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Where on Earth did the water come from
Feb 15, 2022 (SPX)
The source of Earth's water has been a longstanding debate and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists think they have the answer - and they fo...
The Brazil resort town disappearing into the sea
Feb 14, 2022 (AFP)
The Atlantic Ocean advances an average of six meters (nearly 20 feet) a year in this small town north of Rio de Janeiro, which has long been prone to extreme er...
30 nations commit to protect oceans at Brest summit
Feb 11, 2022 (AFP)
The gathering of heads of state and other senior officials as well as companies "has allowed us to firm up many commitments and new coalitions of public and pri...
Fresh hopes for landmark treaty to rescue ocean life
Feb 09, 2022 (AFP)
As plans to protect and restore ecosystems across the world are mainstreamed, conservationists hope an oceans summit in France this week will give fresh momentu...
NGO files complaint over dead fish deluge off French coast
Feb 08, 2022 (AFP)
The NGO last week published footage of what it said were more than 100,000 dead fish floating in the sea some 300 kilometres (186 miles) off the southwestern po...
The abyssal world: the last terra incognita of the Earth surface
Feb 07, 2022 (SPX)
Benthic ecosystems thus underpin two major ecosystem services of planetary importance: the healthy functioning of ocean food-webs and the burial of carbon on ge...
Police operation targets illegal water tapping in Spain
Feb 02, 2022 (AFP)
During the year-long operation, "133 people were arrested or investigated for extracting water through more than 1,533 illegal infrastructure devices", the poli...
Corals doomed even if global climate goals met: study
Feb 01, 2022 (AFP)
An average increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels would see more than 99 percent of the world's coral reefs unable to recover from ever mor...
France limits visitors to save beloved Marseille beach
Jan 31, 2022 (AFP)
The high cliffs and sapphire-blue waters at the Sugiton pebble beach are a main tourist draw for the Calanques National Park, not least because other areas of t...
Iran water protesters attack Afghan vehicles: state media
Jan 28, 2022 (AFP)
Demonstrators from Sistan-Baluchestan province, which shares a frontier with Afghanistan, rallied at a border crossing to protest the issue concerning the Helma...
Australia pumps cash into Great Barrier Reef protection
Jan 28, 2022 (AFP)
Conservative prime minister Scott Morrison announced the Aus$1 billion (US$700 million) nine-year plan, months after narrowly avoiding the reef being placed on ...
US says national water supply 'absolutely' vulnerable to hackers
Jan 27, 2022 (AFP)
"There's inadequate resilience to even a criminal sector," the official said. "The threshold of resilience is not what it needs to be." President Joe Biden has ...
After three years of declines, shark bites are again on the rise
Jan 25, 2022 (SPX)
The number of unprovoked bites in 2021 aligns with the five-year global average of 72 annually but is in stark contrast to the 52 confirmed bites recorded in 20...
'Proud' Tongans determined to rebuild battered homeland after eruption
Jan 22, 2022 (AFP)
The powerful eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano last Saturday triggered a tsunami that crashed across the Tongan archipelago, affecting more than...
UN plans zero-Covid Tonga relief effort
Jan 21, 2022 (AFP)
UN agencies told reporters in Geneva that now Tonga's main runway had been cleared of ash following Saturday's eruption and the ports were opening, methods of b...
Bubbles of methane rising from seafloor in Puget Sound
Jan 20, 2022 (SPX)
The columns of bubbles are especially pronounced off Alki Point in West Seattle and near the ferry terminal in Kingston, Washington, according to a study in the...
'Remarkable' giant coral reef found off Tahiti
Jan 20, 2022 (AFP)
Mapping approximately three kilometres (two miles) long and up to 65 metres (213 feet) wide, UNESCO said it was "one of the most extensive healthy coral reefs o...
Climate crisis drives Mediterranean coral populations to collapse
Jan 20, 2022 (SPX)
According to the study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, coral populations of the Mediterranean -essential for the functioning of th...
Increase in marine heat waves threatens coastal habitats
Jan 19, 2022 (SPX)
The study's authors, Drs. Piero Mazzini and Cassia Pianca of William and Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science, note they saw "significant upward trends i...
Why did ocean productivity decline abruptly 4.6 million years ago?
Jan 19, 2022 (SPX)
Healthy ocean systems contain healthy primary producers, such as the single-celled algae diatoms and coccolithophores, which sustain all other life in the ocean...
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