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Australian Murray cod wallops swim record
Oct 27, 2025 (AFP)
The fish, named Arnie after Australia's recently retired Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus, was first tagged in early 2022 in Mullaroo Creek, about 13 hours' driv...
Mangrove research reveals major blue carbon and economic gain potential for the Philippines
Oct 27, 2025 (SPX)
Blue carbon refers to carbon captured by marine and coastal ecosystems, such as mangroves, seagrasses, and salt marshes. Among these, mangroves are the most eff...
Plastic waste may persist on ocean surfaces for generations model shows
Oct 27, 2025 (SPX)
Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A the research is the culmination of a trilogy examining the fate of microplastics in the ocean. Th...
New Japan PM vows to take US ties to 'new heights' with Trump
Oct 24, 2025 (AFP)
Japan's first woman premier, who so far is enjoying high poll ratings, also told a rowdy parliament that two percent of gross domestic product will be spent on ...
'Functionally extinct': Heat wave left Florida coral species on brink
Oct 23, 2025 (AFP)
Elkhorn and staghorn corals, which take their names from the antler shapes they resemble and belong to the Acropora family, are fast-growing "reef builder" spec...
SYOS Aerospace expands into underwater robotics with acquisition of Bay Dynamics
Oct 22, 2025 (SPX)
The move marks a major step in SYOS's evolution toward becoming a full-spectrum uncrewed systems provider. The company said the deal will accelerate development...
Ancient cherts reveal how the ocean floor cooled over billions of years
Oct 21, 2025 (SPX)
The study overturns the assumption that oxygen isotopes in cherts directly reflect ancient climate conditions. Instead, the ratios of three oxygen isotopes-16O,...
Aussie PM meets Trump with critical minerals on offer
Oct 19, 2025 (AFP)
At the same time, Albanese is hoping to secure Trump's backing for a 2021 pact to arm Australia with silent, nuclear-powered attack submarines. Australians have...
Hotter climate drives more intense rainfall across Japan
Oct 16, 2025 (SPX)
Seeking to understand how rising temperatures influence precipitation, scientists at Kyoto University examined how climate change affects extreme rainfall acros...
Manta rays may dive over a kilometer deep to chart ocean routes
Oct 16, 2025 (SPX)
The findings, published in Frontiers in Marine Science, stem from a decade-long tagging program in Peru, Indonesia, and New Zealand. Lead author Dr Calvin Beale...
Rain in the Sahara? UIC researchers predict a wetter future for the desert
Oct 16, 2025 (SPX)
But by the second half of the 21st century, rising global temperatures could make the Sahara much wetter, according to UIC researchers. By that time, the North ...
World's coral reefs crossing survival limit: global experts
Oct 12, 2025 (AFP)
It is the first time scientists have declared that Earth has likely reached a so-called "tipping point" -- a shift that could trigger massive and often permanen...
Palau leader in 'world first' underwater interview
Oct 09, 2025 (AFP)
In a bid to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the ocean, Surangel Whipps Jr, who leads the nation of roughly 17,600 people, conducted the inter...
La Nina is back, but impact may be limited: US agency
Oct 09, 2025 (AFP)
La Nina is a naturally occurring climate pattern that cools surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. Because of changes in vert...
US wastewater plants emit double the greenhouse gases in official estimates
Oct 09, 2025 (SPX)
Reporting Oct. 8 in Nature Water, researchers led by Professors Mark Zondlo and Z. Jason Ren, working with UC Riverside's Francesca Hopkins, found sectorwide em...
New Zealand's seas warming faster than global average: report
Oct 08, 2025 (AFP)
The government study found New Zealand's oceans are growing hotter, turning more acidic and already threatening thousands of coastal homes as sea levels rise. T...
Deep-sea mining poses new threat to sharks, rays and ghost sharks
Oct 06, 2025 (SPX)
Lead author Aaron Judah, an oceanography graduate student at UH Manoa's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), warned that "deep-sea mining i...
Vast reserves, but little to drink: Tajikistan's water struggles
Oct 06, 2025 (AFP)
Despite mountain glaciers providing Tajikistan with abundant reserves in the otherwise arid region of Central Asia, access to clean, safe drinking water is stil...
Hydropower emerges as Southeast Asia's hidden force in driving down carbon emissions
Oct 06, 2025 (SPX)
Published on August 4, 2025, in Carbon Research, the study led by Dr. Rinaldi Idroes from the School of Mathematics and Applied Sciences at Universitas Syiah Ku...
Americans, Canadians unite in battling 'eating machine' carp
Oct 05, 2025 (AFP)
Invasive carp, sometimes called Asian carp, were introduced in the United States in the 1970s. And they've never stopped spreading -- and eating everything in t...
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