WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Chile drought causing water shortage amidst virus crisis

Apr 05, 2020 (AFP)

Years of resource exploitation and lax legislation have allowed most reservoirs in that part of the country to run dry. "There are now 400,000 families, nearly ...

Britain's plankton population has changed dramatically over the last 60 years

Apr 02, 2020 (UPI)

According to a new study, the changes in the abundance and distribution of the microscopic algae and animals that anchor the region's marine food chains serve a...

NASA, University of Nebraska Release New Global Groundwater Maps and U.S. Drought Forecasts

Apr 01, 2020 (SPX)

"The global products are important because there are so few worldwide drought maps out there," said hydrologist and project lead Matt Rodell of NASA's Goddard S...

Unique structural fluctuations at ice surface promote autoionization of water molecules

Mar 31, 2020 (SPX)

In contrast, in pure water molecular systems, they are generated solely by the thermal ionization of water molecules (H2O?H+hyd + OH-hyd). Therefore, the proton...

Water crisis could sabotage Zimbabwe's coronavirus lockdown

Mar 31, 2020 (AFP)

While this is a daily sight, this week things are different. The water-short southern African country is starting to enforce a 21-day lockdown to try contain th...

Study reveals where marine species are moving as oceans warm

Mar 26, 2020 (UPI)

For the study, published this week in the journal Current Biology, scientists mined some 540 records of changes in species abundance. "We drew together an exten...

Great Barrier Reef suffers mass coral bleaching event

Mar 26, 2020 (AFP)

The planet's largest coral reef system is worth an estimated $4 billion a year in tourism revenue for the Australian economy, but is at risk of losing its covet...

Satellite data boosts understanding of climate change's effects on kelp

Mar 23, 2020 (SPX)

And the Landsat pictures paved the way to some surprising findings: A summer of warm water isn't automatically bad news for kelps, and large winter waves aren't...

The mighty Nile, threatened by waste, warming, mega-dam

Mar 20, 2020 (AFP)

Egypt's lifeline since Pharaonic days and the source of 97 percent of its water is under massive strain from pollution and climate change and now the threat of ...

Study shows changes in Great Barrier Reef fish during heat wave

Mar 20, 2020 (UPI)

The study, published Friday in the journal Science Advances, examined the molecular response of five species during a heat wave in which one-third of corals on ...

Water theft a growing concern in increasingly-dry Spain

Mar 20, 2020 (AFP)

Digging an illegal well to irrigate crops is a widespread practice in Spain as water becomes increasingly scarce. But around 100 such boreholes have been blocke...

Sugar brings a lot of carbon dioxide into the deeper sea

Mar 19, 2020 (SPX)

This gap of knowledge sparked the interest of the research group Marine Glycobiology, which is located at the Max Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology and th...

No soap, no water: billions lack basic protection against virus

Mar 19, 2020 (AFP)

The outbreak has infected some 200,000 people and killed 9,000, scorching through populations across the globe after emerging in China late last year. While Eur...

Scientists quantify how wave power drives coastal erosion

Mar 18, 2020 (SPX)

Now researchers at MIT and elsewhere have found that, in Hawaii, the amount of energy delivered by waves averaged over each year is a good predictor of how fast...

DARPA awards contracts for work on Manta Ray program

Mar 12, 2020 (SPX)

DARPA has selected three companies to focus on development of an integrated solution for Manta Ray technology and operational areas. They are: + Lockheed Martin...

Ship noise disrupts camouflage abilities of shore crabs

Mar 09, 2020 (UPI)

Most research into the effects of noise pollution has focused on marine mammals, like whales and dolphins, that use sonar to communicate and hunt for prey. The ...

Changes in oxygen, temperature could reshape deep sea fish communities

Mar 05, 2020 (UPI)

But thanks to the efforts of a team of marine biologists and oceanographers, scientists are gaining a better understanding of the influence of oxygen and temper...

Waves and tides have bigger impact on marine life than human activity

Mar 05, 2020 (SPX)

Combining data on species, human impacts, and wave and tide patterns, the study, by a Swansea University team, provides the most comprehensive picture to date o...

Deep-sea coral gardens discovered in the submarine canyons off south Western Australia

Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)

The team strategically collected deep-sea corals, associated fauna, seawater, and geological samples from the abyssal depths (~4,000 meters) to the continental ...

Reef-building coral exhibiting 'disaster traits' akin to the last major extinction event

Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)

The research team - which includes scientists from The Graduate Center, CUNY; Baruch College; Scripps Institution of Oceanography; University of Haifa; Universi...