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Global warming kills 14 percent of world's corals in a decade

Oct 05, 2021 (AFP)

Hardest hit were corals in South Asia and the Pacific, around the Arabian Peninsula, and off the coast of Australia, more than 300 scientists in the Global Cora...

Scientists uncover rare ancient toilet in what was once royal mansion in Jerusalem

Oct 05, 2021 (UPI)

Workers uncovered the 2,700-year-old bathroom from the First Temple period while excavating in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood for the construction of a new tou...

Climate change threatens the Everglades, Florida's gem

Oct 05, 2021 (AFP)

Gimenez, an airboat captain, has found his paradise in Florida's Everglades National Park, a natural gem in the southeastern US state at risk from climate chang...

Senegal's old capital on the frontline against rising sea

Oct 04, 2021 (AFP)

When work is finished, a black sea wall will stretch for kilometres along the coastline of the West African country's former capital, famed for its colonial-era...

Aerosols released from Australian bushfires triggers algal blooms

Oct 01, 2021 (ESA)

Australia is no stranger to bushfires, however the 2019-2020 season proved to be unprecedented. As of March 2020, the fires burned an estimated 18.6 million hec...

Scientists race to save Florida coral reef from mysterious disease

Sep 30, 2021 (AFP)

The work of the scientists here could be the last chance to save the species that make up the only coral reef in the United States' continental waters. Gavin an...

In first, ocean drone captures footage from inside hurricane

Sep 30, 2021 (AFP)

Dramatic footage released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showed the small craft battling 50-feet (15 meter) high waves and winds of over...

Four West African countries make pledge on giant aquifer

Sep 29, 2021 (AFP)

Ministers in charge of water, meeting in Geneva, made the vow over the Senegal-Mauritanian Aquifer Basin (SMAB), a vast groundwater resource on which 80 percent...

Major ocean current could warm greatly, new study reveals

Sep 29, 2021 (SPX)

Ocean currents embody motion, snaking their way from the tropics to the poles and back, shifting vast quantities of water from moment to moment. But they are al...

Novel functional biochar composites help to treat wastewater

Sep 29, 2021 (SPX)

Red mud is a bauxite residue generated from the Bayer process in the aluminum industry. More than two billion metric tons of red mud was piled up at random glob...

Syria water crisis spurs spike in disease: MSF

Sep 28, 2021 (AFP)

The medical aid group blamed the "acute water crisis" in recent months on a decrease in funding for water, sanitation and hygiene operations as well as the dest...

More than 3,000 shark fins confiscated in Colombia

Sep 25, 2021 (AFP)

Bogota "seized 3,493 shark fins and 117 kilos of fish bladders that were en route to Hong Kong", environmental ministry head Carolina Urrutia said. The haul hig...

Niger speeds up efforts to build first hydroelectric dam

Sep 24, 2021 (AFP)

Long in the works and long delayed, the Kandadji dam project aims to free the world's poorest nation of its energy dependence on neighbouring Nigeria and boost ...

Report: Global warming is causing 'unprecedented changes' to oceans

Sep 23, 2021 (UPI)

Published Wednesday, the annual Ocean State Report 5 by the Copernicus Marine Service and Mercator Ocean International is a far-reaching analysis of the health ...

Battling to 'replant' Albania's threatened marine forests

Sep 21, 2021 (AFP)

The large brown algae forests -- a hot spot of biodiversity -- are steadily shrinking, scientists warn. Warming sea temperatures, pollution and dynamite fishing...

Damaged coral reefs cause decline in fisheries, risks for coastal communities

Sep 17, 2021 (UPI)

Fish catches along the world's coral reefs peaked nearly two decades ago and have been diminishing since, according to a study published in the journal One Eart...

Australia nuclear sub deal will help peace in Indo-Pacific: UK PM

Sep 16, 2021 (AFP)

Johnson told parliament the move, part of a new defence alliance between Britain, Australia and the United States, was "not intended to be adversarial". It "wil...

Egypt, Sudan back resumed Nile dam talks as UN urges deal

Sep 16, 2021 (AFP)

Set to be Africa's largest hydroelectric project when completed, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has sparked an almost decade-long diplomatic stand-o...

Seabirds starve in stormy 'washing machine' waves: study

Sep 15, 2021 (AFP)

Puffins, auks and guillemots -- hardy little birds that nest in the Arctic -- head south each year to more hospitable but isolated islands off Newfoundland, Ice...

Australian wildfires triggered giant algal blooms thousands of miles away

Sep 15, 2021 (UPI)

Between November 2019 and January 2020, wildfires across Australia burned millions of acres of bushland and forest. The record-setting fires yielded thick, blac...