WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Jul 12, 2017 (SPX)

"Flooding, particularly near infrastructures, residences, and cropland can be extremely destructive. We see it again and again, and continue to observe the dama...

Strengthening of West African Monsoon during Green Sahara period may have affected ENSO

Jul 12, 2017 (SPX)

Changes in the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) - an important driver of large-scale climate variability - have broad impacts on society and eco-systems glob...

Scientists make 'squarest' ice crystals ever

Jul 12, 2017 (SPX)

The ability to make and study cubic ice in the laboratory could improve computer models of how clouds interact with sunlight and the atmosphere - two keys to un...

Thai seafood giant commits to major fishing reforms

Jul 11, 2017 (AFP)

The Thai food giant -- which owns major global brands such as Chicken of the Sea, John West and Petit Navire -- has long been a bete noire to those campaigning ...

Surveying sea floor animals for offshore renewable energy

Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)

That presents a problem for renewable energy companies because they need to consider environmental implications before constructing facilities in the ocean. A t...

Global ocean health relatively stable over past 5 years

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

The Ocean Health Index has been used to assess ocean health on the local and regional scale, measuring factors such as biodiversity, coastal protection, and cle...

Rivers do not have same rights as humans: India's top court

Jul 07, 2017 (AFP)

The Supreme Court stayed a March order by a lower body that recognised the Ganges and its tributary the Yamuna as "legal persons" in an attempt to protect the h...

Bacteria collaborate to propel the ocean 'engine'

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

Dr Joseph Christie-Oleza and Professor David Scanlan from the School of Life Sciences have discovered that two of the most abundant types of microorganism in th...

From dry to wet: Rainfall might abruptly increase in Africa's Sahel

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

They detect a self-amplifying mechanism which might kick-in beyond 1.5-2 degrees Celsius of global warming - which happens to be the limit for global temperatur...

Another threat to the ocean: deoxygenation

Jul 06, 2017 (UPI)

This summer's Gulf dead zone, which the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expects to be the third-largest since monitoring began in ...

UNESCO keeps Great Barrier Reef off 'in danger' list

Jul 06, 2017 (AFP)

A WHC spokeswoman said the Committee, which is meeting in Poland, had made the decision late Wednesday and expressed "deep concern" over two straight years of m...

Study: Birth control turning male fish into females

Jul 04, 2017 (UPI)

Professor Charles Tyler of the University of Exeter in Britain said male river fish are displaying more feminine traits, including reduced sperm and producing e...

Calculating 'old' and 'new' water runoff

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

Ross, a member of the Watershed Systems Research Program at the University of Manitoba, is measuring water flow in a part of the soil called the vadose zone. Al...

Bacteria-coated nanofiber electrodes clean pollutants in wastewater

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

The researchers created electro-spun carbon nanofiber electrodes and coated them with a conductive polymer, called PEDOT, to compete with carbon cloth electrode...

'Perfect storm' of oceanic conditions triggered Great Barrier Reef bleaching

Jul 03, 2017 (UPI)

Aerial surveys showed evidence of bleaching among 90 percent of the coral populating portions of the Great Barrier Reef, including coral in the Torres Strait an...

Cornell researchers build American eels an 'eelevator'

Jul 03, 2017 (UPI)

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a solution to help migrating eels bypass dams on their journey upstream. They call their solution the "eelevato...

Oceans are warming rapidly

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

For example, during the current surge of research on the so-called "hiatus" or "slowdown", different scientific studies draw quite different conclusions on the ...

Seagull carried out an autonomous end-to-end unmanned Mine Counter Measure mission

Jun 29, 2017 (SPX)

Taking part in the trials conducted at the beginning of June off the Belgian Zeebrugge Naval Base, were several companies operating different types of unmanned ...

Lebanon dam planned over seismic fault line stirs fears

Jun 29, 2017 (AFP)

"How can you build a dam in an earthquake zone? We don't even have houses that are earthquake-proof," said Amer Meshmushi, a resident of Bisri Valley, 35 kilome...

Scientists at University of California, San Diego find wave's 'sweet spot'

Jun 29, 2017 (UPI)

The sweet spot is a wave's most powerful point. When riding a wave, surfers are often searching for the sweet spot. Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oce...