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Johannesburg residents 'desperate' as taps run dry
Feb 11, 2026 (AFP)
The 63-year-old, who struggles to walk and lives alone in a small cottage, said she joined a demonstration Wednesday by residents of the city's upmarket Melvill...
UK's crumbling canals threatened with collapse
Feb 11, 2026 (AFP)
The sight starkly illustrated an ongoing battle to maintain the UK's historic, yet deteriorating, waterways. Britain's canal network "is facing pressure it has ...
Three-year heatwave bleached half the planet's coral reefs: study
Feb 10, 2026 (AFP)
The analysis concluded that 51 percent of the world's reefs endured moderate or worse bleaching while 15 percent experienced significant mortality over the thre...
Brazil suspends dredging of Amazon river after Indigenous protests
Feb 07, 2026 (AFP)
Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting for two weeks outside the port terminal of US agribusiness giant Cargill in northern Brazil to draw the atten...
Trump reinstates commercial fishing in protected Atlantic waters
Feb 07, 2026 (AFP)
The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument spans nearly 5,000 square miles -- larger than Yellowstone National Park. Long a focus of scientifi...
Zoantharian cousins blur long held divide between Atlantic and Indo Pacific reefs
Feb 06, 2026 (SPX)
The research, published in Frontiers of Biogeography, was led by Dr. Maria "Duda" Santos of the UH Manoa Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology ToBo Lab and the Uni...
Rock microbes reveal hidden groundwater carbon engine
Feb 03, 2026 (SPX)
Previous work on groundwater microbiology has focused mainly on cells suspended in the water column because they are easier to sample and analyze. Early indicat...
Japan says rare earth found in sediment retrieved on deep-sea mission
Feb 02, 2026 (AFP)
Japan says the mission was the world's first bid to tap deep sea rare earths at such a depth. "Details will be analysed, including exactly how much rare earth i...
South Africa embraces water tastings as Washington reels from sewage leak
Jan 29, 2026 (AFP)
In a tasting room lined with elegant glass bottles from across the globe, water sommelier Nico Pieterse extolled the qualities and even "emotional connection" o...
'So little we know': in submersibles revealing the deep sea
Jan 28, 2026 (AFP)
This month, AFP boarded one of two submersibles belonging to OceanX, a non-profit backed by billionaire Ray Dalio and his son that brings scientists onto its Oc...
Lunar soil study limits late meteorite role in supplying Earth oceans
Jan 26, 2026 (SPX)
In work published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by Tony Gargano at the Lunar and Planetary Institute and the University of ...
OceanXplorer: a 'one-stop shop' for marine research
Jan 26, 2026 (AFP)
The ship pairs advanced scientific research with high-end media content to make marine biology and conservation accessible. - A one-stop shop - A former oil exp...
Long-awaited first snowfall brings relief to water-scarce Kabul
Jan 23, 2026 (AFP)
Snow usually comes to the Afghan capital in December, but its six million inhabitants are increasingly feeling the effects of climate change, which has brought ...
Trump vows to relaunch Egypt-Ethiopia talks on dam row
Jan 21, 2026 (AFP)
Trump spoke after meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al?Sisi on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Egypt, which de...
Balkan wild rivers in steady decline: study
Jan 21, 2026 (AFP)
The Balkans are home to some of Europe's cleanest and wildest rivers, crucial to the continent's biodiversity. But a surge in infrastructure projects increasing...
Activists question treaty power to protect high seas
Jan 21, 2026 (SPX)
In a new book titled The Only Flag Worth Flying, conservationist Paul Watson and legal scholar Sarah Levy argue that legislation alone will not be enough to hal...
UN report warns world is entering era of global water bankruptcy
Jan 21, 2026 (SPX)
Titled Global Water Bankruptcy: Living Beyond Our Hydrological Means in the Post-Crisis Era, the report defines water bankruptcy as a persistent post crisis con...
Geoscientists use satellite to determine not the shape of water, but how water shapes land
Jan 21, 2026 (SPX)
Virginia Tech geoscientists are using the same satellite to ask a related question: How is water shaping the land? "We wanted to show how the satellite could be...
US finalizes rule for deep-sea mining beyond its waters
Jan 20, 2026 (AFP)
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's 113-page document consolidates what is currently a two-step permitting process -- one for exploration and ...
Scientists plan deep-sea expedition to probe 'dark oxygen'
Jan 20, 2026 (AFP)
If a previously unknown source of oxygen has always been lurking in Earth's depths, it would represent a remarkable revelation that would call into question lon...
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