Category Archives: water

Delta

Posted on October 19, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

Deltas have long played an important role in human history. These fertile areas where rivers flow into large bodies of water have served as fishing, farming, and living sites. Of the great deltas around the world, perhaps none has had … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, Landforms, water | 3 Comments

Shanghai Skyline Could Worsen Threat of Rising Seas

Posted on October 6, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

Shanghai, China’s most populous city and an aspiring global financial center, is also among the world’s most vulnerable urban areas to a rise in sea levels as global warming melts polar ice. Its location on a low-lying alluvial plain near … Continue reading →

Posted in climate change, Countries, earth, Environment, Global Warming, oceans, water | 2 Comments

World’s first wave energy farm goes live

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

On Tuesday the 23th of September, the deployment of the first commercial wave energy farm in the world started. A Pelamis unit was towed into the sea, connected to an underwater cable and moored to the sea floor, at a … Continue reading →

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Scientists to boost Southern Ocean CO2 monitoring

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

Oceans absorb vast amounts of carbon dioxide and the Southern Ocean between Australia and Antarctica plays the greatest role of all the world’s oceans, scientists say. The problem is there is no permanent monitoring of the Southern Ocean because of … Continue reading →