WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

One million years of precipitation history of the monsoon reconstructed

Nov 09, 2018 (SPX)

But how exactly does this important climate system work? And how will it change in response to future global warming? "Even the best coupled ocean-atmosphere mo...

Australia revamps Pacific strategy as China looms

Nov 08, 2018 (AFP)

Beijing is piling investment into the Pacific, sending ever more fishing vessels deeper into its waters and reportedly mulling the construction of a military ba...

Scientists theorize new origin story for Earth's water

Nov 08, 2018 (SPX)

In a new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, researchers propose a new theory to address the lon...

Filtering liquids with liquids saves electricity

Nov 08, 2018 (SPX)

One of the most common methods of processing water is passing it through a membrane with pores that are sized to filter out particles that are larger than water...

ASU geoscientists discover an overlooked source for Earth's water

Nov 08, 2018 (SPX)

So where is it? Mostly down in our planet's core, but more about that in a minute. The bigger question is where did all this come from in the first place. "Come...

Modern slavery is fueling overfishing

Nov 07, 2018 (UPI)

With commercial fishing stocks declining across Earth's oceans, fishing operations must do twice as much fishing to bring home the hauls boats were catching a f...

Plasma-based system provides radical new path for water purification

Nov 07, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville have been studying a new type of plasma generator for water purification. The new generator pulses voltag...

Taiwan fishermen protest over crackdown on troubled industry

Nov 06, 2018 (AFP)

The rally by coastal and long-haul fishermen in the capital Taipei is the latest challenge to President Tsai Ing-wen who has already faced major protests by dis...

Poop in hand, Bill Gates backs China's toilet revolution

Nov 06, 2018 (AFP)

So it came as a surprise when the founder of Microsoft brandished a jar of human waste at a forum on the future of the toilet in Beijing on Tuesday. The stunt w...

Mexico City's massive water outage extended

Nov 06, 2018 (AFP)

The main water system that supplies the sprawling capital of 20 million people was shut off on October 31 to make what officials say are vital upgrades to the n...

Hydropower, innovations and avoiding international dam shame

Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)

The developing world can - and must - turn to better ways to generate hydropower for industry and livelihoods. The case is outlined in "Sustainable hydropower i...

A carbon neutral solution for desalination by tapping into geothermal sources

Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)

Countries such as Saudi Arabia rely on desalination plants to provide drinking water to their residents, producing 5 million cubic meters of desalinated water p...

How to reduce the impact of shipping vessel noise on fish

Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)

One concern with vessel transits is how noise pollution can detrimentally affect marine animals - including Arctic cod - given the critical importance of these ...

New material cleans and splits water

Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)

Because MOFs are so versatile in both their structural design and usefulness, material scientists are currently testing them in a number of chemical application...

Dam problems, win-win solutions

Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)

What's the dam problem? In some parts of the world, there are proposals to build thousands of massive new dams for hydroelectricity, flood control and irrigatio...

'Robust' coral produces amino acids to defend against bleaching

Nov 02, 2018 (UPI)

Researchers recently discovered that so-called "robust" coral, which includes certain brain corals and mushroom corals, are capable of producing special amino a...

Earth's oceans have absorbed 60 percent more heat than previously thought

Nov 01, 2018 (SPX)

The researchers reported in the journal Nature Nov. 1 that the world's oceans took up more than 13 zettajoules - which is a joule, the standard unit of energy, ...

Palau plans sunscreen ban to save coral

Nov 01, 2018 (AFP)

Palau, which lies in the western Pacific about halfway between Australia and Japan, is regarded as one of the world's best diving destinations, but the governme...

Oceans heating faster than previously thought: study

Nov 01, 2018 (AFP)

Oceans cover more than two thirds of the planet's surface and play a vital role in sustaining life on Earth. According to their most recent assessment this mont...

Frequency not severity has greater impact of giant kelp forests

Oct 31, 2018 (SPX)

"Giant kelp's complex physical structure that extends throughout the water column and its very high productivity are unique," said Bob Miller, a research biolog...