WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Lebanon sinks old tanks to create underwater dive 'park'

Jul 28, 2018 (AFP)

Three kilometres off the coast of the city of Sidon, a huge crane on the back of a ship manoeuvred the military hardware into place over the water before droppi...

Thick mud hampers Laos dam rescue with hundreds still unaccounted for

Jul 28, 2018 (AFP)

The exact number of dead and missing from Monday's dam collapse remains a mystery because of the complexity of the rescue operation in an inaccessible area and ...

Ocean acidification is disrupting marine ecosystems, study shows

Jul 27, 2018 (UPI)

By studying the impacts of volcanic CO2 seeps off the coast of Japan, scientists have gained a better understanding of how increasing CO2 concentrations are lik...

Untouched ocean habitats rapidly shrinking: study

Jul 27, 2018 (AFP)

International researchers analysing the impact of human activity, from fertiliser runoff to increased sea transport, on underwater ecosystems have mapped the dw...

France cleared to test tidal energy

Jul 27, 2018 (UPI)

A plant operated by British energy company EDF aims to test the potential for tidal energy. The demonstration plant in the English Channel could generate as muc...

'Coral ticks' suck the life out of degraded coral

Jul 27, 2018 (UPI)

Scientists have dubbed the tiny snails "coral ticks" because they suck the fluid from young Porites cylindrica coral. When researchers surveyed the impacts of c...

Floods from Laos dam collapse force evacuations in Cambodia

Jul 26, 2018 (AFP)

Twenty-seven people have been confirmed dead, with 131 still missing, after the Xe-Namnoy dam collapsed on Monday in a remote southern corner of Laos, leaving v...

Palau seeks help to counter China 'tourist ban'

Jul 26, 2018 (AFP)

President Tommy Remengesau said Palau had not received official confirmation of a ban but there had been a fall in visitors from China, one of his country's lar...

'Battery of Asia': Laos's controversial hydro ambitions

Jul 25, 2018 (AFP)

But the communist country's ambitious power plans are highly controversial. Most energy is exported to neighbouring countries Vietnam, Cambodia and China, with ...

26 bodies found after Laos dam collapse, hundreds still missing

Jul 25, 2018 (AFP)

Two South Korean contractors said they reported damage at least a day before parts of the Xe-Namnoy dam gave way Monday and unleashed a wall of water. A Thai co...

Increases in westerly winds weaken the Southern Ocean carbon sink

Jul 24, 2018 (SPX)

The results are significant as the Southern Ocean currently absorbs over 40% of human-produced carbon dioxide, so any weakening of this 'carbon sink' could acce...

Urbanisation of Spain's coast doubled in 30 years: Greenpeace

Jul 24, 2018 (AFP)

A property boom in the 1990s led to an explosion in holiday homes, hotels and resorts, especially along Spain's sunny eastern and southern coast, until the mark...

Brazil environmental claims hit Norsk Hydro earnings

Jul 24, 2018 (AFP)

The group posted a 42 percent jump in net profit to 2.1 billion kroner (210.6 million euros, around $246 million) in the second quarter. However, the underlying...

Slowdown of North Atlantic circulation rocked the climate of ancient northern Europe

Jul 24, 2018 (SPX)

These cold intervals saw a fall in temperature of a few degrees, and replacement of forests by tundra, at the study site in northern Finland. The Eemian, which ...

Wave energy converters are not geared towards the increase in energy over the last century

Jul 23, 2018 (SPX)

"However, the timescale taken into consideration tends to be quite short and, what is more, the year is regarded as typical in this period. So the converters ar...

Cloud brightening, 'sun shields' to save Barrier Reef

Jul 20, 2018 (AFP)

The UNESCO World Heritage-listed reef, about the size of Japan or Italy, is reeling from two straight years of bleaching as sea temperatures rise because of cli...

Here to stay, sea pickles are adapting comfortably to Pacific Northwest waters

Jul 20, 2018 (UPI)

The pickles are bioluminescent -- pyrosome translates as "fire body." Each tube-like creature is actually many creatures, a colony of multi-celled organisms cal...

In the ocean's twilight zone, tiny organisms may have giant effect on Earth's carbon cycle

Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)

In the area 100 to 1,000 meters below the ocean's surface - dubbed the twilight zone because of its largely impenetrable darkness - scientists found that tiny o...

Great Barrier Reef not bouncing back as before, but there is hope

Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)

Scientists at The University of Queensland, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reefs Studies (Coral CoE) and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) h...

Global Study of World's Beaches Shows Threat to Protected Areas

Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)

Erosion in protected marine areas could threaten plant and animal species and cultural heritage sites. Worldwide, the study found that 24 percent of Earth's san...