WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Atlantic circulation is not collapsing but changes could accelerate warming

Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)

While many aspects of the movie are unrealistic, oceanographers are concerned about the long-term stability of the Atlantic Ocean circulation, and previous stud...

Using 'shade balls' in reservoirs may use up more water than they save

Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)

During droughts, communities may rely on water stored in reservoirs. However, significant amounts of water can evaporate from the surface of the reservoir. Amid...

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...

Biologists locate baby white sharks' hangout in North Atlantic

Jul 18, 2018 (UPI)

Researchers have long suspected that the New York Bight, a seafloor indentation running from New Jersey's Cape May Inlet to Montauk Point on the eastern tip of ...

Reconstruction of Grand Banks event sheds light on geohazard threats to seafloor infrastructure

Jul 18, 2018 (SPX)

The 1929 Grand Banks underwater avalanche, which was triggered by an earthquake off the coast of Newfoundland, is the first and only underwater avalanche of thi...

First fishing boat detained under new UN labour rules

Jul 17, 2018 (AFP)

The boat was detained in Cape Town, South Africa, in May after the crew complained about the working conditions to local inspectors, the International Labour Or...

Sea level rise threatens internet infrastructure, new research shows

Jul 17, 2018 (UPI)

Thousands of miles of fiber optic cable are laid beneath several major coastal cities. Large swaths of this vital communications infrastructure could be underwa...

Expanding 'dead zone' in Arabian Sea raises climate change fears

Jul 17, 2018 (AFP)

In his lab in Abu Dhabi, Zouhair Lachkar is labouring over a colourful computer model of the Gulf of Oman, showing changing temperatures, sea levels and oxygen ...

Stormwater ponds not a major source of greenhouse gas emissions

Jul 16, 2018 (SPX)

Many factories, office buildings, airports, apartment complexes and retail centers, among other sites, use the ponds to collect runoff from roads, roofs, lawns ...

Lockheed awarded $25.4M contract for undersea warfare systems

Jul 16, 2018 (UPI)

The modification is for development, integration and production of the Advanced Capability Build and Technical Insertion developments of the AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 USW...

Immunity could be key to addressing coral crisis

Jul 16, 2018 (SPX)

A new commentary, published in Nature's Communications Biology, provides hope that a shift in research focus towards coral immunity will support reef conservati...

Tainted water exhibition roves around Beijing after initial shutdown

Jul 14, 2018 (AFP)

Its cargo of more than 500 bottles of Nongfu Spring, a ubiquitous Chinese brand, filled with contaminated drinking water from the village of Xiaohaotu in China'...

Strategy for 'no-mining zones' in the deep sea

Jul 13, 2018 (SPX)

"Areas near active hydrothermal vents on mid-ocean ridges have been approved for future exploration for ore deposits, but the mining has not yet started, so we ...

Electric fish helps scientists understand how the brain filters out internal stimuli

Jul 11, 2018 (UPI)

Scientists at Columbia University have identified the neurological origins of this ability inside the tiny brains of electric fish. "At its most fundamental, th...

Study finds link between river outflow and coastal sea level

Jul 10, 2018 (SPX)

The study, published July 9 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, examined decades' worth of river level and tidal data from gauges in...

China eyes Pacific summit as N.Z. warns of power vacuum

Jul 10, 2018 (AFP)

President Xi Jinping wants to hold the meeting ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Port Moresby from November 12-18. "(I) invite you ...

New Zealand to buy new Boeing maritime patrol planes

Jul 09, 2018 (AFP)

The planes, a modified version of the Boeing 737 commercial airliner, will replace an ageing fleet of six P-3 Orions which have been in service since the 1960s,...

Baltic Sea oxygen loss is unprecedented, study shows

Jul 05, 2018 (UPI)

The Baltic Sea hosts some of the largest dead zones, vast expanses of saltwater with little or no oxygen, in the world. Animal life cannot survive inside a dead...

Gulf Stream eddies as a source of iron

Jul 04, 2018 (SPX)

Up until now, researchers have usually assumed that dust from the Sahara was the only significant source of iron to the North Atlantic Gyre. Now ETH geochemists...

Global surface area of rivers and streams is 45 percent higher than previously thought

Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)

Rivers and streams are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, so the significantly higher river and stream surface area calculation has important implicati...