WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

S.Africa and Lesotho move forward on mega water project

Mar 27, 2014 (AFP)

South Africa and Lesotho ceremonially launched Thursday the second phase of a massive water transfer project, their biggest joint infrastructure investment. Wor...

Lots of carbon dioxide equivalents from aquatic environments

Mar 25, 2014 (SPX)

Large amounts of carbon dioxide equivalents taken up by plants on land are returned to the atmosphere from aquatic environments. This according to a study carri...

Deep Ocean Current May Slow Due to Climate Change

Mar 24, 2014 (SPX)

Far beneath the surface of the ocean, deep currents act as conveyer belts, channeling heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients around the globe. A new study by the Un...

Global warming may increase methane emissions from freshwater ecosystems

Mar 24, 2014 (SPX)

New research led by the University of Exeter suggests that rising global temperatures will increase the quantity of the key greenhouse gas methane emitted from ...

High-tech materials purify water with sunlight

Mar 21, 2014 (SPX)

Sunlight plus a common titanium pigment might be the secret recipe for ridding pharmaceuticals, pesticides and other potentially harmful pollutants from drinkin...

Bangladesh's otter fishing tradition faces extinction

Mar 21, 2014 (AFP)

Swimming in circles alongside a fishing boat, the excited cries of two short-haired otters ring out across a river in southern Bangladesh that feeds into the Su...

World faces 'water-energy' crisis: UN

Mar 21, 2014 (AFP)

Surging populations and economies in the developing world will cause a double crunch in demand for water and energy in the coming decades, the UN said Friday. I...

World Bank approves $73 mn for DR Congo hydro project

Mar 20, 2014 (AFP)

The World Bank approved Thursday $73.1 million in financing to the Democratic Republic of Congo to support development of the massive Inga 3 hydropower project ...

Desalination plant to be built in Gaza

Mar 20, 2014 (AFP)

The European Union and UNICEF launched a project Thursday to build a desalination plant in the Gaza Strip to provide 75,000 Palestinians with drinking water. A ...

Geographers create 'easy button' to calculate river flows from space

Mar 19, 2014 (SPX)

The frustrated attempts of a UCLA graduate student to quantify the amount of water draining from Greenland's melting ice sheet led him to devise a new way to me...

New Statistical Models Could Lead to Better Predictions of Ocean Patterns

Mar 19, 2014 (SPX)

The world's oceans cover more than 72 percent of the earth's surface, impact a major part of the carbon cycle, and contribute to variability in global climate a...

Global food trade can alleviate water scarcity

Mar 19, 2014 (SPX)

International trade of food crops led to freshwater savings worth 2.4 billion US-Dollars in 2005 and had a major impact on local water stress. This is shown in ...

Dolphin pod dies trapped in ice off Canadian coast

Mar 17, 2014 (AFP)

Some 30 white-beaked dolphins have died after being trapped in ice off the coast of Canada's easternmost Newfoundland province, and three remaining alive are no...

N.African dust stimulates monsoons: study

Mar 16, 2014 (AFP)

Desert dust from North Africa and the Arabian peninsula stimulates monsoon rains over India, said a study Sunday suggesting that desertification from global war...

Water-rich gem points to vast 'oceans' beneath the Earth

Mar 16, 2014 (SPX)

A University of Alberta diamond scientist has found the first terrestrial sample of a water-rich gem that yields new evidence about the existence of large volum...

Bucking Conventional Wisdom, Researchers Find Black Sea Bass Tougher Than Expected

Mar 14, 2014 (SPX)

In a new study, fisheries researchers from North Carolina State University found that black sea bass (Centropristis striata) can usually survive the physical tr...

Global powers sign declaration on sustainable fishing

Mar 14, 2014 (AFP)

Officials from some of the world's top fishing powers signed a declaration in Greece on Friday to promote sustainable management of fish stocks. The signatories...

EU mackerel deal with Norway and Faroes angers Iceland

Mar 13, 2014 (AFP)

The European Union has reached an agreement over controversial mackerel quotas with Norway and the Faroe Islands, prompting an angry reaction from Iceland on Th...

Ocean food web is key in the global carbon cycle

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

Nothing dies of old age in the ocean. Everything gets eaten and all that remains of anything is waste. But that waste is pure gold to oceanographer David Siegel...

Pakistani Kashmir turns to water to solve power crisis

Mar 12, 2014 (AFP)

As Pakistan grapples with a crippling energy crisis, people in one corner of Kashmir have taken matters into their own hands, using small-scale turbines to gene...