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Wind and water: undersea drone readies to aid offshore boom
Aug 04, 2022 (AFP)
The team, which led the development of the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) at Heriot-Watt university, believe the submersible machine is a game-changer for offs...
Brussels urges EU members to reuse city water in farms
Aug 03, 2022 (AFP)
Much of Europe has been hit by a lengthy dry spell this year, and the EU executive warns that climate change could see half of the river basins in the bloc shor...
Researchers design the cheapest and most efficient squid aquaculture system to date
Aug 03, 2022 (SPX)
But all the species of squid in Japan's waters have been declining since the 1980s and their estimated population sizes are just 10% of what they previously wer...
China vlogger who ate great white shark under investigation
Aug 02, 2022 (AFP)
Footage of the vlogger, popularly known by her online pseudonym Tizi, showed her feasting on the predatory fish, which police in the central city of Nanchong co...
Utah's Great Salt Lake is disappearing
Aug 02, 2022 (ESA)
According to data from the US Geological Survey, the Great Salt Lake's surface water elevation fell to the lowest level since records began in the mid-1800s, to...
France and parts of England see driest July on record
Aug 01, 2022 (AFP)
In France, where an intense drought has hammered farmers and prompted widespread limits on freshwater use, there was just 9.7 millimetres (0.38 inches) of rain ...
W. Mediterranean hit by 'exceptional' heatwave: experts
Jul 28, 2022 (AFP)
Although the record-breaking heatwave that baked northern Europe and Britain this month has subsided, the experts said the persistently hotter-than-normal tempe...
UK sea levels rising quicker than century ago: study
Jul 28, 2022 (AFP)
The annual study -- the State of the UK Climate 2021 -- found recent decades have been "warmer, wetter and sunnier" than the 20th century. It comes hot on the h...
French regions face record water restrictions; English households urged to save water
Jul 26, 2022 (AFP)
Only a handful of "departments" around the country are exempt from the restrictions, including the Paris area, the government's drought website Propluvia shows....
High-level US delegation heads to Solomons to mark WWII amid China moves
Jul 25, 2022 (AFP)
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and other senior diplomats and military leaders will visit the islands' capital Honiara from August 6-8 and attend memor...
Seaweed onslaught disrupts S.Leone fishing and tourism
Jul 25, 2022 (AFP)
The West African state has experienced the phenomenon several times in the past, but local people say the problem seems far worse this year. "There is an unprec...
US-European satellite will make world's first global freshwater survey
Jul 25, 2022 (JPL)
A collaboration between NASA and the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatial (CNES), with contributions from the Canadian Space Agency and the Unit...
'Water police' patrol drought-hit Los Angeles streets
Jul 18, 2022 (AFP)
He is part of the city's Department of Water and Power team, which looks into hundreds of community complaints filed by neighbors each week about water waste. "...
Pacific Islands ask international court to rule on climate
Jul 18, 2022 (AFP)
In a statement released after a summit in Fiji last week, Pacific leaders issued a joint call for the Hague-based court to make clear states' obligations "to pr...
CSU researcher links real encounter with 'milky seas' to satellite pictures
Jul 17, 2022 (SPX)
Until now. In a new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Steven Miller, professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science and director of ...
Iran arrests several after protests at drying lake
Jul 17, 2022 (AFP)
Lake Urmia, in the mountains of northwest Iran, began shrinking in 1995 due to a combination of prolonged drought, and the extraction of water for farming and d...
Iraq asks Turkey to release more water; Iran arrests protesters at drying lake
Jul 16, 2022 (AFP)
Baghdad regularly complains that dams constructed in neighbouring countries impact its river levels. Water Minister Mehdi al-Hamdani and the Turkish president's...
Vulnerable Pacific islands call for 'urgent, immediate' action on climate
Jul 14, 2022 (AFP)
At a key summit in the Fijian capital Suva, island leaders warned time was running out to avoid "worst-case scenarios" that would see their countries -- many te...
Potential energy surfaces of water mapped for the first time
Jul 14, 2022 (SPX)
In addition, we know when water boils or freezes and how these phase transitions are related to pressure. But between facts on individual molecules and a deeper...
US VP Harris launches Pacific push with new embassies, envoy
Jul 13, 2022 (AFP)
Washington will open missions in Tonga and Kiribati and also appoint its first-ever Pacific regional envoy, Harris said as she pledged $600 million in funding f...
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