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Electric boat goes airborne for cleaner ocean voyage
Feb 17, 2023 (AFP)
But instead of a roaring engine thrusting the boat along, its electric motor barely makes a sound. Such electric boats with computer-guided hydrofoils may soon ...
Climate change could cause mass exodus of tropical plankton
Feb 17, 2023 (SPX)
The finding raises concerns that rapid ocean warming could force the plankton to move away from the tropics, which would negatively affect ocean ecosystems, inc...
How did ancient extreme climate affect sand in the deep sea?
Feb 16, 2023 (SPX)
By synthesizing global data on deep-sea sand deposits, researchers identified a signal or "fingerprint" of extreme climate change from about 50 million years ag...
Iraq marshlands campaigner freed from kidnappers
Feb 16, 2023 (AFP)
Jassim al-Assadi, 65, head of environmentalist group Nature Iraq, was seized on February 1 as he drove to the capital Baghdad on the main motorway from the sout...
Chicken of the sea
Feb 14, 2023 (SPX)
The key is in the feed, said UC Santa Barbara marine ecologist Ben Halpern, director of UCSB's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, and an aut...
Rising seas threaten exodus of 'biblical' scale, warns Guterres
Feb 14, 2023 (AFP)
"The danger is especially acute for nearly 900 million people who live in coastal zones at low elevations -- that's one out of ten people on Earth," Antonio Gut...
Canada says no seabed mining unless new 'rigorous' rules
Feb 10, 2023 (AFP)
The interministerial statement was released as talks wrapped up in Vancouver of the fifth International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC5), which began la...
Artificial sweetener as wastewater tracer
Feb 09, 2023 (SPX)
The sugar substitute acesulfame is one of the most commonly used sweeteners in Europe. It is almost 200 times sweeter than sugar and temperature-stable, making ...
Biosensors change the way water contamination is detected
Feb 09, 2023 (SPX)
The new biosensor device developed at Northwestern has been field tested in rural Kenya, providing evidence that water testing for fluoride can be easily used o...
Swiss native fish in troubled waters
Feb 08, 2023 (AFP)
Out of 71 native fish and jawless fish, 34 are under threat of extinction in Swiss waters, like the critically-endangered European eel, and nine are no longer f...
Warming oceans threaten sea turtle reproduction: study
Feb 08, 2023 (AFP)
The climate change-fuelled phenomenon could cause local extinctions of the already threatened reptiles, which have a long breeding cycles and are slower to adap...
One in 3 schoolchildren lacks access to drinking water: UN
Feb 08, 2023 (AFP)
"Globally, almost one in three schools has no drinking water from an improved source," the UN cultural agency UNESCO said in a new report. "One in three schools...
On the water with Myanmar's 'river cleaners'
Feb 07, 2023 (AFP)
Around 10 others join her in the dawn light, driven to work the foetid grey-brown murk of Pazundaung creek by the economic crisis that has gripped Myanmar since...
Engineers devise a modular system to produce efficient, scalable aquabots
Feb 07, 2023 (SPX)
Now, researchers at MIT and their colleagues - including one from the original RoboTuna team - have come up with an innovative approach to building deformable u...
Prehistoric human migration in Southeast Asia driven by sea-level rise, NTU Singapore study reveals
Feb 07, 2023 (SPX)
The Malay Peninsula and the islands of Sumatra, Borneo, and Java were originally part of a large landmass of rainforests and coastal mangroves in the South Asia...
Protecting 30 percent of oceans a huge challenge for the planet
Feb 04, 2023 (AFP)
On the heels of the historic biodiversity agreement signed at COP15 in Montreal late last year, about 3,000 officials, scientists, NGOs and Indigenous groups ar...
France destroys seaside flats threatened by coastal erosion
Feb 03, 2023 (AFP)
When the four-storey building was built behind the beach in the southwestern Gironde region in 1967, it stood 200 metres (220 yards) away from the shoreline. Bu...
Far-off storms fuel sneaker waves along Pacific Northwest coast
Feb 01, 2023 (SPX)
Sneaker waves, also known as wave runup events, can be perceived as a mini-tsunami because the waves surge much farther up the beach than anticipated, often cat...
California submits rival Colorado River water plan
Feb 01, 2023 (AFP)
Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming were given until January 31 to come up with a plan to slash the amount of water they take fr...
US states miss water share agreement deadline
Jan 31, 2023 (AFP)
Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming were given until January 31 to come up with a plan -- or face a solution imposed by Washingt...
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