stop the discharge. The 20.7 billi...
Scientists Predict 10 pct Dryland Expansion Globally by 2100
Sep 04, 2023 (XNA)
The water storage reduction is dominated by precipitation and evapotranspiration variability, and could reach 41 to 84 percent by 2100, according to the finding...
Minnows blamed for algae-filled French, Spanish lakes
Sep 03, 2023 (AFP)
"When one sees these fish in the mountain lakes, we see a disturbed ecosystem," said Adeline Loyau, a biologist and researcher at the National Polytechnic Insti...
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