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Iraqis clean up river as first green projects take root
Apr 10, 2022 (AFP)
With boots and gloves, they pick up soggy trash, water bottles, aluminium cans and muddy styrofoam boxes, part of a green activist campaign called the Cleanup A...
New England renewables + Canadian hydropower
Apr 08, 2022 (SPX)
In general, the options being discussed include nuclear power, natural gas with carbon capture and storage (CCS), and energy storage technologies such as new an...
NASA finds new way to monitor underground water loss
Apr 07, 2022 (JPL)
The research team studied California's Tulare Basin, part of the Central Valley. The team found that the key to distinguishing between these underground sources...
Ocean vital signs
Apr 07, 2022 (SPX)
"But there's a lot of uncertainty in that number," says Ryan Woosley, a marine chemist and a principal research scientist in the Department of Earth, Atmospheri...
Digicel staff leave Papua New Guinea after $100 mn tax bill
Apr 06, 2022 (AFP)
The Papua New Guinean government last month passed a one-off levy on any company with a market share greater than 40 percent in telecoms or banking, affecting o...
In a southern US capital, an unending water crisis
Apr 05, 2022 (AFP)
Cheryl Brown, the principal at Wilkins Elementary -- where 98 percent of the 400 students are African American and most come from underprivileged backgrounds --...
Advanced Navigation launches AI-powered Micro AUV
Apr 05, 2022 (SPX)
Hydrus is an autonomous subsea robot that combines the most advanced navigation, sonar and communication capabilities of any AUV. This advanced technology is co...
Idaho National Laboratory seeks partner for small hydropower field demonstration
Apr 05, 2022 (SPX)
INL conducted its first field demonstration for the U.S. Department of Energy's Water Power Technologies Office in April 2021 with Idaho Falls Power, a municipa...
Solomons leader rules out hosting China military base
Apr 01, 2022 (AFP)
Sogavare, echoing a fiery speech he made to Honiara's parliament this week, dismissed concerns the deal would allow China a base in the South Pacific and labell...
Pacific leader urges Solomons to rethink China pact
Mar 31, 2022 (AFP)
President David Panuelo voiced "grave security concerns about this proposed agreement" in a March 30 letter released by his government Thursday, citing rising t...
Solomon Islands' PM calls China security deal backlash 'insulting'
Mar 29, 2022 (AFP)
In an impassioned speech, Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said he found it "very insulting... to be branded as unfit to manage our sovereign affairs or have ot...
Senegal's water-stressed capital faces difficult future
Mar 29, 2022 (AFP)
"We wake up at 4 or 5 am to get water, says Sidy Fall, 44, in his kitchen in a working-class neighbourhood, filled with large bottles of stored water. If he doe...
Solomon Islands PM says China security deal 'ready for signing'
Mar 29, 2022 (AFP)
In an impassioned speech to parliament, Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare offered little detail on the final deal beyond saying that there was "no intention what...
Australia declares 'mass bleaching' at Great Barrier Reef
Mar 25, 2022 (AFP)
The world's largest coral reef system, stretching for more than 2,300 kilometres (1,400 miles) along the northeast coast of Australia, is showing the harmful ef...
Australia warns against Solomons-China pact
Mar 24, 2022 (AFP)
The proposals -- which have not yet been adopted -- would allow Chinese security and naval deployments to the crisis-hit Pacific island nation. The United State...
Water supply fears as Morocco hit by worst drought since 1980s
Mar 23, 2022 (AFP)
"The country hasn't seen a situation like this since the start of the 1980s," said water policy expert Abderrahim Hendouf. While it was usually farmers who bore...
International Sea Level Satellite Takes Over From Predecessor
Mar 23, 2022 (SPX)
Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in November 2020, the satellite is continuing a nearly 30-year legacy started by the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite, which beg...
UN weighs listing Great Barrier Reef as 'in danger'
Mar 21, 2022 (AFP)
Higher-than-average temperatures have again caused severe bleaching in parts of the reef, authorities confirmed last week, dashing hopes a cooler La Nina summer...
High seas treaty talks fail to reach a deal
Mar 19, 2022 (AFP)
This fourth round of negotiations since 2018 -- preceded by a decade of preliminary talks -- was meant to create vast marine reserves to prevent biodiversity lo...
Great Barrier Reef suffers 'widespread' bleaching event
Mar 18, 2022 (AFP)
Surveillance flights over the reef revealed damage due to heat stress ranging from minor to severe bleaching across the 2,300-kilometre (1,243-mile) network of ...
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