WATER WORLD

News About The Oceans of Earth

6,978 articles

French government slams 'eco-terrorism' as water protesters dig in
Oct 31, 2022 (AFP)
Clashes with security forces marked the launch of the protest Saturday near Sainte-Soline in the western Deux-Sevres department, where officials said 4,000 peop...
Pacific aid surges as China, US vie for influence
Oct 30, 2022 (AFP)
An annual study released by Australia's Lowy Institute on Monday showed financial assistance to the Pacific Islands rose 47 percent in 2020 versus the year befo...
For water-stressed Iraq, wells threaten race to the bottom
Oct 30, 2022 (AFP)
The war-scarred nation and major crude exporter is one of the world's five countries most impacted by key effects of the climate crisis, says the United Nations...
More than 6,000 baby turtles are released in Peru
Oct 29, 2022 (AFP)
To achieve that, wildlife officials collect turtle eggs and transfer them from natural beaches of the Amazon basin, to artificial beaches where they are artific...
Tanzania starts rationing water due to drought
Oct 27, 2022 (AFP)
The 5.5 million inhabitants of the Indian Ocean city will go without piped water for 24 hours on alternating days, the Dar es Salaam Water and Sanitation Author...
Timely study on rising groundwater offers hope for drought-stricken East Africa
Oct 21, 2022 (SPX)
The study, led by the University of Bristol, looked at changes in rainfall within the two rainy seasons in the Horn of Africa - a region hard hit by frequent dr...
Satellite to study Earth's water arrives at launch site
Oct 21, 2022 (JPL)
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, where teams will begin final preparations for the ...
Scientists warn of a rare third-year La Nina
Oct 20, 2022 (SPX)
With its strong preference to peak during boreal winter and rapidly decay in spring (known as "phase-locking"), and quasi-periodic oscillations of 2-7 years, hi...
Warming waters 'key culprit' in Alaska crab mass die-off
Oct 18, 2022 (AFP)
According to an annual survey of the Bering Sea floor carried out by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, estimates for the crustaceans' total n...
S-MODE Field Campaign deploys to the Pacific Ocean
Oct 17, 2022 (JPL)
NASA's Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) is converging on a patch of sea 110 nautical miles off the coast of San Francisco. Over the course of 28...
Health of coral reefs written in the sand - and visible via satellite
Oct 17, 2022 (SPX)
It turns out that sand aprons, deposits of sand along the shore of a lagoon that are ubiquitous in coral reefs, can give a reliable estimate of how coral reefs ...
Scientists scour global waters testing ocean plankton and pollution
Oct 15, 2022 (AFP)
The survey was carried out from the 33-year-old Tara research schooner, which returned to her home port of Lorient on France's western coast at the weekend. Fro...
Why the Salton Sea is turning into toxic dust
Oct 11, 2022 (SPX)
As the lake dries up, the concentration of salt and chemicals in the remaining water has increased dramatically, causing a mass die-off of fish and birds, inclu...
As oceans rise, are some nations doomed to vanish?
Oct 10, 2022 (AFP)
The prospect is no longer science fiction as global warming gathers pace, posing an unprecedented challenge to the international community, and threatening enti...
To save California coasts, scientists turn to the humble oyster
Oct 10, 2022 (AFP)
Thousands of the tiny mollusks have begun growing on the artificial reefs dropped in the bay as part of a plan to mitigate damage in California's far south. "We...
Heat-resilient Red Sea reefs offer last stand for corals
Oct 10, 2022 (AFP)
Most shallow water corals, battered and bleached white by repeated marine heatwaves, are "unlikely to last the century," the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
Solomons PM tells Australia no Chinese military presence
Oct 07, 2022 (AFP)
The island nation has been at the centre of a diplomatic tussle in the southern Pacific Ocean between the United States, Australia and their allies on one side ...
Taking salt out of the water equation
Oct 07, 2022 (SPX)
"Water desalination membranes should simultaneously exhibit high water flux and high salt rejection," says Yu Han, who led the study. Carbon nanomaterials, such...
Study reveals daily surface temperature of 160 lakes over Tibetan Plateau past 40 Years
Oct 06, 2022 (SPX)
The research team integrated remote sensing and numerical model to reconstruct the daily water surface temperature series of 160 lakes across the Tibetan Platea...
Sydney smashes annual rainfall records
Oct 06, 2022 (AFP)
By early afternoon, Sydney had registered its highest annual rainfall total on record -- 2,216 millimetres -- with some 86 days still left until the end of the ...
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.