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Wildlife summit to vote on shark protections

Nov 24, 2022 (AFP)

The proposal would place dozens of species of the requiem shark and the hammerhead shark families on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in End...

Barcelona to impose water restrictions due to drought

Nov 22, 2022 (AFP)

The city and its surrounding area will as of Friday be put under a "drought alert", joining other parts of the northeastern region of Catalonia. "Months of litt...

Off Florida, underwater burial ground offers aquatic lifeline

Nov 19, 2022 (AFP)

With its graceful concrete arches, columns, plaques and other monuments and artwork covered in sea anemones, coral and algae, the Neptune Memorial Reef has tran...

Beloved panda gifted by China to Taiwan dies

Nov 19, 2022 (AFP)

Tuan Tuan and his breeding mate Yuan Yuan were given to Taiwan by Beijing in late 2008, at a time when relations between the two were more cordial. China views ...

Israel and Jordan agree to clean up polluted Jordan River

Nov 17, 2022 (AFP)

The Memorandum of Understanding inked at the COP27 stresses the need to rehabilitate the river system which, experts say, has lost roughly half of its biodivers...

For island nations, giving up on climate fund 'not an option'

Nov 16, 2022 (AFP)

Financing has become a hot-button issue at the COP27 climate talks, with developing nations demanding rich polluters pay for climate-change linked calamities th...

Rising sea level could exceed estimates for US coasts

Nov 16, 2022 (JPL)

By 2050, sea level along contiguous U.S. coastlines could rise as much as 12 inches (30 centimeters) above today's waterline, according to researchers who analy...

Study sheds light on rebirth code of Lop Nur

Nov 14, 2022 (SPX)

On November 3, 2022, Scientific Reports published a research paper entitled "Active water management brings reliability restore to degraded lakes in dry regions...

Let the court decide: Vanuatu's climate push raises hopes

Nov 13, 2022 (AFP)

The COP27 climate summit in Egypt has been dominated by calls for nations to redouble their efforts to cut emissions and for rich polluters to finally provide t...

A thirsty COP27 climate summit plagued by glitches

Nov 12, 2022 (AFP)

Organising a UN climate conference -- which brings together up to 35,000 people from 195 countries each year -- is a world-class logistical challenge, and veter...

Nile is in mortal danger, from its source to the sea

Nov 09, 2022 (AFP)

Human-driven climate change, pollution and exploitation are putting existential pressure on the world's second-longest river, which half a billion people depend...

Rethinking mountain water security

Nov 08, 2022 (SPX)

Current information on how the communities which depend on water from mountain snow and ice will be affected by climate change is limited, according to new rese...

Eager beaver: dams improve quality of river water hit by climate change

Nov 08, 2022 (AFP)

The findings -- discovered almost by accident -- offered a "rare bright spot" in an otherwise bleak landscape of climate change news, the lead author told AFP. ...

The mystery of how Earth acquired its water

Nov 07, 2022 (SPX)

Now researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have combined two complementary techniques - X-ray imaging and neutron imaging - to...

Jailed Egypt dissident on 'water strike' as UK vows support

Nov 06, 2022 (AFP)

A major figure in the 2011 revolt that toppled longtime president Hosni Mubarak, British-Egyptian Abdel Fattah is currently serving a five-year sentence for "br...

Solomons handed water cannons, police gun shipments from China, Australia

Nov 04, 2022 (AFP)

The Solomons -- a sprawling archipelago in the South Pacific -- has become a hotspot in a diplomatic tussle which sees the United States and Australia seeking t...

Choking on factory waste: the Nile's rising scourge

Nov 02, 2022 (AFP)

AFP journalists watched as staff at a tannery shovelled garbage into the river, while dirty water flowed into the Nile through plastic pipes leaving a brown she...

In Bolivia, Lake Poopo's 'water people' left high and dry

Nov 02, 2022 (AFP)

Felix Mauricio, a member of the Uru Indigenous community, used to be a fisherman. Now 82, he gazes over a barren landscape and chews coca leaf to suppress the h...

Underwater heat 'inferno' ravages Mediterranean corals

Nov 02, 2022 (AFP)

Holding naked branches of gorgonian coral, Tristan Estaque of marine conservation group Septentrion Environnement is returning despondent from an exploratory di...

Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq's mighty river drying up

Oct 31, 2022 (AFP)

But today the Tigris is dying. Human activity and climate change have choked its once mighty flow through Iraq, where -- with its twin river the Euphrates -- it...