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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...
Tibetan Plateau water stores under threat: study
Aug 15, 2022 (AFP)
The reservoirs of the Tibetan Plateau, which covers much of southern China and northern India, are fed by monsoons and currently supply most of the water demand...
UN resumes talks on high-seas treaty amid growing concerns
Aug 15, 2022 (AFP)
A host of NGOs and affected countries say the pact is urgently needed to improve environmental stewardship over the vast, yet largely unregulated area as it fac...
UN resuming talks on high-seas treaty amid growing concerns
Aug 15, 2022 (AFP)
A host of NGOs and affected countries say the pact is urgently needed to improve environmental stewardship over the vast, yet largely unregulated, area as it fa...
Poaching of 'status symbol' date mussels threatens Italy's coasts
Aug 12, 2022 (AFP)
They're seeking neither buried treasure nor smuggled contraband, but evidence of the hunt for date mussels, a forbidden mollusc turned status symbol whose poach...
Rhine drops below crucial level, impacts river transport
Aug 12, 2022 (AFP)
The water dropped below the 40-centimetre (15.7-inch) reference level in Kaub, a noted bottleneck for shipping where the Rhine runs narrow and shallow. That lev...
California plans to boost water supply as drought bites
Aug 11, 2022 (AFP)
Unveiling an "aggressive" new strategy to combat a dwindling water supply, Gavin Newsom said he wants to bolster ageing infrastructure to keep pace with the rap...
Salt of the earth: Israeli artist's Dead Sea sculptures
Aug 11, 2022 (AFP)
The lowest point on Earth is also Landau's studio where she submerges objects -- from a ballet dress to a lampshade's wire frame -- for weeks until they are mag...
Low Rhine deepens Germany's energy crisis
Aug 11, 2022 (AFP)
The prospect of severe, longer-term limits to traffic spells a new headache for the industries lined up on the river's banks and threatens to further strain Ger...
Rainwater unsafe to drink due to chemicals: study
Aug 10, 2022 (AFP)
Commonly known as 'forever chemicals' because they disintegrate extremely slowly, PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) were initially found in packaging, ...
World's biggest ice sheet could cause massive sea rise without action: study
Aug 10, 2022 (AFP)
Researchers at Durham University concluded that if global greenhouse emissions remain high, the melting East Antarctica Ice Sheet (EAIS) could cause nearly half...
In scorched UK, source of River Thames dries up
Aug 10, 2022 (AFP)
The driest start to a year in decades has shifted the source of this emblematic English river several miles downstream, leaving scorched earth and the occasiona...
Solomons PM moves to delay election, change constitution
Aug 09, 2022 (AFP)
After months of speculation, Manasseh Sogavare has formally put a Constitution Amendment Bill to parliament that would delay next year's election -- citing the ...
Endangered sharks, rays caught in protected Med areas: study
Aug 09, 2022 (AFP)
The three types of elasmobranch are among the species most threatened by overfishing. While often landed as by-catch -- or caught in nets of boats seeking to la...
Mexico wants to reduce beer production in drought-hit areas
Aug 08, 2022 (AFP)
"That's not to say that we'll no longer produce beer. I mean, beer won't be produced in the north," Lopez Obrador told reporters, although he stopped short of o...
Drought forces water use rethink in Spain
Aug 08, 2022 (AFP)
"We must be extremely careful and responsible instead of looking the other way," Spain's Minister for the Ecological Transition Teresa Ribera said recently, abo...
US warns Pacific islands of struggle against coercive regimes
Aug 07, 2022 (AFP)
With China's military conducting drills around Taiwan and Russia bombarding Ukraine, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman hit out at a new crop of world lead...
Biden to host White House Pacific island summit
Aug 06, 2022 (AFP)
Visiting Tonga, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said the leaders would be invited to Washington for a meeting and dinner late in the month. "This meetin...
Making hydropower plants more sustainable
Aug 05, 2022 (SPX)
Eventually the family began going to a remote river in Colorado each summer. The river forked in two; one side was managed by ranchers who destroyed natural fea...
Great Barrier Reef sees fragile coral comeback
Aug 04, 2022 (AFP)
Portions of the vast UNESCO heritage site showed a marked increase in coral cover in the last year, reaching levels not seen in 36 years of monitoring, the Aust...
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