WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Reduced salinity of seawater wreaks havoc on coral chemistry

Mar 04, 2019 (SPX)

Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University (Coral CoE) and University of Technology Sydney (UTS) report that ...

Warm seas scatter fish

Mar 04, 2019 (SPX)

A team of scientists led by Christopher Free, a postdoctoral scholar at UC Santa Barbara's Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, has published an...

Can we address climate change without sacrificing water quality?

Feb 28, 2019 (SPX)

Rainfall and other precipitation wash nutrients from human activities like agriculture into waterways. When waterways get overloaded with nutrients, a dangerous...

Cool adaptations to the cold

Feb 28, 2019 (SPX)

But yet there is one species of fish that even feels at home under such hostile conditions and that reproduces there: the so-called icefish from the Nototheniid...

A water-splitting catalyst unlike any other

Feb 28, 2019 (SPX)

The focus is mostly on the so-called oxygen evolution reaction (OER), which is arguably the most challenging process in water splitting. After many years of int...

High-powered fuel cell boosts electric-powered submersibles, drones

Feb 28, 2019 (SPX)

A team of engineers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a high-power fuel cell that advances technology in...

Ecosystem responses to dam removal complex, but predictable

Feb 28, 2019 (SPX)

Published in the journal BioScience, the study identifies a consistent set of physical and biological processes that control ecological responses to dam removal...

Risk remains low despite rise in global shark attacks

Feb 28, 2019 (SPX)

A spate of shark attacks in North Carolina in 2015 made Midway, whose expertise is in fish ecology, curious about whether these events were unprecedented or nor...

NASA Study Reproduces Origins of Life on Ocean Floor

Feb 27, 2019 (JPL)

Astrobiologist Laurie Barge and her team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are working to recognize life on other planets by studying...

Biologists name new deep-sea shark species after 30 years of research

Feb 27, 2019 (UPI)

University of Rhode Island shark researcher Bradley Wetherbee named the deep sea species Laila's lantern shark after his 17-year-old daughter, Laila Mostello-We...

Unprecedented biological changes in the global ocean

Feb 27, 2019 (SPX)

Using a new computer model, an international team led by the CNRS and involving, in France, researchers from Sorbonne University has demonstrated that biologica...

Robinson Crusoe island sets example for the world in conservation

Feb 26, 2019 (AFP)

One of three islands in the Juan Fernandez archipelago, 700 kilometers (430 miles) off the Pacific coast of Chile, it was discovered in the sixteenth century. T...

Rare oarfish, seen as harbingers of doom, snagged in Japan

Feb 26, 2019 (AFP)

Fishermen were stunned to find a pair of the silvery fish -- the bigger one measuring four metres (13 feet) -- alive in their nets late last month as the number...

More water resources over the Sahel region of Africa in the 21st century under global warming

Feb 25, 2019 (SPX)

A group of scientists from Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences found that the projection uncertainty of Sahel summer precipitation amo...

Marshall Islands consider radical measures to survive rising sea levels

Feb 23, 2019 (AFP)

Plans are underway for national talks on which of the 1,156 islands, scattered over 29 coral atolls, can be elevated in a dramatic intervention to ensure safety...

Deadly brawl aboard Taiwan fishing boat sparks rescue operation

Feb 20, 2019 (AFP)

A nearby Taiwanese boat responded to the distress call and rescued four seamen from the waters 1,500 nautical miles northeast of Mauritius. "Many of the crew me...

The race to save Myanmar's Inle Lake

Feb 19, 2019 (AFP)

Each year around 200,000 foreigners and one million locals visit Inle -- a vast, serene body of water surrounded by verdant hills. Many criss-cross the lake on ...

Oil spill fears for ship stranded on Pacific reef

Feb 19, 2019 (AFP)

Officials said water had already breached the hull of the MV Solomon Trader, which ran aground on February 5, and one unconfirmed report said oil was leaking fr...

Great white sharks are capable of high speeds but prefer to mosey

Feb 19, 2019 (UPI)

Unlike most other fish, great whites are endothermic, which means they keep their body temperature warmer than the surrounding water. In theory, the trait shoul...

Five teams will help DARPA detect undersea activity by analyzing behaviors of marine organisms

Feb 18, 2019 (SPX)

Five teams of researchers are developing new types of sensor systems that detect and record the behaviors of these marine organisms and interpret them to identi...