WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Sea of Galilee water level lowest in century: official

Mar 07, 2017 (AFP)

The lake where Christians believe Jesus walked on water has declined to its lowest level in a hundred years, an Israeli official said Tuesday. The Sea of Galile...

Underwater mountains help ocean water rise from abyss

Mar 07, 2017 (SPX)

At high latitudes, such as near Antarctica and the Arctic Circle, the ocean's surface waters are cooled by frigid temperatures and become so dense that they sin...

Syrian farmers fear IS to flood villages near Euphrates

Mar 05, 2017 (AFP)

Syrian farmers near the Euphrates river are terrified the Islamic State group will literally open the floodgates to defend its stronghold Raqa, drowning their t...

More bang for the buck

Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)

Land-based pollutants have been linked to the degradation of several Hawaiian reefs. Take West Maui, for instance, where coral ecosystems are so impacted that r...

Calculating recharge of groundwater more precisely

Mar 01, 2017 (SPX)

A team of international researchers led by University of Freiburg hydrologist Dr. Andreas Hartmann suggests that inclusion of currently missing key hydrological...

First direct measurements of Pacific seabed sediments reveal strong methane source

Mar 01, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have discovered a major source of an important greenhouse gas in the Tropical Pacific Ocean for the firs...

Saab to provide support for Swedish navy underwater systems

Feb 28, 2017 (UPI)

Saab is to provide product support and maintenance services for the Swedish navy's underwater weapon systems for the next two years. The contract with the Swedi...

Warming temperatures could trigger starvation, extinctions in deep oceans

Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers from 20 of the world's leading oceanographic research centers today warned that the world's largest habitat - the deep ocean floor - may face starva...

New urgency in fight to restore Florida Everglades

Feb 27, 2017 (AFP)

Rising seas, polluted coastlines and the specter of more frequent droughts and storms have lent new urgency to efforts to restore the ecosystem of the Florida E...

Plan to save Great Barrier Reef set back decades: experts

Feb 24, 2017 (AFP)

Australia's plan to rescue the beleaguered Great Barrier Reef has been set back at least two decades after the fragile ecosystem suffered its worst-ever bleachi...

Basking sharks seek out winter sun

Feb 22, 2017 (SPX)

The winter habits of Britain's basking sharks have been revealed for the first time. Scientists from the University of Exeter have discovered some spend their w...

Marine ecologist offers suggestions for achieving a strong, lasting 'blue economy'

Feb 22, 2017 (SPX)

Incentive-based solutions offer significant hope for addressing the myriad environmental challenges facing the world's oceans - that's the central message a lea...

Cash-strapped Rio de Janeiro to privatize water utility

Feb 20, 2017 (AFP)

Legislators for financially strapped Rio de Janeiro state voted Monday to approve privatization of the public water utility despite a strike by workers and thre...

Deep sea mining gets a second look

Feb 20, 2017 (AFP)

The risk of running out of rare earth metals that are essential to modern technology has led to a surge in interest in mining the deep seas. But fears have also...

Small ponds have outsized impact on global warming: study

Feb 20, 2017 (AFP)

Tiny natural ponds pose an overlooked danger for speeding up global warming, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. In expe...

Deep reefs unlikely to save shallow coral reefs

Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)

Dr Pim Bongaerts, a Research Fellow at The University of Queensland's Global Change Institute (GCI) and ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and lea...

10 Italian execs found guilty over polluted water supply

Feb 17, 2017 (AFP)

Ten former executives with Italian chemicals firm Montedison were found guilty Friday on appeal of allowing industrial waste to pollute the water supply of 700,...

Some marine creatures may be more resilient to harsher ocean conditions

Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)

As the world continually emits carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the oceans are taking a hit, absorbing some of it and growing more acidic. Among other effect...

Seagrass on decline, jeopardizing human, coral health: study

Feb 16, 2017 (AFP)

Underwater meadows of seagrass offer important protection against pollution to both humans and coral reefs, but are in jeopardy worldwide due to climate change,...

Sheriff lifts evacuation order for residents near California dam

Feb 15, 2017 (AFP)

A sheriff on Tuesday lifted a mandatory evacuation order in northern California, which had impacted nearly 200,000 people in an area under threat of catastrophi...