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Iran says 10 missing fishermen found in UAE
Aug 31, 2026 (AFP)
Mohammad Soleimani, head of the ministry's representative office in Hormozgan province, said 13 fishermen had been missing since early August, amid concerns the...
Pacific Islands summit opens in shadow of China-Taiwan tensions
Aug 31, 2026 (AFP)
The gathering aims to grapple with challenges such as climate change, drug crime and the Chinese test-firing of a ballistic missile in July that landed in the P...
Deadly virus stalks South Africa's sardines
Aug 31, 2026 (AFP)
Along Hobie and Pollock beaches, bewildered residents watched as waves deposited more fish on the sand, fuelling fears that a virus linked to devastating sardin...
Malaysia's Sarawak eyes cloud seeding as haze worsens
Aug 31, 2026 (AFP)
Indonesia, a vast archipelago, has for weeks battled wildfires that have led to school closures and thousands of people requiring medical treatment, with smoke ...
Tribunal says India cannot withdraw from water treaty with Pakistan
Aug 31, 2026 (AFP)
The Permanent Court of Arbitration, based in The Hague in the Netherlands, also made an order "prohibiting" India from carrying out works at two hydroelectric p...
Ecuador declares emergency over El Nino
Aug 30, 2026 (AFP)
This year's El Nino is already wreaking havoc in Central America, which is in the throes of a severe drought, and in Indonesia, where it is exacerbating wildfir...
Climate change hits trout and salmon in UK's prized chalk streams
Aug 28, 2026 (AFP)
A summer of record-breaking temperatures and drought is threatening the ecological balance of rare chalk streams -- rivers formed on chalk beds that are largely...
Indonesia, Japan discuss defence ties after Tokyo unlocks arms exports
May 04, 2026 (AFP)
Indonesia's Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin said he would ink an agreement with his Japanese counterpart Shinjiro Koizumi, although details of the pact wer...
Warm Deep-Ocean Water Advancing Toward Antarctica in Decades-Long Shift
Apr 29, 2026 (SPX)
The study, led by the University of Cambridge with collaborators at the University of California, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and UCLA, drew on long-te...
Hydromea and Equinor prove subsea wireless link from seabed to cloud
Mar 29, 2026 (SPX)
The demonstration showed that high volumes of data gathered on the ocean floor can now be streamed wirelessly in real time via a LUMA hotspot to asset operators...
Water emerges as a dangerous new war target
Mar 09, 2026 (AFP)
- Who was targeted? - Bahrain's interior ministry said Sunday that an Iranian drone attack damaged a water desalination plant, accusing Tehran of "randomly" tar...
Warming El Nino may return later this year: UN
Mar 03, 2026 (AFP)
The UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said the recent, weak La Nina was expected to give way to neutral conditions, which could then swing into El Ni...
Gyroscopic wave device targets broadband ocean power
Feb 26, 2026 (SPX)
The GWEC concept relies on a spinning flywheel housed within a floating structure to turn complex wave driven motion into electricity. As the floating body resp...
Hybrid offshore platforms boost ocean power output and stability
Feb 25, 2026 (SPX)
The team carried out a comprehensive review of hybrid offshore renewable energy harvest systems that integrate multiple technologies on a single foundation. The...
Japan city gets $3.6 mn donation in gold to fix water system
Feb 19, 2026 (AFP)
The donation worth $3.6 million was made in November by a person who a month earlier had already given $3,300 in cash for the municipal waterworks, Osaka Mayor ...
Artificial wetlands help clean runoff and support circular agriculture
Feb 16, 2026 (SPX)
Within the TED2021 Rainwetpipa project, funded by PRTR funds, the team has analysed the hydraulic behaviour and purification capacity of the Tancat de la Pipa f...
Japan's 'godless' lake warns of creeping climate change
Feb 15, 2026 (AFP)
The few dozen men, most in their sixties, were headed to Nagano's Lake Suwa in search of a phenomenon called "God's Crossing" that has gone from reliable to elu...
Eternal City eternally damp as Rome suffers record rainfall; Calabria again under water
Feb 14, 2026 (AFP)
Italy had already declared a state of emergency last month for Calabria, at the foot of Italy's boot, and the islands of Sicily and Sardinia after Storm Harry w...
Eternal City eternally damp as Rome suffers record rainfall
Feb 13, 2026 (AFP)
Persistent bad weather has dogged the whole of Italy since the start of the year, with storms causing huge damage and disruption. Rome itself has seen near-dail...
Southern Indian Ocean waters lose salt as climate shifts currents
Feb 13, 2026 (SPX)
The study, published February 3 in the journal Nature Climate Change, examined six decades of observational records to trace how warming has altered large scale...
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