WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Water-quality trading can reduce river pollution

Sep 25, 2014 (SPX)

Allowing polluters to buy, sell or trade water-quality credits could significantly reduce pollution in river basins and estuaries faster and at lower cost than ...

US announces world's largest marine sanctuary

Sep 25, 2014 (AFP)

The United States on Thursday announced the creation of the world's largest marine sanctuary in the Pacific, where commercial fishing and energy exploration are...

Big changes in the Sargasso Sea

Sep 25, 2014 (SPX)

Over one thousand miles wide and three thousand miles long, the Sargasso Sea occupies almost two thirds of the North Atlantic Ocean. Within the sea, circling oc...

Changes in coastal upwelling linked to temporary declines in marine ecosystem

Sep 25, 2014 (SPX)

In findings of relevance to both conservationists and the fishing industry, new research links short-term reductions in growth and reproduction of marine animal...

Nile River monitoring influences North-East Africa's future

Sep 23, 2014 (SPX)

Curtin University research that monitors the volume of water in the Nile River Basin will help to level the playing field for more than 200 million North-East A...

Artificial 'beaks' that collect water from fog: A drought solution?

Sep 23, 2014 (SPX)

From the most parched areas of Saudi Arabia to water-scarce areas of the western U.S., the idea of harvesting fog for water is catching on. Now, a novel approac...

To dam or not to dam? Pakistan experts ponder flood strategy

Sep 21, 2014 (AFP)

Energy-starved Pakistan relies on a multitude of dams and barrages to prevent Himalayan rivers from flooding and help meet its power needs, but their failure to...

Tuna fishermen are not happy about proposed marine sanctuary

Sep 20, 2014 (UPI)

On June 17th, President Obama announced he would expand the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument from 83,000 square miles to almost 755,000. That tra...

Nemo's epic journey to find a new home

Sep 19, 2014 (SPX)

New research has found clownfish larvae can swim up to 400 kilometres in search of a home, which makes them better able to cope with environmental change. Clown...

Saltmarsh recovery looks good, falls short

Sep 19, 2014 (SPX)

After decades of decline, grasses have returned to some once-denuded patches of Cape Cod's saltmarshes. To the eye, the marsh in those places seems healthy agai...

Study finds Great Barrier Reef is an effective wave absorber

Sep 19, 2014 (SPX)

New research has found that the Great Barrier Reef, as a whole, is a remarkably effective wave absorber, despite large gaps between the reefs. This means that l...

Coral growth rate plummets in 30-year comparison

Sep 19, 2014 (SPX)

A team of researchers working on a Carnegie expedition in Australia's Great Barrier Reef has documented that coral growth rates have plummeted 40% since the mid...

Texas sinks freighter in Gulf to build artificial reef

Sep 18, 2014 (UPI)

A team of scientists and engineers breached and then sank a retired ocean freighter yesterday, adding it to an artificial reef for sea creatures in the Gulf of ...

New research decodes virus-host interactions in ocean dead zones

Sep 17, 2014 (SPX)

A complex web of interaction between viruses, bacteria, and their environment is becoming ever more untangled by a growing international collaboration between M...

Sea Shepherd to switch campaign from whales to toothfish

Sep 17, 2014 (AFP)

Conservation group Sea Shepherd Australia said Wednesday it will switch its Southern Ocean campaign from whales to toothfish -- a rare species famed as "white g...

Rising sea levels to cost Australia billions: study

Sep 17, 2014 (AFP)

Rising sea levels could threaten infrastructure worth more than Aus$226 billion (US$205 billion) in Australia if climate change is left unchecked, a study warne...

Creation of Vuoksi River preceded significant cultural shift

Sep 17, 2014 (SPX)

The creation of the Vuoksi River and the subsequent rapid decrease in the water level of Lake Saimaa approximately 6,000 years ago revealed thousands of square ...

Dutch unveil big plan to fight rising tides

Sep 16, 2014 (AFP)

The Netherlands on Tuesday unveiled a multi-billion-euro, multi-decade plan to counter the biggest environmental threat to the low-lying European nation: surgin...

Specialized species critical for reefs

Sep 16, 2014 (SPX)

One of Australia's leading coral reef ecologists fears that reef biodiversity may not provide the level of insurance for ecosystem survival that we once thought...

Scientists live stream their dissection of colossal squid

Sep 16, 2014 (UPI)

The second wholly intact adult colossal squid ever to be caught is no longer intact. Yesterday, a team of squid experts in New Zealand unthawed the massive sea ...