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UN session on high seas biodiversity ends without agreement
Aug 27, 2022 (AFP)
After 15 years, including four prior formal sessions, negotiators have yet to reach a legally binding text to address the multitude of issues facing internation...
Solomon Islands refuses to allow US ship to make port call
Aug 26, 2022 (AFP)
The USCGC Oliver Henry had been scheduled to make a "routine logistics port call" in Honiara, the Coast Guard said Friday in a statement. But the Solomons gover...
Scientists have calculated what can unbalance El Nino
Aug 26, 2022 (SPX)
"Our calculations have shown that the higher the intensity of the noise, the more unpredictable the consequences, the stronger the disturbances, the more intens...
UN high-seas biodiversity treaty struggles to leave port
Aug 26, 2022 (AFP)
After 15 years, including four prior formal sessions, negotiators have yet to reach a legally binding agreement to address the growing environmental and economi...
Solomon Islands threatens to ban foreign journalists
Aug 25, 2022 (AFP)
In a lengthy statement castigating recent media coverage, the office of Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare on Wednesday accused Western journalists of trying to "...
Using seismology for groundwater management
Aug 25, 2022 (SPX)
Now, a new paper published in Nature Communications bridges seismology and hydrology with a pilot application that uses seismometers as a cost-effective way to ...
Hundreds protest lack of water in Iran's drought-hit west
Aug 25, 2022 (AFP)
Iran, a largely arid country, has for years suffered chronic dry spells and heat waves that are expected to worsen with climate change. In the past few months, ...
New evidence shows water separates into two different liquids at low temperatures
Aug 25, 2022 (SPX)
Because the transition has been predicted to occur at supercooled conditions, however, confirming its existence has been a challenge. That's because at these lo...
Leidos to design future medium unmanned undersea vehicle
Aug 25, 2022 (SPX)
"Our decades of experience fielding unmanned technology coupled with our familiarity with the ever-changing needs of the fleet, enables us to provide this criti...
Niger tries artificial rainmaking to ease drought
Aug 25, 2022 (AFP)
"We had to do something about this drought," said Katiellou Gaptia Lawan, head of the national meteorology institute. Niger has been parched by "many extended d...
Rhine river runs dry
Aug 24, 2022 (ESA)
Flowing from the Swiss Alps to the North Sea, the Rhine River is an important shipping route for many products from grains to chemicals to coal. When water leve...
Boiling heat and no water: taps run dry in southern Iraq
Aug 24, 2022 (AFP)
For everything from drinking to bathing and washing dishes and clothes, Ajil and his eight children wait at their home in Al-Aghawat for trucked-in water from t...
'We are divided': lake upends life for tiny Kenyan tribe
Aug 22, 2022 (AFP)
Until recently, they could walk the distance. A road connected the El Molo with the world beyond their tiny village, a lifeline for a secluded community of fish...
Activists fear UN will run out of time on high-seas treaty
Aug 19, 2022 (AFP)
After years of failed discussions as well as postponements due to Covid-19, United Nations member states have been meeting in New York since Monday in a bid to ...
Sleeping giant could end deep ocean life
Aug 19, 2022 (SPX)
"Continental drift seems so slow, like nothing drastic could come from it, but when the ocean is primed, even a seemingly tiny event could trigger the widesprea...
Dutch anglers save fish as Rhine drought bites
Aug 18, 2022 (AFP)
It's not the kind of catch they're used to -- but that's because this time they're helping the government to save the fish from the drought gripping Europe. Eac...
Damaged freighter blocks traffic at drought-hit Rhine
Aug 17, 2022 (AFP)
The vessel is stuck at St Goar and Oberwesel, in between the cities of Mainz and Koblenz, water police said, adding that they were expecting to clear the strick...
UK's largest water provider calls for hose bans
Aug 17, 2022 (AFP)
Thames Water, which supplies 15 million people in London and some surrounding counties, said the ban on hoses would begin on August 24. It asked domestic custom...
Swiss lakes at lowest-ever August levels; UK calls for hose bans
Aug 17, 2022 (AFP)
At the same time, discharge levels on the Rhine, one of Europe's major rivers which starts in the Swiss Alps, have never been so low in August since records beg...
US cuts water supply for some states, Mexico as drought bites
Aug 16, 2022 (AFP)
More than two decades of well below average rainfall have left the river -- the lifeblood of the western United States -- at critical levels, as human-caused cl...
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