WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

NASA Tests Observing Capability on Hawaii's Coral Reefs

Mar 30, 2017 (JPL)

NASA pulled off a scientific double play in Hawaii this winter, using the same instruments and aircraft to study both volcanoes and coral reefs. Besides helping...

'Underwater wasteland' worries after cyclone hits Barrier Reef

Mar 30, 2017 (AFP)

A powerful cyclone that smashed into northeastern Australia could have caused further damage to the under-pressure Great Barrier Reef, turning parts into an "un...

Wastewater cleaned thanks to a new adsorbent material made from fruit peels

Mar 30, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR), and from the Center for Electrochemical Research and Technological Development (Centro de Investigacion y Desa...

Internationally traded crops are shrinking globe's underground aquifers

Mar 28, 2017 (UPI)

Some of the most popular crops on the planet rely on agricultural irrigation, a practice shrinking water resources across the globe. According to new analysis b...

Flint water settlement orders lead pipes replaced

Mar 28, 2017 (AFP)

A federal judge on Tuesday approved a $97 million settlement in a lawsuit over drinking water contamination in the US city of Flint, Michigan, requiring that al...

Chance find has big implications for water treatment's costs

Mar 27, 2017 (SPX)

A type of bacteria accidentally discovered during research supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) could fundamentally re-sh...

Corals die as global warming collides with local weather in the South China Sea

Mar 27, 2017 (SPX)

In the South China Sea, a 2C rise in the sea surface temperature in June 2015 was amplified to produce a 6C rise on Dongsha Atoll, a shallow coral reef ecosyste...

Brexit plunges EU fishing into troubled waters

Mar 26, 2017 (AFP)

EU fishing fleets are increasingly anxious about their future access to teeming British waters as Britain prepares to trigger the two-year countdown to its exit...

In war-scarred Gaza, water pollution behind health woes

Mar 23, 2017 (AFP)

More and more Gazans are falling ill from their drinking water, highlighting the humanitarian issues facing the Palestinian enclave that the UN says could becom...

The foundation of aquatic life can rapidly adapt to global warming

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

Important microscopic creatures which produce half of the oxygen in the atmosphere can rapidly adapt to global warming, new research suggests. Phytoplankton, wh...

Study of non-rainfall water in Namib Desert reveals unexpected origins

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

In a study conducted in one of the world's oldest and most biologically diverse deserts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis scientists explore th...

Water carriers in Madagascar bear brunt of global crisis

Mar 22, 2017 (AFP)

As usual, they get up before dawn and, one by one, place their cans in a neat row at the base of the water pump, ready for another long day of waiting and carry...

US military helping op to seize strategic dam near Syria's Raqa

Mar 22, 2017 (AFP)

The US military provided air and artillery support -- and transported local forces -- in an offensive for a vitally important dam near the Islamic State group's...

Wastewater key to solving global water crisis: UN

Mar 22, 2017 (AFP)

Recycling the world's wastewater, almost all of which goes untreated, would ease global water shortages while protecting the environment, the United Nations sai...

India grants sacred rivers status of 'legal persons'

Mar 21, 2017 (AFP)

Two of India's holiest but most polluted rivers have been recognised as a "legal person" in a landmark court ruling that could see the sacred waterways restored...

Study: Amazon River is at least 9 million years old

Mar 21, 2017 (UPI)

According to new research, the Amazon River is between 9 and 9.4 million years old. Estimates that the river is considerably younger are wrong, scientists say. ...

Dead zones may threaten coral reefs worldwide

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

Dead zones affect dozens of coral reefs around the world and threaten hundreds more according to a new study by Smithsonian scientists published in Proceedings ...

Microorganisms in the subsurface seabed on evolutionary standby

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers at the Center for Geomicrobiology at Aarhus University, Denmark, have sequenced the genomes of several microorganisms inhabiting the subsurface seab...

Study quantifies effect of 'legacy phosphorus' in reduced water quality

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

For decades, phosphorous has accumulated in Wisconsin soils. Though farmers have taken steps to reduce the quantity of the agricultural nutrient applied to and ...

Diving with the sharks

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

Swimming with metaphorical sharks is one thing, but actually getting into the water with the razor-toothed ocean predators? Crazy, right? Not according to the m...