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Nations aim to ink deep sea mining rules by 2025

Jul 22, 2023 (AFP)

The ISA, an intergovernmental body tasked with protecting the seabed, and its member states have spent the last decade trying to hash out a mining code for the ...

Around 2,000 penguins wash up dead on Uruguay coast

Jul 22, 2023 (AFP)

The Magellanic penguins, mostly juveniles, died in the Atlantic Ocean and were carried by currents to Uruguayan shores, said Carmen Leizagoyen, head of the Envi...

New tech brings resilience to small-town hydropower

Jul 21, 2023 (SPX)

The new technologies showcased, developed by INL and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Water Power Technologies Office, demonstrate how communities w...

Spain's drought-hit tourism sector seeks to save water

Jul 21, 2023 (AFP)

With Spain at the forefront of the climate crisis in Europe, its key tourism sector is facing growing pressure to reduce its environmental impact and become mor...

Heat-struck Mediterranean is climate change 'hot spot'

Jul 20, 2023 (AFP)

The beaches, seafood and heritage sites in the region spanning parts of southern Europe, northern Africa and western Asia are under threat. Here are five key th...

Private firms scour booming Nevada desert for water profits

Jul 19, 2023 (AFP)

A giant, natural underground aquifer containing enough water to supply 25,000 homes annually is fed by rainfall and snowmelt from the surrounding volcanic mount...

Solomons PM attacks 'unneighbourly' China questions

Jul 17, 2023 (AFP)

During a July 9-15 visit to China, the prime minister signed a raft of deals including an agreement allowing Beijing to maintain a police presence in the Pacifi...

New Zealand calls on China to curb tensions in 'contested' Pacific

Jul 17, 2023 (AFP)

China is rapidly expanding its diplomatic, economic and military footprint in the Pacific, often jostling for influence with the United States and its allies. N...

London's new 'super sewer' to end Thames pollution blight

Jul 16, 2023 (AFP)

Here, a world away from the city's busy streets, thousands of engineers and construction staff have spent the past seven years creating the biggest-ever upgrade...

Building workers in torrid Texas say water-break ban is 'a law that kills'

Jul 15, 2023 (AFP)

The crushing heatwave that has blanketed much of the southern United States for nearly a month has taken a particularly high toll on construction workers, who a...

Solomon Islands says China police pact not a 'threat'

Jul 14, 2023 (AFP)

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare inked a raft of deals during a trip to China this week, including an agreement allowing Beijing to extend its police presence i...

Panama seizes six tons of illegally traded shark fins

Jul 14, 2023 (AFP)

The black-market shark fin trade is estimated to be worth $500 million annually, and Panama last year spearheaded international efforts to protect many endanger...

Iraqis beat summer heat by swimming in shrinking Tigris river

Jul 14, 2023 (AFP)

Near a bridge linking the east of the city to the west, Abed stood in the middle of the river, but the water only came up to his waist. "I live here in Adhamiya...

Ocean animals vacate areas both around and outside deep-sea mining operations

Jul 14, 2023 (SPX)

The International Seabed Authority (ISA), which has authority over seafloor resources outside a given country's jurisdiction, has yet to finalize a set of deep-...

OceanMind selects Spire Global's satellite ship-tracking data to combat illegal fishing

Jul 13, 2023 (SPX)

OceanMind supports fisheries enforcement officials, seafood buyers and non-governmental organizations to understand the compliance of fishing activities globall...

Egypt, Ethiopia agree to reach deal on controversial dam in four months

Jul 13, 2023 (AFP)

The massive $4.2-billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has been at the centre of a regional dispute ever since Ethiopia broke ground on the project in ...

Gripes in Grimsby over Brexit fishing failure

Jul 12, 2023 (AFP)

Some 70 percent of people in the town voted for Brexit, hoping that the UK's departure from the European Union would boost its flagging fortunes. But seven year...

Heading to the North Atlantic to study the world's largest waterfall

Jul 12, 2023 (SPX)

This phenomenon plays a decisive role in the Atlantic thermohaline circulation - and therefore in the global climate - and is key to the functioning of the deep...

Race against time to find fresh water for Uruguay's capital

Jul 12, 2023 (AFP)

For weeks already, the 1.8 million residents of the Montevideo metropolitan area -- home to more than half the South American country's total population -- have...

Considerable but unsustainable water supply from thawing permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau in a changing climate

Jul 12, 2023 (SPX)

"For the study of permafrost hydrology changes, the ground surface observations have to be combined with physically-based models to examine what is happening be...