WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Sep 11, 2016 (AFP)

The Pacific Islands Forum expanded its boundaries to include French Polynesia and New Caledonia, a communique said Sunday at the end of its annual summit, under...

Waste-besieged Easter Island slowly learns to recycle

Sep 10, 2016 (AFP)

Every Friday, a cargo plane loaded with three tonnes of waste cardboard takes off from wind-swept Easter Island, bound for the Chilean mainland thousands of mil...

Pacific nations open summit with eye on climate fight

Sep 08, 2016 (AFP)

Pacific island leaders opened their annual regional summit Thursday with a colourful ceremony in Micronesia, as some of the world's smallest nations vowed to pu...

Chinese boats face huge fines for illegal fishing off Guinea

Sep 08, 2016 (AFP)

Two Chinese vessels face huge fines after being caught fishing illegally in Guinea's waters, including one fine of up to $3.4 million, the country's fishing min...

Russia probes river turning bright red

Sep 07, 2016 (AFP)

Russia's environment ministry on Wednesday ordered a probe into a possible industrial accident after a river in the far north of the country turned bright red. ...

Latest ocean warming review reveals extent of impacts on nature and humans

Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)

Ocean warming is affecting humans in direct ways and the impacts are already being felt, including effects on fish stocks and crop yields, more extreme weather ...

Nutrient pollution is changing sounds in the sea

Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)

Nutrient pollution emptying into seas from cities, towns and agricultural land is changing the sounds made by marine life - and potentially upsetting navigation...

Flood threat as plastic bags clog Bangkok's bowels

Sep 06, 2016 (AFP)

A line of prisoners emerges from Bangkok's sewers covered in a thick film of slime and hauling buckets of sludge -- frontline troops in the battle against a ris...

Warming oceans are 'sick,' global scientists warn

Sep 06, 2016 (AFP)

Global warming is making the oceans sicker than ever before, spreading disease among animals and humans and threatening food security across the planet, a major...

Fragile planet rows in 'one canoe,' say leaders in Hawaii

Sep 02, 2016 (AFP)

Spear-throwers in traditional dress greeted rowers aboard a double-hulled canoe at a beachside ceremony Thursday to open a major world conservation meeting in H...

Obama highlights environment on Pacific atoll

Sep 02, 2016 (AFP)

President Barack Obama went off the beaten track Thursday -- way off -- to a newly expanded marine reserve on an atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, part ...

Pacific tuna meet fails to agree on cutbacks

Sep 02, 2016 (AFP)

Pacific island states and countries failed on Friday to strike a deal to protect shrinking supplies of tuna and adopt cutbacks following a regional conference, ...

University of Akron researchers find thin layers of water can become ice-like at room temperature

Sep 01, 2016 (SPX)

New research by scientists at The University of Akron (UA) shows that a nanometer-thin layer of water between two charged surfaces exhibits ice-like tendencies ...

U.S. funding tidal energy research programs

Aug 31, 2016 (UPI)

The U.S. federal government said it was slated to release cash to help support research and development for power generated from marine currents. Ten organizati...

Vegetation matters

Aug 31, 2016 (SPX)

In California's Sierra Nevada mountains, as more precipitation falls in the form of rain rather than snow, and the snowpack melts earlier in spring, it's import...

Torrential monsoon rains bring Indian capital to halt

Aug 31, 2016 (AFP)

Heavy monsoon downpours and thunderstorms brought life in the Indian capital to a grinding halt Wednesday as hundreds of thousands of commuters -- and the US se...

Millions at risk from rising water pollution: UN

Aug 30, 2016 (AFP)

Increasingly polluted rivers in Africa, Asia and Latin America pose a disease risk to more than 300 million people and threaten fisheries and farming in many co...

Well-wrapped feces allow lobsters to eat jellyfish stingers without injury

Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)

Lobsters eat jellyfish without harm from the venomous stingers due to a series of physical adaptations. Researchers from Hiroshima University examined lobster f...

Study offers insights into rainstorm formation

Aug 29, 2016 (UPI)

For the first time, climate models are allowing scientists to understand how complex cloud systems form and generate severe storms. A team of researchers in Eur...

The sound of a healthy reef

Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)

A new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will help researchers understand the ways that marine animal larvae use sound as a cue to settl...