WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

NASA Starts Campaign To Probe Ocean Ecology, Carbon Cycle

Jul 23, 2014 (SPX)

NASA embarks this week on a coordinated ship and aircraft observation campaign off the Atlantic coast of the United States, an effort to advance space-based cap...

Water, water - not everywhere: Mapping water trends for African maize

Jul 23, 2014 (SPX)

Today's food production relies heavily on irrigation, but across sub-Saharan Africa only 4 percent of cultivated land is irrigated, compared with a global avera...

New water balance calculation for the Dead Sea

Jul 23, 2014 (SPX)

The drinking water resources on the eastern, Jordanian side of the Dead Sea could decline severe as a result of climate change than those on the western, Israel...

Street fishing thrives in waterways of Paris

Jul 22, 2014 (AFP)

Quentin Nespoulous is standing by Canal Saint Martin, a once run-down waterway in Paris that has been cleaned up and turned into a popular haunt for young bohem...

Mixing it up: Study provides new insight into Southern Ocean behaviour

Jul 21, 2014 (SPX)

A new study has found that turbulent mixing in the deep waters of the Southern Ocean, which has a profound effect on global ocean circulation and climate, varie...

Water problems lead to riots, deaths in South Africa

Jul 19, 2014 (AFP)

Three babies who died from drinking tap water contaminated by sewage have become a tragic symbol of South Africa's struggle to cope with a flood of people into ...

Whale shark fringe migration

Jul 18, 2014 (SPX)

At the fringe of the whale shark range, the volcanic Azore islands may play an increasing role for the north Atlantic population as sea surface temperatures ris...

Can Modi clean the Ganges, India's biggest sewage line?

Jul 17, 2014 (AFP)

Standing on the banks of the river Ganges a day after his election triumph, Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to succeed where numerous governments have failed...

Tailored water the latest in lawn care

Jul 16, 2014 (SPX)

In Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and other major cities in New Mexico, nearly every public golf course is now watered with treated municipal wastewater rather than pre...

Rainwater discovered at new depths

Jul 16, 2014 (SPX)

University of Southampton researchers have found that rainwater can penetrate below the Earth's fractured upper crust, which could have major implications for o...

EN... SO?

Jul 15, 2014 (SPX)

Forecasters at the Climate Prediction Center haven't declared El Nino conditions, even though the Nino3.4 index is currently around 0.5 C above normal, and has ...

Collaboration key to sustainable fish and shellfish farming

Jul 15, 2014 (SPX)

Getting more people to eat seafood because it's a healthier option will need careful planning to ensure that the expansion of the aquaculture sector does not po...

Damage assessment of runaway barges at Marseilles lock and dam

Jul 14, 2014 (SPX)

It takes a synchronized lock and dam system-operating like a motorized flight of stairs on the Illinois River, using gravity to move the water-to maintain a min...

Mediterranean fish stocks show steady decline

Jul 14, 2014 (SPX)

While careful management has helped stabilize or even improve the state of fisheries resources in some parts of Europe, the situation in the Mediterranean has d...

Water everywhere for DR Congo city yet scarcely a drop to drink

Jul 13, 2014 (AFP)

Goma, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, sits by one of the world's largest freshwater reservoirs and has some of Africa's heaviest annual rainfall...

Beautiful but a threat: Tropical fish invasion destroys kelp forests

Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)

The migration of tropical fish as a result of ocean warming poses a serious threat to the temperate areas they invade, because they overgraze on kelp forests an...

Dam collapse endangers Bolivia river

Jul 11, 2014 (AFP)

A dam in a southwestern Bolivian mining town that helped keep dangerous pollutants out of a major regional waterway has burst, sparking an environmental emergen...

Short circuit in the food web

Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)

They are amongst the most numerous inhabitants of the sea: tiny haptophytes of the type Emiliania huxleyi. Not visible to the naked eye, when they are in bloom ...

Study reveals strong links between Antarctic climate, food web

Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)

A long-term study of the links between climate and marine life along the rapidly warming West Antarctic Peninsula reveals how changes in physical factors such a...

English Channel fisherman scraping the bottom of the barrel

Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)

Decades of overfishing in the English Channel has resulted in the removal of many top predators from the sea and left fishermen 'scraping the barrel' for increa...