WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Discovery of parasitic arsenic cycle may offer glimpse of life in future, warmer oceans

Mar 20, 2019 (SPX)

The research, conducted by Oregon State University scientists in the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda, also may explain how the bacteria, SAR11, came to be so prolific...

Nile crisis must be solved to avoid conflict: report

Mar 20, 2019 (AFP)

Egypt, which relies almost totally on the Nile for irrigation and drinking water, fears the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam being built on the Blue Nile could r...

EPFL researchers make a key discovery on how alpine streams work

Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)

This discovery - appearing in Nature Geoscience - will enable scientists to develop more accurate models of the role that mountain streams play in global biogeo...

Fuelled by China fears, Russians protest Baikal bottling plant

Mar 16, 2019 (AFP)

Ecologists and local authorities have previously touted bottling the water of the world's largest lake as a "green" way of profiting from Siberia's natural reso...

Millions hit in Manila's 'worst' water shortage

Mar 15, 2019 (AFP)

Taps are dry from four to 20 hours per day in the homes of about half of the Philippine capital's roughly 12 million people due to rolling outages driven by a d...

Ocean sink for man-made CO2 measured

Mar 15, 2019 (SPX)

The ocean takes up CO2 in two steps: first, the CO2 dissolves in the surface water. Afterwards, the ocean's overturning circulation distributes it: ocean curren...

In Caracas, water an obsession after days of blackout

Mar 15, 2019 (AFP)

The quest for drinkable water has rapidly become an obsession for millions like her in Caracas days after a crippling power blackout stalled the city's pumps. I...

How marine snow cools the planet

Mar 14, 2019 (SPX)

The study, published in Geology, also helps our understanding of the ocean's future capacity to store carbon dioxide, which is vital given warming-ocean acidity...

Hydroelectric dams harm coastal ecosystems downstream

Mar 14, 2019 (UPI)

Mangrove forests, wetlands and other estuarine habitats are already facing the threat of rising sea levels. Now, new research suggests these ecosystems are disr...

Southern Ocean acidification puts marine organisms at risk

Mar 13, 2019 (SPX)

University of Colorado Boulder and University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers collaborated on the study, which was published in the journal Nature Climate Chang...

The Atlantic Ocean is rising and 11-year-old Levi is worried

Mar 13, 2019 (AFP)

"I don't even know if the Earth is going to be around when I'm older at the rate that we're going," Levi told AFP in a phone interview before his swim class in ...

Marine heat wave inspired record northern migration of warm-water species

Mar 12, 2019 (UPI)

During the heatwave, scientists at the University of California, Davis, documented dozens of unusual species at their Bodega Marine Laboratory, species -- inclu...

Taiwan leader to visit Pacific allies to firm up ties

Mar 12, 2019 (AFP)

Tsai will visit Palau, Nauru and Marshall Islands between March 21 and March 28 -- her second official visit to the Pacific amid growing concerns about China ta...

Ocean life in 3D: Mapping phytoplankton with a smart AUV

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

Trygve Olav Fossum watched an orange, torpedo-shaped instrument slide off the R/V Gunnerus and plop into the coastal waters near the island called Runde. It was...

Probing water's skin

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

The air-water interface has even been postulated as the cradle of life. However, factors such as its subnanometer size and dynamic nature, render the investigat...

Australia admits failings in Pacific, as China looms

Mar 09, 2019 (AFP)

"I think we would have to accept some criticism," Australia's minister for international development and the Pacific, Anne Ruston, told AFP on Friday. "We have ...

Hammerhead shark refuge found in Galapagos

Mar 08, 2019 (AFP)

This natural refuge off the island of Santa Cruz is home to about 20 of the sharks, the environment ministry said. It is the second such refuge detected in the ...

Rain is important for how carbon dioxide affects grasslands

Mar 07, 2019 (SPX)

An important, but uncertain, factor in climate research is the extent to which all ecosystems can accumulate carbon from the increasing atmospheric concentratio...

Demo outside World Bank offices in Beirut over dam project

Mar 04, 2019 (AFP)

"Bisri Dam = Destruction, Pollution, Earthquakes" and "Save The Bisri Valley", read banners and posters carried by the dozens of demonstrators gathered in downt...

Ocean heatwaves devastate wildlife, worse to come

Mar 04, 2019 (AFP)

The number of marine heatwave days has increased by more than 50 percent since the mid-20th century, researchers reported in the journal Nature Climate Change. ...