WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Scientists Urge Protection of World's Deltas

Dec 05, 2014 (SPX)

Extensive areas of the world's deltas - which accommodate major cities such as Shanghai, Dhaka and Bangkok - will be drowned in the next century by rising sea l...

Greenhouse gases linked to past African rainfall

Dec 05, 2014 (SPX)

New research demonstrates for the first time that an increase in greenhouse gas concentrations thousands of years ago was a key factor in causing substantially ...

Chinese scientists create new global wetland suitability map

Dec 05, 2014 (SPX)

Wetlands are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth. Yet with increasing urbanization and agricultural expansion, wetlands around the globe are in danger...

Managing reefs to benefit coastal communities

Dec 05, 2014 (SPX)

Coral reefs provide a range of benefits, such as food, opportunities for income and education, but not everyone has the same access to them, according to a new ...

'Disaster' in Maldives as capital suffers water crisis

Dec 05, 2014 (AFP)

India and Sri Lanka airlifted drinking water to the Maldives Friday after a fire at a desalination plant led to severe shortages and triggered unrest on the str...

Hope for corals as baby reef-builders cope with acidifying oceans

Dec 04, 2014 (SPX)

While the threat of coral bleaching as a result of climate change poses a serious risk to the future of coral reefs world wide, new research has found that some...

Arabian Sea humpback whales isolated for 70,000 years

Dec 04, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), the Environment Society of Oman, and other organizations hav...

Techniques for estimating Atlantic bluefin tuna reproduction

Dec 03, 2014 (SPX)

Using a new approach for determining the age at sexual maturity for wild stocks of western Atlantic bluefin tuna, researchers led by Molly Lutcavage of the Univ...

Pacific states say tuna talks making slow progress

Dec 03, 2014 (AFP)

Pacific island states expressed frustration Wednesday at a lack of progress in talks aimed at protecting the region's valuable tuna resources, accusing powerful...

Check dams are causing Russia's Lake Elton to brighten

Dec 02, 2014 (UPI)

U.S. satellite imagery suggests a salt lake in Russia is being starved of its sediment, causing it to appear brighter and brighter over time. Lake Elton -- whic...

Scottish backing for marine power resilient

Dec 01, 2014 (UPI)

Supporting the fledgling marine power sector is part of the Scottish government's commitment to a low-carbon economy, a deputy minister said. Nova Innovation, w...

Tuna showdown looms at Samoa conference

Nov 29, 2014 (AFP)

Small Pacific island states and powerful foreign fishing nations are heading for a showdown next week over management of the world's largest tuna fishery. The i...

Toolkit for ocean health

Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)

The ocean is undergoing global changes at a remarkable pace and we must change with it to attain our best possible future ocean, warns the head of The Universit...

CT scans of coral skeletons reveal ocean acidity increases reef erosion

Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)

Coral reefs persist in a balance between reef construction and reef breakdown. As corals grow, they construct the complex calcium carbonate framework that provi...

Another human footprint in the ocean

Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)

Human-induced changes to Earth's carbon cycle - for example, rising atmospheric carbon dioxide and ocean acidification - have been observed for decades. However...

Diverting Chinese river from ecological disaster offers sustainable model

Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)

For tens of thousands of years, modern humans have used the waterways to spread out across the surface of the planet. Major civilizations developed along massiv...

Biology trumps chemistry in open ocean

Nov 26, 2014 (SPX)

Single-cell phytoplankton in the ocean are responsible for roughly half of global oxygen production, despite vast tracts of the open ocean that are devoid of li...

As CO2 acidifies oceans, scientists develop a way to measure impact

Nov 26, 2014 (SPX)

Following a 5,000 km long ocean survey, research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences presents a new way to measure how the acidific...

London has faith in marine energy

Nov 26, 2014 (UPI)

The British government views marine energy developments as a cornerstone of a low-carbon economy despite industry setbacks, a minister said Wednesday. "Tidal po...

Haunted Falklands vet finds Argentine marine's family

Nov 26, 2014 (AFP)

A British veteran searching for the identity of an Argentine marine he killed in the Falklands War will get a chance for closure after a newspaper found the man...