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Iran warns Afghanistan in water dispute over river dam
May 18, 2023 (AFP)
Speaking on a visit to drought-parched southeastern Iran, President Ebrahim Raisi said: "I warn the rulers of Afghanistan to immediately give the people of Sist...
Raw deal: English consumers stuck with sewage cleanup bill
May 18, 2023 (AFP)
But campaigners expressed outrage that the billions of pounds promised to upgrade infrastructure would be passed on to consumers already struggling with higher ...
Half world's largest lakes and reservoirs drying up: study
May 18, 2023 (AFP)
"Lakes are in trouble globally, and it has implications far and wide," Balaji Rajagopalan, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and co-author of th...
Water woes shake up Spain's election campaign
May 17, 2023 (AFP)
Spain's water resources are becoming exhausted while its irrigation needs keep rising, "an unsustainable situation", said Felipe Fuentelsaz of WWF Spain. The Do...
Myanmar residents hunt for water as UN asks junta for access
May 17, 2023 (AFP)
Cyclone Mocha tore through Myanmar and Bangladesh on Sunday, bringing lashing rain and winds of 195 kilometres per hour (120 mph) that collapsed buildings and t...
Patagonia's underwater defense against climate change
May 16, 2023 (AFP)
Kelp forests are crucial for battling climate change by capturing carbon, regulating the sea's PH level, maintaining the structure of coasts and are home to mul...
International Sea Level Satellite Spots Early Signs of El Nino
May 15, 2023 (ESA)
The data shows Kelvin waves - which are roughly 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 centimeters) high at the ocean surface and hundreds of miles wide - moving from west to e...
InVADER mission to test its robotic laser divebot on a deep-sea expedition
May 12, 2023 (SPX)
"Our technology will revolutionize oceanography like digital photography disrupted film photography," said Pablo Sobron, SETI Institute research scientist and p...
Belgium learns to share its beaches with sleepy seals
May 12, 2023 (AFP)
The reason? During the long period of Covid restrictions between early 2020 and early 2022, the sea mammals found the sandy stretches to be calm, without the us...
Australian bushfires likely contributed to multiyear La Nina
May 11, 2023 (SPX)
The research was led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and in Science Advances. La Nina events tend to impact the winter climate over North...
How desert dust nourishes the growth of phytoplankton at sea
May 11, 2023 (JPL)
In a new study published May 5 in the journal Science, a team of researchers from Oregon State University, the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and NASA...
US opens embassy in Tonga, expanding Pacific reach
May 10, 2023 (AFP)
Tonga, a Polynesian archipelago of about 100,000 people, is the latest in a string of Pacific island states targeted in a renewed US diplomatic push into the re...
W.House confirms Biden to visit Papua New Guinea after G7 summit
May 09, 2023 (AFP)
Biden will also meet with Pacific Island leaders as he seeks to deepen cooperation on issues "such as combating climate change, protecting maritime resources, a...
The 'water cops' of Las Vegas make city a model in drought-hit US
May 08, 2023 (AFP)
Some 2.3 million people live in the arid Las Vegas Valley, and 40 million tourists are drawn each year to its giant casinos and hotels. Yet because Nevada is al...
Why are there so few insects in the ocean?
May 07, 2023 (SPX)
Insects are some of the most successful organisms on the planet. They are said to make up the most biomass of all terrestrial animals and have a significant imp...
April heat in western Med 'almost impossible without climate change'
May 05, 2023 (AFP)
The "exceptional early heatwave" involved "local temperatures up to 20 degrees hotter than normal and April records being broken by up to 6 degrees", said the r...
Colombia nabs over 300 tonnes of illegally caught fish in a decade
May 05, 2023 (AFP)
Most of the confiscations were made in the Pacific, around remote Malpelo and Gorgona islands, two protected natural parks with a great deal of threatened biodi...
French region's drought prompts pool sale ban
May 05, 2023 (AFP)
Ecological Transition Minister Christophe Bechu said the Pyrenees-Orientales could not afford to allow people to fill their pools while the region was suffering...
Record sea surface heat sparks fears of warming surge
May 04, 2023 (AFP)
Oceans absorb most of the heat caused by planet-warming gases, causing heatwaves that harm aquatic life, altering weather patterns and disrupting crucial planet...
Joint venture announced to build 'underwater space station of the ocean'
May 04, 2023 (UPI)
PROTEUS will be built off the Caribbean island of Curaçao, NOAA and Proteus Ocean Group announced Wednesday after signing a formal agreement last month. The ne...
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