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Pacific looks to international court for help on climate
Jul 13, 2022 (AFP)
The Pacific nation of Vanuatu is spearheading a campaign to ask the Hague-based tribunal "to protect the rights of present and future generations against the ef...
Pacific leaders struggle to keep focus on climate at key summit
Jul 12, 2022 (AFP)
This year's Pacific Islands Forum is the region's most important meeting in years, coming after a Covid-enforced hiatus and as low-lying tropical isles run out ...
Austria and Hungary fight nature to stop lake vanishing
Jul 11, 2022 (AFP)
The salt lake and its marshes -- the largest of its kind in Europe and a UNESCO world heritage site -- could soon run completely dry, and locals are worried. Th...
'Desperate for water': drought hits Mexican industrial powerhouse
Jul 10, 2022 (AFP)
Nestled in mountains a few hours' drive from the US border, industrial powerhouse Monterrey boasts living standards that many Mexicans could only dream of. Resi...
New research finds deep-sea mining noise pollution will stretch hundreds of miles
Jul 08, 2022 (SPX)
The study by scientists from Oceans Initiative, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan, Curtin University in Austr...
What is a pond? Study provides first data-driven definition
Jul 07, 2022 (SPX)
"The lack of a universal pond definition causes a lot of confusion, from people wondering about the difference between a pond and a lake, to aquatic monitoring ...
Wellington wastewater a security headache for China
Jul 07, 2022 (AFP)
The pipe is large enough for people to walk through and runs under a block of land where the new Chinese embassy is to be built. "Security is the issue," Wellin...
Researchers uncover life's power generators in the Earth's oldest groundwaters
Jul 06, 2022 (SPX)
"Ten years ago, we discovered billion-year-old groundwater from below the Canadian Shield - this was just the beginning, it seems," says Barbara Sherwood Lollar...
Mineral overgrowths reveal unprecedented modern sea-level rise
Jul 06, 2022 (SPX)
The study, featured on the cover of the July 1 issue of Science Advances, works to identify preindustrial sea levels and examines the impact of modern greenhous...
Deadpool: US mega drought spells trouble at Hoover Dam
Jul 05, 2022 (AFP)
But the mega drought affecting the western United States is sending reservoir levels plummeting towards deadpool -- the point at which the dam can no longer pro...
Italy declares drought emergency in 5 northern regions
Jul 04, 2022 (AFP)
The cabinet approved a state of emergency in five regions -- Friuli-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lombardy, Piedmont and Veneto -- until December 31, the gove...
US mega drought makes boating rough on Lake Mead
Jul 03, 2022 (AFP)
Launch spots that lined the edge of the lake, located outside Las Vegas, have been abandoned, and a single ramp is now the only way to get a boat in the water. ...
Outgunned island states vow to fight deep-sea mining
Jul 01, 2022 (AFP)
The stakes are potentially enormous. Companies keen to scrape the ocean floor five to six thousand metres (17,000 to 20,000 feet) below sea level stand to earn ...
Pacific islands research yields new findings on world's earliest seafarers
Jul 01, 2022 (SPX)
The work, described in the journal Science, reveals five previously undocumented migrations into a subregion of this area and suggests that about 2,500 to 3,500...
UN urges ambitious action to protect the oceans
Jul 01, 2022 (AFP)
"Greater ambition is required at all levels to address the dire state of the ocean," the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon said in its final declaration. The meetin...
Waterways in Brazil's Manaus choked by tons of trash
Jul 01, 2022 (AFP)
On the west side of the city, in a poor neighborhood where homes have been erected on stilts, a worker uses an excavator to scoop up a bucket-load of bottles, p...
France, Costa Rica eye next UN Ocean Conference
Jun 30, 2022 (AFP)
"We should -- as was done for climate in Paris in 2015 -- set ambitious objectives for biodiversity, especially for oceans," he said in plenary. "In the coming ...
India's women water warriors transform parched lands
Jun 30, 2022 (AFP)
The world's second-most populous country is struggling to meet the water needs of its 1.4 billion people -- a problem worsening as climate change makes weather ...
The world's rivers are changing, here's how
Jun 30, 2022 (SPX)
Using satellite images from NASA Landsat and digital archives of hydrologic data, Dartmouth researchers examined changes in how much sediment is carried to the ...
UN meet sees blitz of pledges to protect ailing oceans
Jun 28, 2022 (AFP)
UN chief Antonio Guterres set the tone Monday for the five-day meet by warning that the world's oceans are in deep crisis. "Today we face what I would call an o...
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