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EU gives 'red card' to Cameroon over fishing
Jan 05, 2023 (AFP)
The European Commission said in a statement it had identified Cameroon as a "non-cooperating country," earning the "red card" designation, and would ask EU memb...
Coral bleaching causing 'unnecessary' fish fights
Jan 04, 2023 (AFP)
With the future of the world's coral reefs threatened by climate change, a team of researchers studied how a mass bleaching event affected 38 species of butterf...
Cruise passengers stranded by 'marine growth' on hull
Jan 02, 2023 (AFP)
Divers had to remove the "biofoul" -- an accumulation of microorganisms, plants, algae or small animals -- from the 930-berth Viking Orion while it was anchored...
Cambodian leader orders Mekong safe zones to save rare dolphins
Jan 02, 2023 (AFP)
The Irrawaddy dolphins, known for their bulging foreheads and short beaks, once swam through much of the mighty Mekong but in recent decades have been limited t...
After huge storm, Mississippi capital hit by another water crisis
Dec 28, 2022 (AFP)
It was the third major water crisis in less than two years to befall this city of some 150,000 people, most of whom are African American, prompting political de...
'It just dies': Yellow-band disease ravages Thailand's coral reefs
Dec 28, 2022 (AFP)
Yellow-band disease -- named for the colour it turns corals before destroying them -- was first spotted decades ago and has caused widespread damage to reefs in...
Carbon, soot and particles from combustion end up in deep-sea trenches
Dec 22, 2022 (SPX)
In recent years, however, researchers from the Danish Center for Hadal Research (HADAL) at University of Southern Denmark have carried out a number of expeditio...
'Progress destroying nature': Brazil dam fuels fears for river
Dec 21, 2022 (AFP)
Pereira, a member of the Pupekuri Indigenous group, chokes up talking about the impact of Belo Monte, the world's fourth-biggest hydroelectric complex, which lo...
New theory on timing for human settlement of some parts of tropical Pacific
Dec 20, 2022 (SPX)
The first followed a northern route out of what is today the Philippines and the second followed a southern route from Taiwan and New Guinea. People arrived on ...
Shedding light on photosynthesis at sea
Dec 18, 2022 (SPX)
Land plants mainly absorb red and blue light from the sun and use it for photosynthesis. However, only weak blue-green light reaches the ocean floor. Therefore,...
How SERVIR is helping Southeast Asia adapt to variable rainfall
Dec 18, 2022 (SPX)
Meanwhile in Southeast Asia, increasingly variable rainfall is making life difficult for farmers. As rainfall becomes less predictable, dry seasons expand, thre...
Tense Fiji election tied, opposition eyes deal for power
Dec 18, 2022 (AFP)
Incumbent Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama's Fiji First party and an opposition coalition led by Sitiveni Rabuka were both projected to secure 26 seats in the 5...
Dam plans threaten China's migratory bird haven
Dec 18, 2022 (AFP)
But environmentalists warn damming Poyang Lake, a winter stopover for over half a million birds, would threaten the fragile ecosystem and the endangered birds a...
NanoAvionics to supply Constellr with two satellites to help saving 60 billion tons of water globally
Dec 18, 2022 (SPX)
Collaborating since the very early days of the German startup, NanoAvionics has already provided consulting services and a feasibility study for Constellr's ini...
Egypt seeks US help in reviving Ethiopia dam deal
Dec 14, 2022 (AFP)
Visiting Washington for a US-Africa summit, Sisi raised the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who met a day earlier with E...
Latest international water satellite packs an engineering punch
Dec 13, 2022 (JPL)
Years in development, the instrument has been designed to capture very precise measurements of the height of water in Earth's freshwater bodies and the ocean. K...
Researchers shed (laser) light on emerging water treatment technique
Dec 13, 2022 (SPX)
For ferrate to work best, however, it needs to be combined with other compounds or excited by light energy. Now, using a technique involving ultra-fast laser an...
Water-tracking SWOT satellite encapsulated in rocket payload fairing
Dec 12, 2022 (SPX)
The SWOT satellite, or the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission, is now encapsulated in its payload fairing in preparation for launch. Technicians at the ...
Franco-US satellite set for unprecedented survey of Earth's water
Dec 12, 2022 (AFP)
For NASA and France's space agency CNES, which have worked together in the field for 30 years, it's a landmark scientific mission with a billion dollar budget. ...
Assessing El Nino 'flavors' to unravel past variability, future impact
Dec 12, 2022 (SPX)
"We used a unique set of climate model simulations that span the Holocene, the past 12,000 years, and accounted for changes in the frequency of El Nino flavors,...
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