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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...
Nestle faces mineral water problems in drought-hit France
May 04, 2023 (AFP)
The group's mineral water subsidiary, Nestle Waters, which owns brands such as Vittel and Perrier, said it had suspended operations at two wells used to produce...
Dead rivers, flaming lakes: India's sewage failure
May 03, 2023 (AFP)
"We stay inside our homes. We fall sick if we go out," the 21-year-old told AFP in the Delhi neighbourhood of Seelampur, where open gutters packed with plastic ...
World should prepare for El Nino, new record temperatures: UN
May 03, 2023 (AFP)
The UN's World Meteorological Organization said it now estimated there was a 60-percent chance that El Nino would develop by the end of July, and an 80-percent ...
Randy Koster: Modeling the Ways of Water
May 03, 2023 (SPX)
Koster works in the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO), where a team of experts model the Earth's system, including the atmosphere, ocean, land surf...
On the Edge: NASA's last S-MODE mission studies the ocean's surface
May 02, 2023 (JPL)
NASA has taken to the seas and skies to study the unique environment at the ocean's surface, where marine ecosystems intersect with our planet's complex atmosph...
'Nightmare': Stinky seaweed smothers French Caribbean beaches
May 02, 2023 (AFP)
"It's a nightmare," the 61-year-old said. The pristine sand and turquoise Caribbean waters of his coastal village are usually a magnet for tourists at this time...
Europe's produce at stake in Spain's water war
May 02, 2023 (AFP)
The tap that turned the arid semi-desert of southeastern Spain into Europe's market garden may be about to be turned off, threatening the intensive farms that f...
The science behind the life and times of the Earth's salt flats
May 02, 2023 (SPX)
"You can't protect the salars if you don't first understand how they work," says Sarah McKnight, lead author of the research that appeared recently in Water Res...
Solo rower launches Europe trek to expose river pollution
May 01, 2023 (AFP)
Christophe Gruault, 58, set off from Poland's capital Warsaw in a customised rowing boat six metres long and only 60 centimetres wide, with hopes to reach Paris...
Kennedy Space Center prepares for greater sea-rise problems
Apr 28, 2023 (UPI)
More than a decade ago, the ocean started to encroach on federally protected beaches, penetrating to within some 2,000 feet of critical infrastructure. Now, wit...
Deadly invader devastating Venezuelan coral reefs
Apr 27, 2023 (AFP)
The Unomia stolonifera, native to Indonesia and the Indo-Pacific, is a pinkish type of pulse coral so called for its dance-like movements in the ocean currents....
Long distance voyaging among the Pacific Islands
Apr 24, 2023 (SPX)
In order to better understand the relationship between these Polynesian societies of the western Pacific, Melanesia and Micronesia - often referred to as "Polyn...
Climate change, farmers draining ancient Balkan lake
Apr 22, 2023 (AFP)
Straddling the borders of Albania, Greece and North Macedonia, Lake Prespa is believed to be home to thousands of species that rely on the water and its surroun...
Even as temperatures rise, this hydrogel material keeps absorbing moisture
Apr 20, 2023 (SPX)
But one material appears to uniquely resist heat's drying effects. MIT engineers have now found that polyethylene glycol (PEG) - a hydrogel commonly used in cos...
Scientists estimate sea kelp generates $500 bn a year
Apr 18, 2023 (AFP)
The study published in Nature Communications offered a rare gauge of the contribution from the tall seaweed, which is threatened by climate change, valuing it a...
UN high seas treaty expected to be adopted in June
Apr 18, 2023 (AFP)
The text of the high seas treaty was finally agreed in March, after 15 years of discussions and four years of formal negotiations. The landmark accord would est...
Water, water everywhere: Wet winter boosts California's reservoirs
Apr 18, 2023 (AFP)
A series of atmospheric rivers -- high altitude ribbons of moisture -- chugged into the western United States, dousing a landscape that had been baked dry by ye...
El Nino and +IOD expected to severely impact global weather in coming months
Apr 18, 2023 (SPX)
El Nino, characterized by the warming of the equatorial Pacific Ocean, and the positive IOD, marked by warmer sea surface temperatures in the western Indian Oce...
Bangladeshis pray for rain as temperatures soar
Apr 17, 2023 (AFP)
Police said more than 500 worshippers congregated on the Aftabnagar playing ground, where popular TV cleric Shaikh Ahmadullah led the prayers. "They held the pr...
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