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Great Barrier Reef suffers 'widespread' bleaching event

Mar 18, 2022 (AFP)

Surveillance flights over the reef revealed damage due to heat stress ranging from minor to severe bleaching across the 2,300-kilometre (1,243-mile) network of ...

Microscopic ocean predator with a taste for carbon capture

Mar 15, 2022 (SPX)

The microbe, abundant around the world, photosynthesises and releases a carbon-rich exopolymer that attracts and immobilises other microbes. It then eats some o...

Sparkling pools, empty taps: Cape Town's stark water divide

Mar 15, 2022 (AFP)

It's been four years since South Africa's tourist capital nearly ran dry, during a drought that left the city limping towards a "Day Zero" when all the pipes wo...

Yangon residents queue for water as power blackouts bite

Mar 14, 2022 (AFP)

Last week the junta announced the country's already patchy power supply would be further reduced for seven days, blaming rising gas prices and attacks by anti-c...

Long look at Hawaiian corals suggests reasons for optimism amid warming seas, ocean acidification

Mar 11, 2022 (SPX)

Led by Oregon State University postdoctoral researcher Rowan McLachlan, the study is important because understanding the factors behind coral health is crucial ...

Electric Truck Hydropower, a flexible solution to hydropower in mountainous regions

Mar 08, 2022 (SPX)

In our transition towards a more sustainable future, hydropower will likely grow in importance as a renewable energy source. Despite its potential, innovation i...

Increasing frequency of El Nino events expected by 2040

Mar 08, 2022 (SPX)

El Nino - the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean -affects climate, ecosystems and societies worldwide. The study examined f...

Corals can be trained to tolerate heat stress, study finds

Mar 04, 2022 (SPX)

These findings offer coral restoration scientists with a new approach to potentially increase the success rate of planting nursery-raised staghorn coral onto de...

Rapid evolution fuels transcriptional plasticity in fish species to cope with ocean acidification

Mar 04, 2022 (SPX)

Global ocean surface pH is projected to decline with the ongoing uptake of anthropogenic atmospheric CO2 by the oceans, a process termed ocean acidification (OA...

China's high-quality natural streamflow gauge-based dataset (1961-2018)

Feb 28, 2022 (SPX)

In the current study, the researchers adopted a well-trained and tested land surface model coupled to a routing model with flow direction correction to reconstr...

Russia says captured key water supply route to Crimea

Feb 25, 2022 (AFP)

Crimea received most of its water from Ukraine's Dnieper River via the North Crimean Canal until 2014, when Moscow annexed the peninsula and Kyiv authorities bl...

Satellite laser altimetry helps monitor changes in global lake water storage

Feb 24, 2022 (SPX)

However, it's been difficult to evaluate changes in global lake-water volume across space and time due to data problems. Specifically, ground-monitoring data ha...

Global warming is rapidly amplifying our water cycle

Feb 24, 2022 (SPX)

But rising global temperatures have been making this system more extreme: water is moving away from dry regions towards wet regions, causing droughts to worsen ...

Sudan slams Ethiopia move at controversial Nile dam

Feb 22, 2022 (AFP)

Sudan "has emphasised its rejection of all unilateral measures with regard to filling and operation" of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the spokesman for i...

Reducing the negatives of Amazon hydropower expansion

Feb 18, 2022 (SPX)

Coauthor Stephen Hamilton, an ecosystem ecologist at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies explains, "Continued hydropower development in the Amazon is inevitable...

Mysteries and music: listening in to underwater life

Feb 18, 2022 (AFP)

"We recorded over 30 seagrasses and it was always there and no-one knew the species that was producing this kwa! kwa! kwa!" said Lucia Di Iorio, a researcher in...

Sea Level to rise up to a foot by 2050

Feb 17, 2022 (JPL)

The report - an update to a 2017 report - forecasts sea level to the year 2150 and, for the first time, offers near-term projections for the next 30 years. Agen...

Seagrasses continue to release methane after their die-off

Feb 17, 2022 (SPX)

Sina Schorn and her colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and Hydra Marine Sciences first investigated what the methane in the seagra...

Where on Earth did the water come from

Feb 15, 2022 (SPX)

The source of Earth's water has been a longstanding debate and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists think they have the answer - and they fo...

Pursuing carbon neutrality and water security in China

Feb 15, 2022 (SPX)

Man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions need to fall by about 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, and reach "net zero" by mid-century to give the world a chance of li...