WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Chile's Bachelet unveils massive marine parks in legacy move

Feb 28, 2018 (AFP)

Bachelet signed Tuesday a law creating the Rapa Nui marine park around Easter Island and the southern town of Tortel, another around the Juan Fernandez Islands ...

Better ocean turbulence models to improve climate predictions

Feb 27, 2018 (UPI)

In a new study, published this week in the journal Physical Review Letters, scientists present a new method for simulating the behavior of mesoscale eddies, oce...

The West Coast is losing its biggest Chinook salmon

Feb 27, 2018 (UPI)

"Chinook are known for being the largest Pacific salmon and they are highly valued because they are so large," Jan Ohlberger, a research scientist at the Univer...

Stagnation in the South Pacific

Feb 27, 2018 (SPX)

The researchers from the University of Oldenburg's Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), the Max Planck Institute for Marine Mic...

Combating sulphuric acid corrosion at wastewater plants

Feb 26, 2018 (SPX)

As a result, it is not uncommon for wastewater systems to have a lifespan of under ten years, before they need to be refurbished or individual components replac...

Temperatures to keep rising in Pacific Northwest, new climate models confirm

Feb 23, 2018 (UPI)

To better predict how climate change will impact the northwest corner of the United States, scientists at Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service lo...

Rising seas could swallow Pacific salt marshes, study suggests

Feb 22, 2018 (UPI)

"The bottom line is, especially in California, most of the salt marsh is going to go away by 2100," Richard Ambrose, a professor of environmental health at Univ...

Seychelles designates huge new marine reserve

Feb 22, 2018 (AFP)

The 210,000-square-kilometre (81,000-square-mile) zone -- an area equivalent to nearly half of the Black Sea -- is intended to protect both the sea and the arch...

Large vessels are fishing 55 percent of world's oceans

Feb 22, 2018 (AFP)

The report in the journal Science used satellite data to track industrial fishing, and found that 55 percent of the world's oceans -- and possibly more -- are b...

Expect seas to rise for the next 300 years, new climate models warn

Feb 22, 2018 (UPI)

For some time, climate scientists have argued that some of global warming's impacts have already been baked into the planet's systems. Even if global temperatur...

Rare find from the deep sea

Feb 21, 2018 (SPX)

Based on these video recordings and MRI scans of the internal organs, researchers from the Delaware Museum of Natural History, the University of Bonn, the Unive...

Cape Town now faces dry taps by July 9

Feb 20, 2018 (AFP)

But Capetonians are not yet out of the woods. If drastic consumption reductions are not achieved by so-called "Day Zero" -- the last day of normal water supply ...

Coming decades vital for future sea level rise: study

Feb 20, 2018 (AFP)

"The trajectory of emissions in the next few decades will shape our coastlines in the centuries to come," lead author Matthias Mengel, a scientist at the Potsda...

India's top court steps in to help thirsty tech hub

Feb 16, 2018 (AFP)

The Supreme Court said a 2007 ruling by a special tribunal on river-sharing had failed to take into account Bangalore's growing water needs, and awarded a great...

The neuroscience of cuttlefish camouflage

Feb 16, 2018 (SPX)

"I just couldn't believe that I cut the pallial nerve, and the papillae - the bumps of skin that allow cuttlefish to change the texture of their skin to become ...

Shellfish reefs: Australia's untold environmental disaster

Feb 15, 2018 (AFP)

While recent global focus has been on the destruction of coral reefs, a study led by the Nature Conservancy found that between 90 and 99 percent of shellfish re...

Tiny membrane key to safe drinking water

Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)

Using their own specially designed form of graphene, 'Graphair', CSIRO scientists have supercharged water purification, making it simpler, more effective and qu...

How seafloor weathering drives the slow carbon cycle

Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)

Prof Dietmar Muller and Dr Adriana Dutkiewicz from the Sydney Informatics Hub and the School of Geosciences report their discovery in the journal Science Advanc...

Rapid decompression key to making low-density liquid water

Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)

Its solid form is less dense than its liquid form, which is why ice floats; its peculiar heat capacity profile has a profound impact on ocean currents and clima...

Drought forces Mozambique capital to ration water

Feb 14, 2018 (AFP)

The city is cutting the water supply to consumers to just 40 percent of normal levels, Casimiro Abreu, deputy director of the National Emergency Centre said in ...