EU invests in ocean monitoring as US cuts funding
The EU is expanding its ocean monitoring network with underwater drones and satellites as climate change intensifies heat waves and storms.
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Scientists lose critical climate record as ocean observatory will go dark under Trump funding cuts
The Trump administration is dismantling a $386 million network of more than 900 ocean sensors funded by the National Science Foundation. An expert told The Associated Press Tuesday that it’s a crippling loss of information.
Supreme Court settles long-running water dispute over dwindling Rio Grande
The U.S. Supreme Court has adopted a settlement designed to end a long-running feud over management of one of North America’s longest rivers.
A warmer world creates bigger and more damaging hailstones, study says
A new study says the size and damage from hailstones will increase in a warming world.
Companies join a deep-sea mining rush after Trump executive order, as regulators fast-track permits
Since President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a deep-sea mining industry, businesses have raised millions from investors.
US-Mexico border wall construction is desecrating sacred sites, Indigenous leaders say
Indigenous leaders say that federal contractors are desecrating sacred Native American places and cultural sites at an unprecedented pace in the rush to build more walls on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Volunteers attack invasive weeds as 9-day San Diego River Days ends
About 1,000 volunteers participated in dozens of events over nine days along several stretches of the 52-mile San Diego river, according to the San Diego River Park Foundation
Scientists find climate change is reducing oxygen in rivers worldwide
Global warming is causing rivers to slowly lose oxygen, threatening fish and other lives.
Orphaned bear cubs continue to grow, move to outdoor enclosure in Ramona
The brother bears are now 4 months old and eating solid food at the San Diego Humane Society’s Ramona Wildlife Center.
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