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Raytheon and NOAA Join Forces in Advanced Water Resources Forecasting Project
Jan 26, 2024 (SPX)
Raytheon, a business unit under Raytheon Technologies Corporation (NYSE: RTX), has embarked on a significant endeavor with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
China, Nauru formally resume diplomatic relations: state media
Jan 24, 2024 (AFP)
Officials from the two countries held a signing ceremony in Beijing, state news agency Xinhua said. In a post-election blow to Taiwan, Nauru unexpectedly announ...
China, Nauru formally resume diplomatic relations
Jan 24, 2024 (AFP)
The foreign ministers of the two countries held a signing ceremony in Beijing, an AFP journalist saw. In a post-election blow to Taiwan, Nauru unexpectedly anno...
Injectable water filtration system could improve access to clean drinking water around the world
Jan 24, 2024 (SPX)
The new system collects dirty water with a syringe and injects it into a hydrogel filter that weeds out nearly all tiny particles. This device, the researchers ...
Palau becomes first nation to ratify UN high seas treaty
Jan 24, 2024 (AFP)
The so-called High Seas Treaty was adopted by UN member states in June, after more than 15 years of discussions. It can go into effect 120 days after being rati...
Water, water everywhere and now we may have drops to drink
Jan 24, 2024 (SPX)
In a paper published in Cell Reports Physical Science, the NYU Tandon team led by Dr. Andre Taylor, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and direc...
Brazil town still feels trauma of mine dam collapse five years on
Jan 24, 2024 (AFP)
When the 25-year-old mother of two turned, she saw an oncoming wall of liquid mud. "God save me," she said, according to her family. Then her phone went dead. O...
France orders rare Atlantic fishing ban to protect dolphins
Jan 18, 2024 (AFP)
The month-long ban off the country's West coast -- the first since the end of World War II -- is set to begin Monday and applies to both French and foreign fish...
Researchers pump brakes on 'blue acceleration' harming oceans
Jan 18, 2024 (SPX)
The University of Queensland's Professor Anthony Richardson collaborated on the study, which looks to halt the rapid decline of marine biodiversity from expandi...
URI professor leads effort demonstrating success of new technology in conducting deep-sea research on fragile organisms
Jan 18, 2024 (SPX)
URI Professor Brennan Phillips, the principal investigator on the project, and a team of 15 researchers from six institutions, including URI, have shown that it...
A new, rigorous assessment of OpenET accuracy for supporting satellite-based water management
Jan 17, 2024 (SPX)
In the study, published Jan. 15 in Nature Water, DRI scientists led a large team of researchers in a comparison of OpenET data to evapotranspiration data produc...
Brumadinho dam collapse: The danger emerged after the decommissioning
Jan 17, 2024 (SPX)
The Brumadinho dam collapse resulted in several lawsuits against the Vale mining company and the TUV Sud inspection organisation. Shortly before the accident, t...
Rice engineers propose hybrid urban water sourcing model
Jan 17, 2024 (SPX)
"Such a system will save energy and help reduce the use of freshwater, a commodity that is becoming critically important around the world," said Qilin Li, profe...
Largest-ever study of ocean DNA has created essential catalog of marine life
Jan 17, 2024 (SPX)
"The KMAP Global Ocean Gene Catalog 1.0 is a leap toward understanding the ocean's full diversity, containing more than 317 million gene groups from marine orga...
Pacific nation Nauru cuts ties to Taiwan, switches to China
Jan 16, 2024 (AFP)
The Nauru government said it would no longer recognise Taiwan "as a separate country" but "rather as an inalienable part of China's territory". China claims dem...
Discarded Christmas trees, a gift to Stockholm's fish
Jan 13, 2024 (AFP)
The initiative, started by national sport fishing association Sportfiskarna in 2016 to help restore the endangered ecosystem, has been hailed by environmentalis...
Green tech pumps water from air at CES
Jan 12, 2024 (AFP)
With calls to fight climate change escalating, technology firms are finding ways to help, according to organizers of the Consumer Electronics Show, which wraps ...
The potential of tidal range schemes to produce energy and protect coastlines
Jan 12, 2024 (SPX)
David Vandercruyssen, a postgraduate researcher at the university, explains that tidal range schemes allow for the control of high tides through the simple mech...
A single-celled microbe is helping corals survive climate change
Jan 12, 2024 (SPX)
They found that the abundance of certain protists within the coral microbiome - the diverse microorganisms that live within corals - can inform scientists as to...
A global study reveals pathways to save threatened sharks
Jan 12, 2024 (SPX)
Governments around the world have introduced a host of regulations aimed at reducing shark catch and finning, the latter of which typically sees valuable shark ...
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