WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Study shows many lakes getting murkier, but gives hope for improvement

Dec 02, 2016 (SPX)

A study of more than 5,000 Wisconsin lakes shows that nearly a quarter of them have become murkier in the past two decades. It also shows this trend could get w...

Corals much older than previously thought, study finds

Dec 02, 2016 (SPX)

Coral genotypes can survive for thousands of years, possibly making them the longest-lived animals in the world, according to researchers at Penn State, the Nat...

600,000 risk losing water in war-scarred Ukraine

Dec 02, 2016 (AFP)

International monitors warned on Friday that around 600,000 impoverished people could be left without water or heat in war-scarred eastern Ukraine this winter. ...

Where the rains come from

Dec 02, 2016 (SPX)

Intense storms have become more frequent and longer-lasting in the Great Plains and Midwest in the last 35 years. What has fueled these storms? The temperature ...

NASA scientists working to develop 'intelligent' underwater drones

Dec 01, 2016 (UPI)

Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are working to improve submersible technologies by bolstering the artificial intelligence that helps underwater...

Glowing crystals can detect, cleanse contaminated drinking water

Nov 30, 2016 (SPX)

Tiny, glowing crystals designed to detect and capture heavy-metal toxins such as lead and mercury could prove to be a powerful new tool in locating and cleaning...

Coral survey reveals 5,000-year-old genotypes

Nov 30, 2016 (UPI)

New research suggests coral colonies can persist for thousands of years, much longer than previously thought. Scientists discovered 5,000 year-old genotypes of ...

500,000 Iraqis face 'catastrophic' Mosul water shortages: UN

Nov 30, 2016 (AFP)

Up to 500,000 civilians in Mosul face a "catastrophic" drinking water shortage as Iraqi forces advance on the Islamic State group in the city, the United Nation...

As oceans empty, Kenya fishermen must adapt or disappear

Nov 30, 2016 (AFP)

Ahmed Ali Mohamed snorkels over sea grass and coral, keeping an eye out for different fish species darting through the waters below him. But his job is not to c...

Crisis looms as half of Iraq's Mosul goes without water

Nov 29, 2016 (AFP)

Hundreds of thousands of people were without water in eastern Mosul Tuesday, residents and officials said, raising fears of a major health crisis in the war-tor...

Life and death following Great Barrier Reef bleaching

Nov 29, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists have confirmed the largest die-off of corals ever recorded on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The worst affected area, a 700 km swath of reefs in the...

Lake ecologists see winter as a key scientific frontier

Nov 29, 2016 (SPX)

As long as ecologists have studied temperate lakes, the winter has been their off-season. It's difficult, even dangerous, to look under the ice, and they figure...

Record coral kill-off on Great Barrier Reef

Nov 29, 2016 (AFP)

A mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef this year killed more corals than ever before, scientists said Tuesday, sounding the alarm over the delicate ec...

Marine incentives programs may replace 'doom and gloom' with hope

Nov 29, 2016 (SPX)

Incentives that are designed to enable smarter use of the ocean while also protecting marine ecosystems can and do work, and offer significant hope to help addr...

Toxic 'marine snow' can sink quickly, persist at ocean depths

Nov 29, 2016 (SPX)

In a new study, researchers from North Carolina State University found that a specific neurotoxin can persist and accumulate in "marine snow" formed by the alga...

Jordan picks firms for ambitious canal project

Nov 28, 2016 (AFP)

Jordan said Monday it had chosen five international consortiums to build the first phase of a multi-million-dollar canal linking the Red Sea to the shrinking De...

Arid Saudi could need '$50 billion' in water investment

Nov 27, 2016 (AFP)

Arid Saudi Arabia could need more than $53 billion in water sector investment supported by private funds as demand grows, officials said on Sunday. The world's ...

Researchers capture first glimpse of important, abundant ocean microbe

Nov 25, 2016 (SPX)

A rare microbe that was once thought to be insignificant has turned out to be one of the most abundant single-celled hunters in the ocean, and a team of researc...

Oceans act as 'heat sink'

Nov 25, 2016 (SPX)

A new multi-institutional study of the so-called global warming "hiatus" phenomenon - the possible temporary slowdown of the global mean surface temperature (GM...

Weather the storm: Improving Great Lakes modeling

Nov 22, 2016 (SPX)

Up until now, atmospheric models and hydrodynamic models have remained separate to a large extent in the Great Lakes region, with only a few attempts to loosely...