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'The marshes are dead': Iraqi buffalo herders wander in search of water
AFP, Published on 26/08/2025
» CHIBAYISH (IRAQ) - Like his father, Iraqi buffalo herder Watheq Abbas grazes his animals in Iraq's southern wetlands, but with persistent drought shrinking marshland where they feed and decimating the herd, his millennia-old way of life is threatened.
Preservationists race to save 17th century Swedish warship
AFP, Published on 09/04/2025
» STOCKHOLM - A Swedish museum has launched a massive four-year project to preserve the sagging hull of the Vasa, a majestic warship that sank nearly 400 years ago and is now one of Sweden's most popular tourist attractions.
Kazakhstan says part of Aral Sea has nearly doubled in volume
AFP, Published on 14/01/2025
» ALMATY (KAZAKHSTAN) - Kazakhstan said on Monday the northern part of the Aral Sea had nearly doubled in volume since 2008, a rare environmental success story in a region plagued by pollution.
Volunteer divers guard Oman's 'unique' coral reefs
AFP, Published on 04/12/2023
» DAYMANIYAT ISLANDS (OMAN) - On a sailing boat anchored off Oman's pristine Daymaniyat Islands, volunteer divers pull on wetsuits, check their scuba tanks and then take turns plunging into the clear turquoise water.
Against the stream: Iraq artist battles to save boating tradition
AFP, Published on 22/05/2023
» BAGHDAD - Young Iraqis row a flotilla of traditional wooden boats down the Tigris river in Baghdad, celebrating an ancient nautical heritage in the now drought-stricken country.
'Kind of complicated': Growing grapes in the world's driest desert
AFP, Published on 24/05/2022
» SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA (CHILE) - In the middle of Chile's Atacama desert, the driest in the world, Hector Espindola has an unexpected job: he runs a vineyard.
In the deserts of Dubai, salmon farming thrives
AFP, Published on 19/11/2019
» DUBAI - From a control room in the middle of Dubai's desert, Norway's sunrises and sunsets and the cool currents of the Atlantic are recreated for the benefit of thousands of salmon raised in tanks despite searing conditions outside.
High above Greenland glaciers, NASA looks into melting ocean ice
AFP, Published on 26/08/2019
» ON A NASA DC3 ABOVE GREENLAND (GREENLAND) - Skimming low over the gleaming white glaciers on Greenland's coast in a modified 1940s plane, three NASA scientists, led by an Elvis-impersonating oceanographer, waited to drop a probe into the water beneath them.
Chilean Patagonia: an open-air lab to study climate change
AFP, Published on 14/01/2019
» SENO BALLENA (CHILE) - In one of the most inhospitable places on Earth, the southernmost part of Chile's Patagonia region, scientists are studying whales, dolphins and algae in order to help predict how climate change will affect the world's oceans.
World's oceans are heating up at a quickening pace
AFP, Published on 11/01/2019
» TAMPA: The world's oceans are heating up at an accelerating pace as global warming threatens a diverse range of marine life and a major food supply for the planet, researchers said on Thursday.