WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Millions in Mexico City see water supply cut off for days

Oct 31, 2018 (AFP)

Half of the capital's eight million population were affected, with a further three million people from the neighboring State of Mexico also impacted. Mexico Cit...

Increasing frequency of ocean storms could alter kelp forest ecosystems

Oct 31, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of California, Santa Barbara experimentally mimicked the loss of undersea giant kelp forests at fou...

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...

Study: Oceans warming 60 percent more than previously thought

Oct 31, 2018 (UPI)

The study published in the journal Nature by scientists at Princeton University, University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and ot...

New technologies in the ocean energy sector

Oct 31, 2018 (SPX)

An integrated systems approach is necessary for their successful commercialisation. It still takes a level of almost science fiction fantasy to imagine that we ...

Alterations to seabed raise fears for future

Oct 30, 2018 (SPX)

Normally the deep sea bottom is a chalky white. It's composed, to a large extent, of the mineral calcite (CaCO3) formed from the skeletons and shells of many pl...

Cephalopods could become an important food source in the global community

Oct 30, 2018 (SPX)

"We know that wild fish stocks are threatened and we are finding it difficult to establish new aquaculture because of problems with pollution. At the same time,...

ElekTrik Zoo wins best short film with Locked at 6th GNG Green Earth Film Festival

Oct 25, 2018 (SPX)

Local Urban Ecologist Dr. Josh Lewis tells the one-hundred-year tumultuous history of the Industrial Canal and Lock that dissect the infamous 9th Ward of New Or...

Hurricane largely wipes out tiny Hawaiian island

Oct 25, 2018 (AFP)

East Island was a low-lying island composed mainly of loose sand and gravel, and was home to threatened nesting green sea turtles and endangered Hawaiian monk s...

Do mussels reveal the fate of the oceans

Oct 24, 2018 (SPX)

These particles are pervasive and have been found in the digestive tracts of more than 100 different species, posing physical, chemical and even potential biolo...

'Thousands' of Senegalese fishermen have vanished: Greenpeace

Oct 23, 2018 (AFP)

"At least 226 people have officially disappeared or lost their lives" in the past two years, Greenpeace Senior Oceans Campaign Manager Ibrahima Cisse told a pre...

Syracuse geologists contribute to new understanding of Mekong River incision

Oct 22, 2018 (SPX)

Gregory Hoke, associate professor and associate chair of Earth sciences, and recent SU doctoral student Gregory Ruetenik, now a post-doctoral researcher at the ...

Global sea level could rise 50 feet by 2300, study says

Oct 22, 2018 (SPX)

Since the start of the century, global average sea-level has risen by about 0.2 feet. Under moderate emissions, central estimates of global average sea-level fr...

China-backed hydro dam threatens world's rarest orangutan

Oct 21, 2018 (AFP)

The site of the dam in the Batang Toru rainforest on Sumatra island is the only known habitat of the Tapanuli orangutan, a newly discovered species that numbers...

Chile denies a glacier spat has chilled ties to Argentina

Oct 20, 2018 (AFP)

The disputed glaciers lie in a mountainous area that has been waiting to be definitively marked since 1998. It is one of the last of many often-thorny border di...

Sea snail shells dissolve in increasingly acidified oceans, study shows

Oct 19, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and the University of Plymouth, UK, assessed the impact of rising carbon dioxide levels on the large predator...

Higher temperatures could help protect coral reefs

Oct 19, 2018 (SPX)

In the face of global warming, recent years have seen an increasing number of studies predicting the future of corals. It is well established that higher water ...

Albatrosses to spy out illegal fishing

Oct 19, 2018 (AFP)

A scientific programme, designed to study the feathered giants of the air, might also help identify poaching fishing vessels, according to the Chize Biological ...

Water woes as drought leaves Germany's Rhine shallow

Oct 19, 2018 (AFP)

The water level on the Rhine on Friday reached just 77 centimetres (30 inches), 4 cm below a previous record low of 81 cm recorded in 2003, Cologne's waterworks...

EU's new Baltic fish catch quotas anger environmentalists

Oct 18, 2018 (AFP)

The ministers meeting in Luxembourg said they were on target to protect Baltic Sea fishing communities while ensuring long-term fish stocks but campaign group O...