WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Engineering a better future for the Mississippi Delta

May 01, 2015 (SPX)

River deltas, low-lying landforms that host critical and diverse ecosystems as well as high concentrations of human population, face an uncertain future. Even a...

NOAA scientists breed Arctic cod in the lab

May 01, 2015 (UPI)

Scientists with NOAA Fisheries were recently able to breed and raise Artic cod in their laboratories. It's a breakthrough researchers say will help them better ...

Bigger bang for your buck: Restoring fish habitat by removing barriers

May 01, 2015 (SPX)

A few years ago, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Limnology created the first map of all the road crossings and dams blocking the t...

Ocean bacteria get 'pumped up'

Apr 30, 2015 (SPX)

The ocean has been sucking up heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) building up in our atmosphere--with a little help from tiny plankton. Like plants on land, thes...

Study: Runway runoff degrades water quality

Apr 29, 2015 (UPI)

Groundwater near the airport runway in Oslo, Norway, lacks oxygen, and the soil there is degraded. According to new research, these conditions are likely presen...

Fishing impacts on the Great Barrier Reef

Apr 27, 2015 (SPX)

New research shows that fishing is having a significant impact on the make-up of fish populations of the Great Barrier Reef. It's long been known that environme...

Jason-3 Will Add to Record of the Sea's Rise and Fall

Apr 27, 2015 (JPL)

You can't predict the outcome of a marathon from the runners' times in the first few miles. You've got to see the whole race. Global climate change is like that...

Clyde Space and UNC to produce game-changing ocean monitoring tech

Apr 24, 2015 (SPX)

Clyde Space is collaborating with an American university and a team of leading US-based scientists to develop a "game-changer" in vital new technology to study ...

Exploding stars help to understand thunderclouds on Earth

Apr 24, 2015 (SPX)

How is lightning initiated in thunderclouds? This is difficult to answer - how do you measure electric fields inside large, dangerously charged clouds? It was d...

Soil Moisture Mission Produces First Global Maps

Apr 24, 2015 (JPL)

With its antenna now spinning at full speed, NASA's new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory has successfully re-tested its science instruments and g...

Water rationing in Taiwan's second largest city as drought deepens

Apr 24, 2015 (AFP)

Taiwan's government said Friday it will expand water rationing to its second largest city next month to battle a worsening drought following record-low rain in ...

Oceans worth $24 trillion, but sea change needed to save them says WWF

Apr 23, 2015 (AFP)

The world's oceans are awash in riches, with output rivalling that of some of the world's largest economies, but over-fishing, pollution and climate change are ...

Calculating how the Pacific was settled

Apr 23, 2015 (SPX)

Using statistics that describe how an infectious disease spreads, a University of Utah anthropologist analyzed different theories of how people first settled is...

EU warns Thailand to halt illegal fishing or face ban

Apr 22, 2015 (AFP)

The EU on Tuesday warned Thailand, the third largest seafood producer, that it had six months to halt illegal fishing or face an import ban in the world's singl...

Ocean currents impact methane consumption

Apr 22, 2015 (SPX)

Large amounts of methane - whether as free gas or as solid gas hydrates - can be found in the sea floor along the ocean shores. When the hydrates dissolve or wh...

Vampire squid discovery shows how little we know of the deep sea

Apr 22, 2015 (SPX)

Among soft-bodied cephalopods, vampire squid live life at a slower pace. At ocean depths from 500 to 3,000 meters, they don't swim so much as float, and they ge...

Miami Beach sees rising seas as no threat to real estate boom, for now

Apr 22, 2015 (AFP)

Miami Beach's condo boom is bubbling hot, with glass towers being built as fast as they can be - even as scientists say rising seas could swamp much of the stor...

Let it snow

Apr 22, 2015 (SPX)

Five years ago today, the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Since then, scientists have continued to study the effects of the larg...

Aptly named vampire squids enjoy long lives in the dark

Apr 20, 2015 (UPI)

Unlike most soft-bodied cephalopods, which produce and release their eggs all at once (usually right before they die), deep-water vampire squids release their e...

The Game-Changing Water Revolution: Interview with Stanley Weiner

Apr 19, 2015 (SPX)

Globally, water demand is threatening to dangerously outpace supply, while in the US, dry states such as Texas and California are suffering from shortages and t...