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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...
The beach is back: French Riviera marsh ditches seawalls for sand
Sep 10, 2021 (AFP)
Instead, they have let nature take its course. The Vieux-Salins d'Hyeres salt marshes sit just below sea level with a stretch of vital but shifting sand beach t...
Some coral reefs are keeping pace with ocean warming
Sep 09, 2021 (SPX)
After a series of marine heatwaves hit the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) in the central Pacific Ocean, a new study finds the impact of heat stress on th...
La Nina climate cycle may reemerge in 2021: UN
Sep 09, 2021 (AFP)
The World Meteorological Organization said that there was now a 40-percent chance that La Nina, which last held the globe in its clutches between August 2020 an...
New filtering method promises safer drinking water, improved industrial production
Sep 08, 2021 (SPX)
Reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers demonstrated that their novel polymer membranes can separate fluoride from chl...
Scientists are using new satellite tech to find glow-in-the-dark milky seas of maritime lore
Sep 07, 2021 (SPX)
I'm a professor of atmospheric science specializing in satellites used to study Earth. Via a stat-of-the-art generation of satellites, my colleagues and I have ...
The world in a drop of water: DNA tool transforms nature tracking
Sep 07, 2021 (AFP)
They found what they were looking for. And then some. The environmental DNA collected yielded information on 675 species, including dozens of land-based mammals...
Conservation meet mulls moratorium on deep sea mining
Sep 06, 2021 (AFP)
The proposed ban is among a score of measures deemed too controversial to be decided remotely ahead of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (I...
Drought squeezes Brazil's electricity supply
Sep 03, 2021 (AFP)
The country of 213 million people relies on hydropower for two-thirds of its electricity, but crucial dams are at near-record lows of less than a quarter full. ...
Overlooked but essential: Experts urge protection for seagrass
Sep 01, 2021 (AFP)
Named posidonia oceanica -- or "Neptune grass" -- for the Greek god of the seas, the plant covers at least one million hectares (3,900 square miles) of the Medi...
Large difference in role of iron between oceans near Greenland and Antarctica
Sep 01, 2021 (SPX)
Iron is an essential element for all living cells. In seawater, it is present at extremely low concentrations. "Marine algae, the base of the marine food web, l...
Extreme sea levels to become much more common worldwide as Earth warms
Sep 01, 2021 (SPX)
A new study, appearing in the journal Nature Climate Change August 30, looks specifically at extreme sea levels-the occurrence of exceptionally high seas due to...
South America's Parana river is drying up, baffling experts
Sep 01, 2021 (AFP)
The decrease has become so drastic that it is affecting commercial shipping, electricity generation, fishing, tourism, as well as the provision of water for dri...
Corsica's 'ecological moorings' protect seagrass and yachts
Sep 01, 2021 (AFP)
Captain of the 41-metre (135-foot) Ocean Sapphire, Loudoux remembers suddenly being unable to access his usual spots near fragile beds of so-called Neptune gras...
Stingray's protruding eyes, mouth aid swimming efficiency
Aug 31, 2021 (UPI)
Sea rays, including stingrays and skates, are noted for their streamlined body and flexible pectoral fins. These features offer obvious hydrodynamic benefits, b...
'Desert': drying Euphrates threatens disaster in Syria
Aug 30, 2021 (AFP)
"It's as if we were in the desert," said the 50-year-old farmer, standing on what last year was the Euphrates riverbed. "We're thinking of leaving because there...
Extreme precipitation has increased significantly in arid Northwest China
Aug 27, 2021 (SPX)
Mountain torrents, or a combination of large-scale sliding floodwater and mud, as well as landslides have resulted from EPE events. In recent years, EPE occurre...
Fewer El Nino and La Nina events in a warmer world
Aug 27, 2021 (SPX)
The team conducted a series of global climate model simulations with an unprecedented spatial resolution of 10 km in the ocean and 25 km in the atmosphere. Boos...
UN hails joint Libya force to protect water network
Aug 26, 2021 (AFP)
"It is a very significant step forward towards the unification of the military institution and the country," the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL...
Ocean surface climates may disappear by 2100: study
Aug 26, 2021 (AFP)
Ocean surface climates, defined by surface water temperature, acidity and the concentration of the mineral aragonite -- which many marine animals use to form bo...
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