WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Young sea turtles don't just drift, they swim

Apr 10, 2015 (UPI)

For a long time, scientists assumed the undersized fins of newly born sea turtles were no match for the waves and currents of the ocean. Drifting, it was presum...

Dynamic dead zones alter fish catches in Lake Erie

Apr 10, 2015 (SPX)

New research shows that Lake Erie's dead zones are actually quite active, greatly affecting fish distributions, catch rates and the effectiveness of fishing gea...

Unusual cancer spreads among clams off N. America

Apr 09, 2015 (AFP)

The discovery of a contagious cancer spreading among edible clams off the northeast US and Canadian coasts has stunned scientists and raised new questions about...

We can fix the Great Barrier Reef

Apr 09, 2015 (SPX)

Leading coral reef scientists say Australia could restore the Great Barrier Reef to its former glory through better policies that focus on science, protection a...

X-raying the past: New insights into the life of extinct marine creatures

Apr 09, 2015 (SPX)

Using state-of-the-art imaging techniques, palaeontologists at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (RUB) have been examining extinct marine creatures. Quantitative anal...

Next-gen temperature sensor to measure ocean dynamics

Apr 09, 2015 (SPX)

UNL engineers and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have designed a next-generation temperature sensor set to improve the measurement of oceanic dynamics that ...

Thousands of goldfish taking over lake in Colorado

Apr 08, 2015 (UPI)

Confined to a small bowl, goldfish remain rather miniscule. But turned loose in open water and the pet fish can grow to be several inches long. That's what happ...

How many organisms do live in this aquatic habitat?

Apr 08, 2015 (SPX)

The aim of this new measurement method is to estimate the distribution of aquatic animals using droplet digital polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) in order to qu...

Sky H2O offers utility-scale atmospheric water generation

Apr 07, 2015 (SPX)

SkyH2O has announced that it has introduced for the Western USA market a pre-engineered utility-scale Atmospheric Water Generating ("AWG") system. The world-cla...

California laments 'dismal' water cuts after drought call

Apr 07, 2015 (AFP)

Californians cut their water use by a "dismal" 2.8 percent in February, officials said Tuesday, days after the state's governor demanded 25 percent reductions t...

Ocean-scale dataset allows broad view of human influence on Pacific reefs

Apr 07, 2015 (SPX)

As man-made threats to coral reefs mount and interest in conserving reef ecosystems grows, scientists have turned to studying extremely remote and uninhabited r...

Report lists Grand Canyon's Colorado River as most imperiled

Apr 07, 2015 (UPI)

According to conservation outfit American Rivers, the section of the Colorado River flowing through the Grand Canyon is most endangered freshwater way in the Un...

Turkmenistan pledges to curb water use

Apr 05, 2015 (AFP)

The leader of Turkmenistan on Sunday pledged to streamline water use, a huge problem in the isolated desert nation believed to be among the world's top water wa...

NOAA study provides detailed projections of coral bleaching

Apr 02, 2015 (SPX)

While research shows that nearly all coral reef locations in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico will experience bleaching by mid-century, a new study showing in d...

Bacteria plays key role in long term storage of carbon in the ocean

Apr 02, 2015 (SPX)

The ocean is a large reservoir of dissolved organic molecules, and many of these molecules are stable against microbial utilization for hundreds to thousands of...

Daily dam releases on Deerfield River reduce downstream flows

Apr 01, 2015 (SPX)

In the first-of-its-kind study of the environmental effects of hydropeaking, that is releasing water at hydropower dams to meet peak daily electricity demand, t...

Spring plankton bloom hitches ride to sea's depths on ocean eddies

Mar 31, 2015 (SPX)

Just as crocus and daffodil blossoms signal the start of a warmer season on land, a similar "greening" event - a massive bloom of microscopic plants, or phytopl...

Massive study explores ocean response to abrupt climate change

Mar 31, 2015 (SPX)

A 30-foot-long core sample of Pacific Ocean seafloor is changing what we know about ocean resiliency in the face of rapidly changing climate. A new study report...

Mist-collecting plants may help alleviate global water shortages

Mar 31, 2015 (SPX)

Plants living in arid, mountainous and humid regions of the planet often rely on their leaves to obtain the moisture they need for survival by pulling mist out ...

What took decades to destroy in oceans took millennia to recover

Mar 31, 2015 (SPX)

Ocean ecosystems that experience rapid upheaval because of climate change can take thousands of years to recover, according to an examination of fossilized ocea...