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New wave: sea power turned into energy at Los Angeles port
Sep 04, 2025 (AFP)
This innovative installation may hold one of the keys to accelerating a transition away from fossil fuels that scientists say is necessary if the world is to av...
Scientists tune in to the surf's hidden signals
Sep 03, 2025 (SPX)
Yet these are but a sample of the sounds that come from the coast. Most of the acoustic energy from the surf is far too low in frequency for us to hear, traveli...
Cooling La Nina may return in coming months: UN
Sep 02, 2025 (AFP)
La Nina is a naturally occurring climate phenomenon that cools surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. It brings changes in wi...
New wave: Sea power turned into energy at Los Angeles port
Aug 31, 2025 (AFP)
This innovative installation may hold one of the keys to accelerating a transition away from fossil fuels that scientists say is necessary if the world is to av...
Can a giant seawall save Indonesia's disappearing coast?
Aug 28, 2025 (AFP)
The encroaching ocean laps against a road in Karminah's village, threatening her home on Indonesia's Java island, where the government says it has a plan to hol...
'Perfect storm': UK fishermen reel from octopus invasion
Aug 28, 2025 (AFP)
When veteran fisherman Brian Tapper checked his 1,200 crab pots in waters off southwest England during this year's crabbing season, he got a series of unwelcome...
Maldives revokes shark fishing ban after decades
Aug 27, 2025 (AFP)
The Maldives, a luxury holiday destination and top diving spot in the Indian Ocean, will lift a decades-old ban on shark fishing, the president's office said on...
1 in 4 people lack access to safe drinking water: UN
Aug 26, 2025 (AFP)
More than two billion people worldwide still lack access to safely-managed drinking water, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning that progress towards univer...
France, Switzerland agree on Rhone, Lake Geneva water management
Aug 26, 2025 (AFP)
Indonesia, US and allies launch joint military drills
Aug 25, 2025 (AFP)
Indonesia and the United States launched joint military drills on Monday that will last more than a week, joining allies from 11 countries in exercises aimed at...
Plant life role in shaping river patterns reconsidered by Stanford research
Aug 25, 2025 (SPX)
The study reveals that the resemblance arises from how sandy point bars migrate. In meandering rivers without vegetation, these bars often move downstream, leav...
Documents show New Zealand unease over Chinese warships in South Pacific
Aug 22, 2025 (AFP)
China set off alarm bells in New Zealand when it dispatched powerful warships on unprecedented missions in the South Pacific without explanation, according to m...
Philippines, Australia aim to sign new defence pact in 2026
Aug 22, 2025 (AFP)
The Philippines and Australia plan to sign a new pact to develop the Southeast Asian nation's military infrastructure, their defence chiefs said on Friday, as t...
'Cyborg jellyfish' could aid in deep-sea research, inspire next-gen underwater vehicles
Aug 21, 2025 (SPX)
The glow of neon lights illuminates their translucent, bell-shaped bodies as they expand and contract rhythmically, their graceful tentacles flowing in wavelike...
Pollution hotspots at England's most famous lake need 'urgent' action
Aug 19, 2025 (AFP)
Hotspots of bacteria and phosphorus at England's most famous lake must be addressed urgently, the authors of a study into its water quality warned on Tuesday. V...
Australia probes Nauru-China business deal
Aug 19, 2025 (AFP)
Australia was Tuesday investigating whether Pacific microstate Nauru breached a security treaty by inking a lucrative business deal with a Chinese company. Naur...
Hong Kong arrests 2 over suspected $6.7 mln water scam
Aug 18, 2025 (AFP)
Hong Kong police said Monday they have arrested two people over a suspected scam involving a water supplier that may have cheated the government in a contract w...
Tourism deal puts one of Egypt's last wild shores at risk
Aug 18, 2025 (AFP)
In Egypt's Wadi al-Gemal, where swimmers share a glistening bay with sea turtles, a shadowy tourism deal is threatening one of the Red Sea's last wild shores. O...
Drought, dams and diplomacy: Afghanistan's water crisis goes regional
Aug 17, 2025 (AFP)
Over four decades of war, Afghanistan wielded limited control over five major river basins that flow across its borders into downstream neighbouring nations. Bu...
Women bear brunt of Afghanistan's water scarcity
Aug 17, 2025 (AFP)
In a remote Afghan village, women strap yellow plastic jerry cans to donkeys and travel every day down a dusty canyon to collect as much water as they can. The ...
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