WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Norway's Norsk Hydro apologises for spills in Brazil river

Mar 19, 2018 (AFP)

"We have discharged untreated rain and surface water into the Para River," Chief Executive Svein Richard Brandtzaeg said in a statement. "This is completely una...

Dead Sea's revival with Red Sea canal edges closer to reality

Mar 18, 2018 (AFP)

Geopolitical tensions have stalled efforts to break ground on the ambitious project for years, but the end of the latest diplomatic spat has backers hoping a fi...

India's Silicon Valley faces man-made water crisis

Mar 17, 2018 (AFP)

Gleaming new apartment blocks are still springing up all over the city known as India's Silicon Valley -- even though there is nowhere near enough mains water t...

World water problems on tap at Brazil conference

Mar 17, 2018 (AFP)

Under the slogan "sharing water," the 8th World Water Forum will bring together 15 heads of state and government, 300 mayors and dozens of experts in the Brazil...

New Zealand cools on climate refugee plan

Mar 16, 2018 (AFP)

Both the ruling Labour Party and its Green coalition partner went into last year's election with a platform of allocating refugee places for islanders displaced...

Top bottled water brands contaminated with plastic particles: report

Mar 15, 2018 (AFP)

"Widespread contamination" with plastic was found in the study, led by microplastic researcher Sherri Mason of the State University of New York at Fredonia, acc...

Self-driving robots collect water samples to create snapshots of ocean microbes

Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)

Ocean microbes produce at least fifty percent of the oxygen in our atmosphere while removing large amounts of carbon dioxide. They also form the foundation of m...

West Coast waters returning to normal but salmon catches lagging

Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)

The Southwest Fisheries Science Center and Northwest Fisheries Science Center presented their annual "California Current Ecosystem Status Report" to the Pacific...

Global fisheries to be, on average, 20 percent less productive in 2300

Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)

In a study published this week in Science, UCI climatologists outline the results of computer simulations showing a world subjected to nearly three more centuri...

Researchers issue first-annual sea-level report cards

Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)

The lead on the project, VIMS emeritus professor John Boon, says the report cards are designed to add value by providing sea-level updates that are more frequen...

Mekong River dams could disrupt lives, environment

Mar 12, 2018 (SPX)

"Development projects, such as dam construction on the Mekong River and tributaries to support a booming hydropower industry, are bringing great change to ecolo...

Advanced spatial planning models could promise new era of sustainable ocean development

Mar 07, 2018 (SPX)

Now, researchers led by Florida State University Assistant Professor of Geography Sarah Lester have introduced an advanced, holistic analytical model that could...

Chinese fishermen seek divine blessings in troubled waters

Mar 07, 2018 (AFP)

Staged in the village of Fuye on Nanri island, "The Dash of the Ocean Gods" festival is one of many visually striking traditional rituals held in Fujian provinc...

Cape Town averts dry taps in 2018: official

Mar 07, 2018 (AFP)

Mmusi Maimane, who leads the Democratic Alliance which controls both the Cape Town city council and the wider Western Cape province, said that a 60 percent redu...

Greenhouse gas emissions of hydropower in the Mekong River Basin can exceed fossil fuel sources

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

The variation between the individual hydropower projects was, however, large: nearly 20% of the hydropower reservoirs had higher emissions than other renewable ...

Thawing permafrost causing the 'browning' of northern lakes

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

The portrait presented by an international team of researchers that includes Professor Isabelle Laurion of INRS shows the influence that thawing permafrost has ...

Canada expedition to livecast exploration of Pacific depths

Mar 06, 2018 (AFP)

Underwater footage of reefs with plenty of rockfish, corals, sponges and basket stars will be taken during the expedition from March 7 to 14 in the fjords and s...

Marine animals explore the ocean in similar ways

Mar 01, 2018 (SPX)

The study published in the journal PNAS was led by researchers from The University of Western Australia and the Australian Institute of Marine Science. It was t...

New Zealand FM's 'strategic anxiety' about Pacific

Mar 01, 2018 (AFP)

Peters said New Zealand's centre-left government, which took power in October, would renew its foreign policy focus on the Pacific islands. The region has long ...

Italy, China propose solution to Lake Chad's water problem

Feb 28, 2018 (AFP)

But "Transaqua" is a very real proposal for a very real problem -- how to replenish the shrinking waters of Lake Chad. It imagines a 2,600-km (1,600-mile) canal...