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Sea cows, abalone, pillar coral now threatened with extinction
Dec 09, 2022 (AFP)
These gentle cousins of the manatee graze on seagrass in shallow coastal waters, and are an important source of ecotourism in their tropical habitats. Despite t...
Palau leader warns of 'catastrophic' consequences of deep-sea mining
Dec 09, 2022 (AFP)
Mining companies want to scrape vast sections of the Pacific Ocean for metals such as nickel and cobalt -- used in electric car batteries -- and are planning to...
Water Mission to gauge Alaskan rivers on front lines of climate change
Dec 09, 2022 (JPL)
So when the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite launches this month from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base, it's only natural that Alaska...
US sanctions China-based fishing firms over rights abuses
Dec 09, 2022 (AFP)
This marks the first time the Treasury Department has designated an entity listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange, Pingtan Marine, it said in a statement. "Treasur...
NASA scientists map global salt marsh losses and their carbon impact
Dec 08, 2022 (SPX)
Salt marshes are coastal grasslands that are regularly flooded by salty seawater, and they are both an indicator of and protector against climate change. They b...
'Big crime': Pleas for wartime protection of Black Sea
Dec 08, 2022 (AFP)
Bayram Ozturk spoke to AFP one day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of waging an "ecocide" that was devastating marine life across th...
At least 2,500 seals found dead on Russia's Caspian Sea coast
Dec 05, 2022 (AFP)
Investigators are still working to explain why the seals washed up on beaches in Dagestan, southern Russia. Authorities are leaning towards suffocation from gas...
Chile and Bolivia agree on river row, UN court says
Dec 01, 2022 (AFP)
The fractious South American neighbours had been battling at the UN's top court since 2016 over the Silala River, which flows for five miles (eight kilometres) ...
Chile-Bolivia river row set for UN court ruling
Dec 01, 2022 (AFP)
Chile took its South American neighbour to the UN's top court in 2016, asking the ICJ to declare the Silala an "international water course" and give it equal ri...
French fishing ban unites fishermen, biodiversity activists
Dec 01, 2022 (AFP)
Almost two decades after the ban, Cap Roux, a coastal tip of the Esterel mountain range near the resort of Saint-Raphael on the Mediterranean coast, is a biodiv...
Climate 'tragedy': Vanuatu to relocate 'dozens' of villages
Dec 01, 2022 (AFP)
Climate Change Minister Ralph Regenvanu said dealing with the impact of global warming was a major challenge facing Vanuatu's 300,000 inhabitants who live on a ...
'Triple-dip' La Nina could continue into March: UN
Nov 30, 2022 (AFP)
The current La Nina weather phenomenon -- the cooling of surface temperatures which can cause widespread impacts on global weather conditions -- started in Sept...
200 fishermen rescued from drifting ice in US lake
Nov 29, 2022 (AFP)
A member of the group called emergency services Monday when they realized the people ice fishing -- a popular winter sport in the northern US state known as the...
Great Barrier Reef risks 'in danger' World Heritage listing
Nov 29, 2022 (AFP)
A UNESCO-tasked report said on Monday warming seas and agricultural pollution had put the reef at risk and that its resilience had been "substantially compromis...
All regions experienced water extremes in 2021: UN
Nov 29, 2022 (AFP)
Large areas of the planet recorded drier than normal conditions in 2021, the UN's World Meteorological Organization said in its first annual State of Global Wat...
Houston under boil water order after treatment plant failure
Nov 28, 2022 (AFP)
Houston, the biggest city in Texas and the fourth-largest in the United States, is home to 2.2 million people and is an important base for the energy, aeronauti...
Canada unveils new Asia-Pacific strategy with eye on China
Nov 28, 2022 (AFP)
The government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has based its strategy on five major planks: promoting peace and security, notably by sending a warship to the r...
There's an ocean of difference in our water needs
Nov 25, 2022 (SPX)
"The science has never supported the old eight glasses thing as an appropriate guideline, if only because it confused total water turnover with water from bever...
Scientists discover five new species of black corals deep below the pacific off the Great Barrier Reef
Nov 25, 2022 (SPX)
Black corals can be found growing both in shallow waters and down to depths of over 26,000 feet (8,000 meters), and some individual corals can live for over 4,0...
'Where are the mackerel?' Alarm as Bosphorus fish stocks crash
Nov 25, 2022 (AFP)
"Clear off!" they shout from the shore, impatient to get their hooks back into the depths of the strait that runs through Istanbul. "I have been here since 6 am...
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