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West Antarctica ice sheet collapse may stabilise northern ocean currents
Jan 31, 2023 (SPX)
The work by Sacha Sinet and colleagues, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, is published in Geophysical ...
Kiribati confirms return to strategic Pacific bloc
Jan 30, 2023 (AFP)
The central Pacific country of some 120,000 people quit the forum in July last year, saying the concerns of Micronesian members were being ignored. New Fijian P...
Russian polar research vessel docks in Cape Town amid protests
Jan 29, 2023 (AFP)
The Akademik Aleksandr Karpinskiy icebreaker is on its way to the Antarctic as part of a scientific expedition launched late last year, according to Russian med...
Elevated design keeps solar stills salt-free
Jan 27, 2023 (SPX)
Inspired by the floating solar still in "The Life of Pi" movie, KAUST professor Qiaoqiang Gan has developed several nanomaterials and thermal isolation processe...
Outlook for the blue economy
Jan 27, 2023 (SPX)
A new project led by researchers at Texas A and M University is seeking to understand how changes to the climate and oceans will impact fisheries in the U.S. an...
Fiji suspends national police chief
Jan 27, 2023 (AFP)
The sidelined police chief, Sitiveni Qiliho, is regarded as a close supporter of former prime minister Frank Bainimarama, who ruled the Pacific nation for 16 ye...
$500 mn pledged for jihadist-torn Lake Chad
Jan 27, 2023 (AFP)
The money pledged by the Lake Chad Basin High Level Conference will "support a coordinated, complementary and overall regional response to the crisis," they sai...
NASA measures underground water flowing from Sierra to Central Valley
Jan 24, 2023 (JPL)
The Central Valley encompasses only 1% of U.S. farmland but produces 40% of the nation's table fruits, vegetables, and nuts annually. That's only possible becau...
New pathogen likely culprit for mass crab deaths: UK study
Jan 20, 2023 (AFP)
The customs-free zone in Teesside is one of several planned that are aimed at showing off Britain's "post-Brexit freedoms" in trade, according to the government...
Simulations and experiments reveal unprecedented detail about water's motion in salt water
Jan 20, 2023 (SPX)
"There is more to salt solutions than meets the eye," said Alexej Jerschow, a professor in NYU's Department of Chemistry and one of the study's senior authors. ...
Graves sink, fisheries shrink as climate change hits Fiji
Jan 18, 2023 (AFP)
She piles old rubber car tyres under the coconut trees that line the beachfront, hoping this makeshift seawall will at least buy some time. The 70-year-old beli...
Two thirds of reef sharks and rays risk extinction: study
Jan 17, 2023 (AFP)
Coral reefs, which harbour at least a quarter of all marine animals and plants, are gravely menaced by an array of human threats, including overfishing, polluti...
Fiji military warns of 'concern' over new PM's reforms
Jan 17, 2023 (AFP)
Fiji has been shaken by four coups in the past 35 years, and the possibility of military intervention loomed over a tight general election last month. Rabuka's ...
Eating one wild fish same as month of drinking tainted water: study
Jan 17, 2023 (AFP)
The invisible chemicals called PFAS were first developed in the 1940s to resist water and heat, and are now used in items such as non-stick pans, textiles, fire...
Moving water and earth
Jan 12, 2023 (SPX)
An MIT team has come up with a better formula to calculate how much sediment a fluid can push across a granular bed - a process known as bed load transport. The...
Trapped sediment robbing world's large dams of vital water storage capacity
Jan 12, 2023 (SPX)
The global loss from original dam capacity foreseen by mid-century - from ~6,300 billion to ~4,650 billion m3 in 2050, a difference of ~1,650 billion m3 - rough...
Petition against shark-fin trading passes 1 mn names
Jan 11, 2023 (AFP)
The "Stop Finning - Stop the Trade" campaigners call on the European Union to end the trade in the bloc "including the import, export and transit of fins other ...
Scientists sound alarm as ocean temperatures hit new record
Jan 11, 2023 (AFP)
Climate change has increased surface temperatures across the planet, leading to atmospheric instability and amplifying extreme weather events such as storms. Oc...
Trapped sediment in dams 'endangers' water supplies: UN
Jan 11, 2023 (AFP)
A new study from the UN University's Institute for Water, Environment and Health found that, by mid-century, dams and reservoirs will lose about 1.65 trillion c...
Changing ocean circulation intensifies extreme events in the Indian Ocean
Jan 06, 2023 (SPX)
The newly published study shows that this is also accompanied by a strengthening of the precipitation pattern in the Indian Ocean region. Here, East Indian Ocea...
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