WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Twenty-five years of satellite data confirm rising sea levels

Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)

In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found that since 1993, ocean waters have moved up the shore by ...

Sea level rise accelerating

Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)

"This acceleration, driven mainly by accelerated melting in Greenland and Antarctica, has the potential to double the total sea level rise by 2100 as compared t...

A lightning-based approach to immediate short-duration rainfall predictions

Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)

As one of the largest cities in the world, Beijing is highly vulnerable to increasingly frequent and intense precipitation events, such as the torrential rain e...

Water: Why the taps run dry

Feb 13, 2018 (AFP)

South Africa on Tuesday declared a "national disaster" over a drought that has ravaged parts of the country and threatened to leave the city without domestic ta...

For global water crisis, climate may be the last straw

Feb 13, 2018 (AFP)

Freshwater resources were already badly stressed before heat-trapping carbon emissions from fossil fuels began to warm Earth's surface and affect rainfall. In s...

Aerial imagery gives insight into water trends

Feb 12, 2018 (SPX)

Tyler King and Bethany Neilson, researchers at Utah State University, have developed a new method to estimate river discharge using aerial imagery gathered from...

'Sinking' Pacific nation is getting bigger: study

Feb 09, 2018 (AFP)

A University of Auckland study examined changes in the geography of Tuvalu's nine atolls and 101 reef islands between 1971 and 2014, using aerial photographs an...

Galapagos fights temptation of lucrative mass tourism

Feb 08, 2018 (AFP)

Why not? Who wouldn't want to go to a white sand beach and soak up some sun alongside a lounging iguana, or surf in waters with those lumbering tortoises swimmi...

Chemists develop a simple, easy-to-use method to break down pollutants in water

Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers in photochemistry are working on the question of how light can be used to initiate chemical reactions. "The idea is that light penetrates a molecule...

Illegal South African abalone flowing into Hong Kong: report

Feb 08, 2018 (AFP)

The report by wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC, released just before Chinese New Year, estimated that 65 percent of South African abalone imported to H...

'Monster fatberg' goes on public display in London

Feb 08, 2018 (AFP)

The rock-solid mass of food fat and sanitary wipes was found in drains under a major road in Whitechapel, east London, in September, and part of it is to go on ...

WSU researchers build alien ocean to test NASA outer space submarine

Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)

Washington State University researchers are working with NASA to determine how a submarine might work on Titan, the largest of Saturn's many moons and the secon...

Vulnerable fear Cape Town's water shut-off

Feb 08, 2018 (AFP)

The youngsters who depend on the Catholic charity's care are fed according to strict instructions on a whiteboard that shows each child's name and how much wate...

Bottoms up: Morocco PM glugs water to dispel pollution fears

Feb 07, 2018 (AFP)

Saad-Eddine El Othmani staged the publicity stunt in front of flashing cameras after environmental groups said it was being tainted by waste from two nearby pri...

Lab experiment yields evidence of superionic ice

Feb 06, 2018 (UPI)

Various models and numerical simulations have long suggested that water ice assumes unusual behavior at extremely high pressures. The numbers suggest water unde...

Cape Town now faces dry taps by May 11

Feb 05, 2018 (AFP)

But Capetonians are not yet out of the woods. If drastic consumption reductions are not achieved by so-called "Day Zero", people will have to queue at 200 stand...

PALS Turns to Marine Organisms to Help Monitor Strategic Waters

Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)

Marine organisms are highly attuned to their surroundings-their survival depends on it-and a new program out of DARPA's Biological Technologies Office aims to t...

Tiny Michigan town in water fight with Nestle

Feb 04, 2018 (AFP)

Maryann Borden, a retired teacher who has lived in the western Michigan town since 1953, has photos documenting changes in the Twin Creek river since Nestle beg...

EU seeks to give millions better access to drinking water

Feb 01, 2018 (AFP)

The legislation proposed by the European Commission, the EU executive, aims to make safe drinking water a citizen right in line with social rights adopted at a ...

ACTUV Sea Hunter Prototype Transitions to Office of Naval Research for Further Development

Feb 01, 2018 (SPX)

"Our collaboration with ONR has brought closer to reality a future fleet in which both manned warships and capable large unmanned vessels complement each other ...