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Greece to create new marine reserves to protect underwater wildlife
Jul 21, 2025 (AFP)
The new protected areas -- in the Ionian Sea and in the Southern Cyclades in the Aegean Sea -- would be "among the largest marine protected areas in the entire ...
UK overhauls regulation of 'broken' water system
Jul 21, 2025 (AFP)
The move comes after years of angry complaints about the privately-run system and its much-maligned regulator Ofwat, including constant leaks and raw sewage bei...
Deep sea mining firm TMC gets veiled warning from global body
Jul 21, 2025 (AFP)
In a text adopted Monday, the ISA's executive body urged its legal and technical commission to "pay specific attention" to companies whose activities could be i...
Belgium stashes sunken ship with rare oysters in marine life boost
Jul 20, 2025 (AFP)
The mollusc has mostly disappeared from the North Sea due to human activity including overfishing. Now, a Belgian project is trying to reintroduce it in a move ...
'No life without water': settler attacks threaten West Bank communities
Jul 20, 2025 (AFP)
So when Israeli settlers recently attacked the system of wells, pumps and pipelines he oversees, he knew the stakes. "There is no life without water, of course"...
Restoring sea floor after mining may not be possible, researchers warn
Jul 20, 2025 (AFP)
One of the last wild zones on the planet, the sea floor is a coveted frontier for companies and countries eager to access minerals that are in high demand for e...
Iranians told to use less water as heatwave worsens shortages
Jul 20, 2025 (AFP)
Water scarcity is a major issue in Iran, particularly in arid provinces in the country's south, with shortages blamed on mismanagement and overexploitation of u...
China starts construction of Tibet mega-dam
Jul 19, 2025 (AFP)
Beijing approved the project in December on the river -- known as Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet and Brahmaputra in India -- linking it to the country's carbon neutra...
Pakistan bans new hotel construction around tourist lakes
Jul 18, 2025 (AFP)
Unregulated construction of hotels and guest houses in Gilgit-Baltistan -- which boasts around 13,000 glaciers, more than any other country on Earth outside the...
New deep sea mining rules lack consensus despite US pressure
Jul 18, 2025 (AFP)
Following a meeting in March and the current session in Jamaica, the 36 members of the ISA's executive council completed on Thursday a line-by-line reading of t...
Leaking pipes as climate warms: Bulgaria faces water crisis
Jul 17, 2025 (AFP)
When water finally comes, it lasts only a few hours, and the retired agricultural expert has to choose between filling cans, running the washing machine or taki...
'Dialogue' must be at heart of China, Australia ties, PM tells Xi
Jul 15, 2025 (AFP)
Albanese is on his second visit to China as prime minister, seeking to bolster recently stabilised trade ties even as geopolitical tensions remain high. Relatio...
W. Virginia villagers take on AI-driven power plant boom
Jul 15, 2025 (AFP)
"The power plant would be there," says the former military man, who is fighting against construction of the mysterious project on the outskirts of Davis, design...
Nanosheet breakthrough enables low temperature heat storage through water trapping
Jul 14, 2025 (SPX)
The team engineered ultrathin sheets of layered manganese dioxide (MnO2) that harness a dual-mode water capture system-combining intercalation and surface adsor...
Rivers choose their path based on erosion - a discovery that could transform flood planning and restoration
Jul 14, 2025 (SPX)
Understanding why some waterways form single channels, while others divide into many threads, has perplexed researchers for over a century. Geographers at UC Sa...
Australia says China likely to spy on military drills with US
Jul 13, 2025 (AFP)
It also renewed a charge -- denounced by Beijing as a "false narrative" -- that China wants to establish a military base in the South Pacific. The comments by a...
Autonomous sub explores unexplored trench depths to reveal critical mineral clues
Jul 11, 2025 (SPX)
Engineered to function at depths reaching 11,000 meters (6.8 miles), the compact AUV offers a powerful new tool for studying the Earth's most remote marine envi...
'Significant declines' in some species after deep-sea mining: research
Jul 11, 2025 (AFP)
The Metals Company -- a leading deep-sea mining firm -- paid Australia's government science agency to pore through data collected during test mining in the remo...
Man arrested in Italy for syphoning water from royal palace
Jul 10, 2025 (AFP)
The carabinieri police said the 58-year-old had engaged in "continued theft of public water" to the detriment of the 18th-century Royal Palace of Caserta, a UNE...
The long slow death of Norway's wild salmon
Jul 09, 2025 (AFP)
"As a kid, in the early 1980s, there was so much fish in the river, you have no idea. It was packed with sea trout and salmon. We could catch 10-15 fish in one ...
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