search tools

Antarctic marine reserves deal within reach as Russia thaws environmental stance

Edit The Guardian 17 Oct 2016
After five years of failed negotiations, conservations are hopeful Russia is prepared to make a deal to protect the Ross Sea and East Antarctica ... The commission has been working since 2011 towards protecting a range of areas in the Southern Ocean ... This year there are signs Russia, which is chairing the meeting for the second year in a row, is prepared to make a deal to protect the Ross Sea and possibly East Antarctica....

Can't concede sea claims to China, Philippines leader says

Edit Arkansas Online 17 Oct 2016
MANILA, Philippines -- The Philippine president acknowledged Sunday that he can be impeached if he concedes his country's territorial claims in the South China Sea in talks with President Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders this week in Beijing ... I would be impeached," the president said at a news conference at the international airport in the southern city of Davao before embarking on his two-nation trip....

UAE weather: Rain expected over the next two days

Edit The National 17 Oct 2016
On Sunday, rain fell in the southern areas of Ras Al Khaimah and more is expected on Monday with otherwise mild weather forecast ... Conditions at sea will be moderate in the Arabian Gulf and ......

Decreasing Vulnerability for our Beach-Based Businesses (Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Oct 2016
Sea-level rise and extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change impact Maine's coastline and are anticipated to increase in frequency and strength ... This project will adapt and transfer the Tourism Resilience Index, previously developed for the Gulf of Mexico by the Mississippi Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, to Southern Maine....

Eighth Antarctic Ice Survey Launches (Goddard Space Flight Center)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Oct 2016
Down south, the mission observed a big drop in the height of two glaciers situated in the Antarctic Peninsula, while in the north it collected much needed measurements of the status of land and sea ice at the end of the Arctic summer melt season ... Heimdal Glacier in southern Greenland, in an image captured on Oct. 13, 2015, from NASA Langley Research Center's Falcon 20 aircraft flying 33,000 feet above mean sea level....

Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea

Edit The Associated Press 17 Oct 2016
BEIJING (AP) -- A look at recent developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves. ... This is a weekly look at the latest key developments in the South China Sea, home to several territorial conflicts that have raised tensions in the region....

Government plan to save sea turtle eggs dubbed 'hypocritical'

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 17 Oct 2016
Efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change on sea turtles are being ramped up on the southern Great Barrier Reef coast, as a joint Federal and State Government program expands the use of shade cloth to reduce the temperature for turtle egg incubation ... ....

Norfolk-based USS San Antonio came under missile attack with USS Mason, captain says

Edit The Virginian-Pilot 17 Oct 2016
The USS San Antonio was fired upon along with the USS Mason this past week as it transited through the Bab al-Mandeb strait on the southern end of the Red Sea, according to the amphibious transport dock's commanding officer ... ....

Ceremony to mark start of polar ship construction

Edit BBC News 17 Oct 2016
There is growing interest, for example, in tourism at the poles; and regular cargo routes are likely to open up as the seasonal extent of sea-ice in the far north continues to diminish ... Some of this equipment will go into the sea through an enclosed "moon pool", or "wet porch", inside the vessel ... could lead to many metres of sea-level rise."....

Mark, a white rhino in a Zimbabwe, got his snout stuck in a tire

Edit The Washington Post 17 Oct 2016
Trash from Harare and nearby towns is becoming more commonplace around the lake as a persistent drought continues throughout southern Africa. In September, NewsDay Zimbabwe reported that the Zimbabwe National Water Authority found that dam levels in the country’s southern region were below 30 percent capacity, marking a critically low stage far before the rainy season is expected to begin in November....

China on highest alert for ocean waves as Typhoon Sarika approaches

Edit China Daily 17 Oct 2016
From noon on Monday to noon on Tuesday, the typhoon is expected to bring waves of up to 12 meters in central and northern areas of the South China Sea ... Rainstorms are expected in most of southern China over the next three to five days. ....

The winner of the 2016 Penguin Election is…

Edit Treehugger 17 Oct 2016
“A study in Nature Climate Change predicted that the global population of these penguins will decline by 19 to 33 percent by the end of this century due mostly to climate change and associated shifts in sea ice, which are forecast to affect where the emperor can breed and how far it must travel to hunt ... sets fishing policy in the Southern Ocean....

Pakistan Says 3rd Chinese-built Nuclear Reactor Goes Into Operation

Edit Voa News 17 Oct 2016
Canada helped Pakistan build its first nuclear power plant 44 years ago in the southern port city of Karachi, which Riaz said is currently generating around 80 megawatts of electricity ... Under the agreement, Beijing will also provide enriched uranium for fuel ... Beijing is also investing billions of dollars to build an energy corridor to link Western China and Pakistan’s southern deep-water port of Gwadar in the Arabian Sea ... ....
×
×
×
×