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Rats played major role in Easter Island's deforestation, study reveals

Nov 18, 2025 (SPX)

Lipo's studies show the moai, which represented ancestors, were vital in bringing communities together and weren't transported using logs, but rather moved upri...

Education for girls hit hard by India's drying wells

Nov 18, 2025 (AFP)

By the time she returns, school has already started. "I have kept my books," she said. "But what if I never get a chance to go back?" In the drought-hit village...

6 Things to Know From NASA About New US, European Sea Satellite

Nov 15, 2025 (JPL)

With launch set for no earlier than 12:21 a.m. EST Monday, Nov. 17, Sentinel-6B is the latest satellite in a series of spacecraft NASA and its partners have use...

How fishes of the deep sea have evolved into different shapes

Nov 14, 2025 (SPX)

Overall, the analysis of nearly 3,000 species showed more diversity of body types among the pelagic fishes, those that swim in open water, than among the benthi...

Zanzibar women turn to sponge farming as oceans heat up

Nov 13, 2025 (AFP)

Rising ocean temperatures, overfishing and pollution have steadily degraded marine ecosystems around the island, undermining a key source of income for locals i...

Australia, Indonesia agree to sign new security treaty

Nov 12, 2025 (AFP)

Canberra has drawn ever nearer to longtime ally Washington, bolstering its military in an attempt to deter the might of a rising China in the Asia-Pacific regio...

Threat from mining waste disrupts twilight zone ocean food webs

Nov 12, 2025 (SPX)

Michael Dowd, lead author and oceanography graduate student at UH Manoa, said, "When the waste released by mining activity enters the ocean, it creates water as...

First evidence of Ice XXI phase observed at extreme pressure and room temperature

Nov 12, 2025 (SPX)

Ice generally forms when water cools below 0 C, but can also form at room temperature or higher if the pressure is sufficient. When water is pressurized above 0...

Threat from sand mining places Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake at severe risk

Nov 11, 2025 (SPX)

The study reveals that more than 100 million tonnes of sand are removed each year from the Mekong's riverbed, with most of this extraction driven by the constru...

Dam reservoir levels drop below 3% in Iran's second city: media

Nov 09, 2025 (AFP)

"The water storage in Mashhad's dams has now fallen to less than three percent," Hossein Esmaeilian, the chief executive of the water company in Iran's second l...

Tehran to restrict water as Iran battles drought

Nov 08, 2025 (AFP)

Rainfall in the capital has this year been at its lowest level in a century, local officials say, and half of Iran's provinces have not seen a drop fall in mont...

Chinese ship scouts deep-ocean floor in South Pacific

Nov 08, 2025 (AFP)

The Da Yang Hao docked in the palm-shaded port of Avatiu on a "scientific research cruise" through the tropical archipelago, the Cook Islands' Seabed Minerals A...

New research identifies greater winter carbon dioxide emissions from Southern Ocean

Nov 07, 2025 (SPX)

The team includes researchers from the Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources (SIO-MNR), and the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Lim...

UV light holds promise for energy-efficient desalination

Nov 04, 2025 (SPX)

"To our knowledge, nobody else has yet articulated this deep UV channel for salt-water separation," Vuong said. "UV light in the wavelength range of 300-400 nan...

New research clarifies atomic-scale mechanism behind cloud seeding with silver iodide

Nov 04, 2025 (SPX)

Until now, the microscopic details of this process have remained unclear. Using high-resolution microscopy and computer simulations, researchers at TU Wien have...

Only two weeks of water left in Tehran's main reservoir: official

Nov 02, 2025 (AFP)

The Amir Kabir dam, one of five which provide drinking water for the capital, "holds just 14 million cubic metres of water, which is eight percent of its capaci...

Ecuador and US rule out Galapagos military base

Oct 31, 2025 (AFP)

US ally Noboa had caused an outcry by earlier saying a base could be erected on Baltra, a small island in the Pacific archipelago chain, to combat drug and fuel...

Australia fends off shark bites with new tech and old

Oct 29, 2025 (AFP)

Australia's oceans are teeming with sharks, with great whites topping the list of species that might fatally chomp a human. Undeterred, Australians flock to the...

Underwater 'human habitat' aims to allow researchers to make weeklong dives

Oct 29, 2025 (AFP)

The company unveiled its prototype Wednesday at a hangar in Miami, Florida, hoping that oceanographers and other researchers can use it to stay underwater in th...

Ecuador could host foreign military base on Galapagos

Oct 28, 2025 (AFP)

Ecuadorans will decide in a referendum on November 16 whether to repeal a 2008 constitutional ban on their country hosting foreign military bases, as sought by ...