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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 ...
Spa water's origins deep below the Earth's surface
Jan 11, 2024 (SPX)
The researchers employed sophisticated numerical modeling to trace the isotopic evolution of this water. They found that various types of water, such as those f...
Papua New Guinea vows crackdown after 15 killed in riots
Jan 11, 2024 (AFP)
Violence erupted in the capital Port Moresby on Wednesday evening after a group of soldiers, police officers and prison guards launched protests against the gov...
China lodges complaint over attacks on shops in PNG: embassy
Jan 11, 2024 (AFP)
"The Chinese Embassy in Papua New Guinea has lodged solemn representations with the Papua New Guinea side over the attacks on the Chinese shops," a statement on...
Meteorite analysis shows Earth's building blocks contained water
Jan 10, 2024 (SPX)
Researchers have long tried to understand the ancient environments in which these planetesimals formed. For example, water is now abundant on Earth, but has it ...
Scientists decode genome of sea cucumber thriving in hydrothermal vents
Jan 10, 2024 (SPX)
Hydrothermal vents, known for their rapid temperature fluctuations and challenging chemical makeup, including acidic pH, sulfur, and methane richness, present a...
The choreography connecting kelp forests to the beach
Jan 10, 2024 (SPX)
In a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of scientists demonstrated that kelp forests can do more than supp...
Norway greenlights deep-sea mining exploration
Jan 09, 2024 (AFP)
The proposal to gradually open up a 280,000-square-kilometre (108,100 square mile) area, mostly in the Arctic, was approved by the Storting, with 80 votes in fa...
Groundwater is vital to the health of our planet: A call for greater protection
Jan 08, 2024 (SPX)
"Groundwater is not only in itself a major ecosystem but is also of critical relevance to ecosystems on the Earth's surface," emphasized Professor Robert Reinec...
Bottled water contains hundreds of thousands of plastic bits: study
Jan 08, 2024 (AFP)
Using a recently invented technique, scientists counted on average 240,000 detectable fragments of plastic per liter of water in popular brands -- between 10-10...
Surface-based sonar system could rapidly map the ocean floor at high resolution
Jan 03, 2024 (SPX)
Deep-ocean search and recovery is one of the many missions of military services like the U.S. Coast Guard Office of Search and Rescue and the U.S. Navy Supervis...
In coastal communities, sea level rise may leave some isolated
Jan 01, 2024 (SPX)
While accelerating sea level rise will result in widespread intermittent flooding and long-term inundation in many coastal communities, the paper, recently publ...
Breakthrough in hydrate-based desalination technique unveiled
Jan 01, 2024 (SPX)
Hydrate desalination technology, known for its eco-friendly freshwater production capabilities, offers a low-energy solution that can be effectively used in tre...
Surf's up: Big waves pound US West Coast
Dec 29, 2023 (AFP)
Rollers as high as 30 feet (nine meters) were expected to lash parts of California and Oregon as a powerful storm capped a year of wild -- and often wet -- weat...
CORRECTED: Spain's Galicia struggles with mass shellfish die-off
Dec 21, 2023 (AFP)
The nutrient-rich silt of Galicia's chilly Atlantic estuaries -- known as rias -- is normally fertile ground but not after extended periods of heatwaves and abn...
Spain's Galicia struggles with mass shellfish die-off
Dec 21, 2023 (AFP)
The nutrient-rich silt of Galicia's chilly Atlantic estuaries -- known as rias -- is normally fertile ground but not after extended periods of heatwaves and abn...
Shrinking Caspian Sea worries secretive Turkmenistan
Dec 21, 2023 (AFP)
"I used to go between Turkmenbashi and Hazar," the 36-year-old ferry worker said of the ports separated by a small gulf on Turkmenistan's coast. "But we haven't...
Denmark sees record precipitation for 2023
Dec 20, 2023 (AFP)
The annual tally of snow and rainfall as of Wednesday was over 907 millimeters (35.7 inches), national meteorological institute DMI said with over a week left i...
Egypt, Ethiopia trade blame over failed dam talks
Dec 20, 2023 (AFP)
Negotiations between Ethiopia and downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan have yet to produce an agreement since construction of the $4.2 billion project began in...
Native oysters return to Belfast after a century's absence
Dec 17, 2023 (AFP)
Until the early 1900s, the narrow Belfast Lough channel was home to large oyster reefs but overfishing, disease and pollution gradually decimated the population...
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