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Iraqi fishermen caught in net of water frontiers
Dec 06, 2021 (AFP)
About 15 kilometres (nine miles) from where the mighty Tigris and the Euphrates rivers merge and flow out to the Gulf lies the fishing port of Al-Faw. The port ...
Albanian bunkers ravaged by rising tides as erosion takes toll
Dec 05, 2021 (AFP)
The shores of the Balkan country are among the most affected in Europe by erosion, according to experts, who blame climate change and uncontrolled urbanisation ...
NASA-supported Study Confirms Importance of Southern Ocean for Absorbing CO2
Dec 03, 2021 (SPX)
Recent research had raised uncertainty about just how much atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) these icy waters absorb. Those studies relied on measurements of oce...
Breakthrough sensing technology explores seafloor, opens US oceans to green economy
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
Impossible Sensing's breakthrough technology, VIPER, brings, for the first time, robotic laboratories to the bottom of the ocean to identify and quantify the lo...
Headwater refuges
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
Despite the importance of these waterways, scientists still don't fully understand how they respond to fires. That's why a team at UC Santa Barbara and the Nati...
Climatic changes and overfishing depleted Baltic herring long before industrialization
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
In the case of cod, climate change has been proven to play a decisive role, with rising temperatures, the cod's capacity to reproduce decreases. Stocks of herri...
Climate change is making one of the world's strongest currents flow faster
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
Researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and UC Riverside us...
Space dust analysis could solve mystery of the origins of Earth's water
Dec 01, 2021 (SPX)
In a new paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, a team of researchers from the UK, Australia and America describe how new analysis of an ancient aster...
Sentinel-6 returning most precise data ever on sea level
Dec 01, 2021 (ESA)
Launched on 21 November 2020, Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich uses the latest radar altimetry technology, developed by ESA, to advance the long-term reco...
Space dust study could explain how water originated on Earth
Nov 29, 2021 (UPI)
An international team of researchers studied samples taken from the asteroid Itokawa by the Japanese space probe Hayabusa in 2010, according to a paper publishe...
What next for riot-hit Solomon Islands?
Nov 27, 2021 (AFP)
So what's next for the troubled South Pacific nation? - Keeping the peace - Embattled Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare -- who narrowly avoided his Honiara home ...
Iran riot police deployed after 67 arrested in Isfahan
Nov 27, 2021 (AFP)
Security forces fired tear gas during the clashes with stone-throwers in the protest in the dry bed of the Zayadneh Rood river that crosses the city, Fars and I...
Why rioters are burning and looting in the Solomon Islands
Nov 25, 2021 (AFP)
The recipe for the crisis is a complex mix of youth unemployment, anger over anti-coronavirus controls, historical inter-island rivalries and a festering disput...
France ordered to pay compensation for anti-dam protester's death
Nov 25, 2021 (AFP)
Remi Fraisse, a 21-year-old botany student, died after being hit by the grenade during clashes between the police and opponents of a planned dam in Sivens, near...
Fishing nations agree better protection for mako shark
Nov 24, 2021 (AFP)
At the conclusion of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) this week, countries agreed "to end overfishing immediately and...
World Bank warns over looming plunge in Iraq water resources
Nov 24, 2021 (AFP)
Water is a crucial issue for the oil-rich country of 40 million that is facing an acute energy crisis, compounded by increasingly severe droughts and low rainfa...
Satellite launched to assist in ocean surveillance
Nov 24, 2021 (XNA)
The Gaofen 3-02 satellite was launched by a Long March 4C carrier rocket at 7:45 am and entered a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 755 kilometers, the Ch...
University of Guam awarded $715K for aquifer research using NASA technology
Nov 22, 2021 (SPX)
Hanom Fresko yan Acho' Tasi, which translates to "Freshwater and Coral," is a three-part project that will produce maps of coastal freshwater discharge, fine-tu...
New protests in Iran over water shortage
Nov 21, 2021 (AFP)
The march came two days after thousands of protesters converged on the central city of Isfahan to vent their anger after the lifeblood river dried up due to dro...
First electric autonomous cargo ship launched in Norway
Nov 19, 2021 (AFP)
By shipping up to 120 containers of fertilizer from a plant in the southeastern town of Porsgrunn to the Brevik port a dozen kilometres (about eight miles) away...
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