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Historic red tide event of 2020 fueled by plankton super swimmers
Aug 30, 2023 (SPX)
While the red tide captured the public's attention and made global Historic red tide event of 2020 fueled by plankton super swimmerss, the event was also a harm...
Fish stocks survive ocean heatwaves: study
Aug 30, 2023 (AFP)
Weather monitors reported record-warm sea-surface temperatures in July -- but the study of thousands of deeper fishery samples from 1993 to 2019 found that ocea...
Past abrupt changes in North Atlantic Overturning have impacted the climate system across the globe
Aug 30, 2023 (SPX)
In the new study, the research team investigates a global collection of cave minerals such as dripstones from different regions of the world. In a sense, these ...
Study: Global wetlands, coral reefs 'hanging by a thread' as sea levels rise
Aug 30, 2023 (UPI)
"Collectively, these are among the most valuable ecosystems on the planet. For example, the world's fisheries depend to a significant extent on the health of co...
Post-Brexit UK relaxes EU water pollution rules
Aug 29, 2023 (AFP)
The so-called "nutrient neutrality" rules in place were designed to ensure a new development does not add harmful nutrients to nearby waterways. "Over 100,000 h...
Nile dam talks resume between Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan
Aug 27, 2023 (AFP)
For years at loggerheads over the issue, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had agreed in July to finalise a deal w...
El Nino and La Nina multi-year events could become more common
Aug 26, 2023 (SPX)
Periodic variations in the ocean's water temperature and winds, called the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, are a major meteorologic force. Scientists know that hu...
The swansong of African hydropower?
Aug 25, 2023 (SPX)
But is it a smart idea to plan for hundreds of new hydro dams across Africa? A new study from scientists in Italy, Austria, Ethiopia, and Belgium shows that thi...
China's allies lead Pacific criticism of Fukushima water release
Aug 25, 2023 (AFP)
More than 500 Olympic swimming pools' worth of treated wastewater will be released into the Pacific over decades in a plan endorsed by the International Atomic ...
'Citizen scientists' battle to save historic UK river
Aug 25, 2023 (AFP)
Up and down the river, a team of 250 others have been doing the same, hoping to save it from an unfolding ecological crisis. "The river is declining. The next t...
Beijing fishmongers worry as Japan begins Fukushima water release
Aug 24, 2023 (AFP)
Hours before the release began, a store manager named Wang Jinglong in one of the Chinese capital's biggest seafood markets told AFP there had already been a "m...
Uruguay declares end to water crisis
Aug 23, 2023 (AFP)
The government imposed emergency measures in June as freshwater reservoirs dried up in the country's worst water shortage since records began seven decades ago....
China's sushi fans flounder over Fukushima water release
Aug 23, 2023 (AFP)
Chinese sushi and sashimi lovers have expressed reservations after Japan kicked off plans for the disposal of waste from the stricken power plant into the Pacif...
Parched Egypt struggles to contain water loss
Aug 18, 2023 (AFP)
Beneath intricate Koranic inscriptions, the thick shrubbery crawls upwards from waist-deep water towards the 13th-century Al-Ashraf Khalil dome in the Egyptian ...
Greenpeace slams Poland's new river protection law
Aug 18, 2023 (AFP)
A toxic algae bloom hit the river on the Polish border with Germany last summer, with at least 300 tonnes of dead fish pulled from the water as tensions spiked ...
Ireland's fishermen fear species migration as sea temperatures soar
Aug 17, 2023 (AFP)
"It's a massive problem," he told AFP in the pilothouse of the Atlantic Challenge trawler, where he works as a deckhand, docked in the port of Killybegs in nort...
Satellite data offers new insights into phytoplankton
Aug 17, 2023 (SPX)
Phytoplankton not only determine the potential biomass an ocean can support but also play a pivotal role in regulating atmospheric carbon dioxide, influencing o...
'Silent threat': Bahrain to build walls against rising sea
Aug 17, 2023 (AFP)
By next year, the tiny Gulf state will begin building its coastal defences against sea levels that have begun advancing, by widening beaches, constructing talle...
'No more water': Iraq drought claims lakeside resort
Aug 16, 2023 (AFP)
"The last two years, there was some activity, but now there's no more water," said 35-year-old Mohamed, asking to be identified only by his first name. He laid ...
World faces 'extremely high water stress' as supply fails to meet demand
Aug 16, 2023 (UPI)
The Aqueduct Risk Atlas, released Wednesday by the Washington-based research group, shows about 4 billion people were living under elevated water-stressed condi...
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