WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Earth has a secret reservoir of water, say scientists

Mar 12, 2014 (AFP)

A hundred and fifty years ago, in "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", French science-fiction forerunner Jules Verne pictured a vast sea that lay deep under ou...

Technique to create holes in graphene could improve water filters, desalination

Mar 10, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers have devised a way of making tiny holes of controllable size in sheets of graphene, a development that could lead to ultrathin filters for improved ...

Researchers gain new insights into ancient Pacific settlers' diet

Mar 10, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers from New Zealand's University of Otago studying 3000-year-old skeletons from the oldest known cemetery in the Pacific Islands are casting new light ...

Urgent need to study the impacts of biomass burning and haze on marine ecosystems

Mar 10, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers are highlighting the urgent need to understand impacts of biomass burning and haze on Southeast Asian marine ecosystems in a paper published in the ...

Cameraman recounts death of 'Crocodile Hunter' Irwin

Mar 10, 2014 (AFP)

The cameraman who witnessed the death of Australian "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin on Monday revealed a stingray stabbed at him "hundreds of times" and his fina...

Study provides new information about the sea turtle 'lost years'

Mar 10, 2014 (SPX)

A new study satellite tracked 17 young loggerhead turtles in the Atlantic Ocean to better understand sea turtle nursery grounds and early habitat use during the...

New targets needed to protect Lake Erie from massive 'dead zone'

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

Reducing the size of the Lake Erie "dead zone" to acceptable levels will require cutting nutrient pollution nearly in half in coming decades, at a time when cli...

Marine algae can sense the rainbow

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown for the first time that several types of aquatic algae can detect orange, gre...

New Technique Allows Frequent Water Quality Monitoring For Suite of Pollutants

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that uses existing technology to allow researchers and natural resource managers...

3D scans map widespread fish disease

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

Seventy-five per cent of antibiotics in Danish fish farms is used to treat fish with enteric redmouth disease. With the help of 3D scans, researchers at the Uni...

Time running out for Great Barrier Reef: scientists

Mar 06, 2014 (AFP)

Time is running out for Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef, with climate change set to wreck irreversible damage by 2030 unless immediate action is taken, ma...

Sea turtles 'lost years' mystery starts to unravel

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

Small satellite-tracking devices attached to sea turtles swimming off Florida's coast have delivered first-of-its-kind data that could help unlock they mystery ...

EU, Iceland and Nordic mackerel quota talks break down

Mar 06, 2014 (AFP)

Negotiations over mackerel fishing quotas have fallen apart, Iceland said Thursday, extending a dispute dubbed "the mackerel war" that has been a thorny issue i...

We want to save water, but do we know how?

Mar 05, 2014 (SPX)

Many Americans are confused about the best ways to conserve water and have a slippery grasp on how much water different activities use, according to a national ...

It's all water over the dam - but how and when it falls has huge impact on salmon

Mar 05, 2014 (SPX)

By adjusting water discharges in ways designed to boost salmon productivity, officials at a dam in central Washington were able to more than triple the numbers ...

The surface of the sea is a sink for nitrogen oxides at night

Mar 05, 2014 (SPX)

The surface of the sea takes up nitrogen oxides that build up in polluted air at night, new measurements on the coast of southern California have shown. The oce...

A shark's eye view: Witnessing the life of a top predator

Mar 05, 2014 (SPX)

Instruments strapped onto and ingested by sharks are revealing novel insights into how one of the most feared and least understood ocean predators swims, eats a...

Global warming felt to deepest reaches of ocean

Mar 05, 2014 (SPX)

In the mid-1970s, the first available satellite images of Antarctica during the polar winter revealed a huge ice-free region within the ice pack of the Weddell ...

Vitamin water: Measuring essential nutrients in the ocean

Mar 05, 2014 (SPX)

The phrase, 'Eat your vitamins,' applies to marine animals just like humans. Many vitamins, including B-12, are elusive in the ocean environment. University of ...

Marshall Islands says climate change behind floods

Mar 05, 2014 (AFP)

Officials in the Marshall Islands blamed climate change Wednesday for severe flooding in the Pacific nation's capital Majuro which has left 1,000 people homeles...