WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Bacteria in drinking water are key to keeping it clean

Aug 23, 2013 (SPX)

Research at the University of Sheffield, published in the latest issue of Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, points the way to more sophisticated and t...

ISS-Inspired mWater App Identifies Healthy Water Sources

Aug 23, 2013 (SPX)

What if that clear, sparkling stream coming from the ground or a faucet were teeming with contaminants? How would you know? Whether you live in some remote regi...

Epic ocean voyages of baby corals revealed

Aug 23, 2013 (SPX)

The study, by researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Miami, will help predict how coral reef distributions may change in response to changing oceans. ...

Dams destabilize river food webs: Lessons from the Grand Canyon

Aug 22, 2013 (SPX)

Managing fish in human-altered rivers is a challenge because their food webs are sensitive to environmental disturbance. So reports a new study in the journal E...

Newly discovered ocean plume could be major source of iron

Aug 21, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists have discovered a vast plume of iron and other micronutrients more than 1,000 km long billowing from hydrothermal vents in the South Atlantic Ocean. ...

Argentine dam deal awarded to Chinese, domestic firms

Aug 21, 2013 (AFP)

The construction of two hydroelectric dams in Argentina's Patagonia region has been awarded to a consortium of domestic and Chinese companies, President Cristin...

Epic ocean voyages of coral larvae revealed

Aug 21, 2013 (SPX)

A new computer simulation conducted at the University of Bristol (UB) and University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science has revea...

EU slaps ban on Faroe Islands herring, mackerel imports

Aug 21, 2013 (UPI)

Fishermen from the Faroe Islands were banned from exporting herring and mackerel into the European Union under trade measures imposed this week by Brussels. The...

EU slaps trade sanctions against Faroes in herring spat

Aug 20, 2013 (AFP)

The European Commission adopted a package of trade sanctions against the Faroe Islands on Tuesday in a row over herring fisheries it says are being massively ov...

Study sees increased risk of flooding in world's coastal cities

Aug 19, 2013 (UPI)

Climate change, population and economic growth may increase flood losses in major coastal cities to nine times current levels by 2050, U.K. researchers say. Est...

Hydropower poses a threat to Shanghai water

Aug 19, 2013 (UPI)

Extensive hydropower development in the upper reaches of China's Yangtze River poses a threat to the future safety of Shanghai's water supply, says a new study....

Jordan to launch 'first phase' of Dead Sea canal

Aug 19, 2013 (AFP)

Jordan said on Monday it plans to build parts of a project linking the Red Sea to the shrinking Dead Sea that would supply the parched country with desalinated ...

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon sees country's future in hydropower

Aug 15, 2013 (UPI)

Resource poor, water-rich Tajikistan sees hydropower as a future asset. Tajik President Emomali Rahmon Wednesday inaugurated a $33.2 million, 220 kilowatt subst...

Baby corals pass the acid test

Aug 15, 2013 (SPX)

Corals can survive the early stages of their development even under the tough conditions that rising carbon emissions will impose on them says a new study from ...

Taking a 360-degree View of Water

Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)

Escaping from the ocean, then surfing on clouds until taking that fateful fall back to Earth, water is on a journey. NASA's new short film "Water Falls" invites...

Study finds novel worm community affecting methane release in ocean

Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists have discovered a super-charged methane seep in the ocean off New Zealand that has created its own unique food web, resulting in much more methane es...

Tahiti: A very hot biodiversity hot spot in the Pacific

Aug 13, 2013 (SPX)

A collaborative biological survey that focused on the insects of French Polynesia has resulted in the discovery of over 100 tiny predatory beetle species in Tah...

Newly discovered bacterial partnership changes ocean chemistry

Aug 09, 2013 (SPX)

In a discovery that further demonstrates just how unexpected and unusual nature can be, scientists have found two strains of bacteria whose symbiotic relationsh...

Greenpeace warns Spain about building on coast

Aug 08, 2013 (AFP)

Greenpeace accused Spain Thursday of overdeveloping its coastline and warned the problem will only get worse due to a new law which it said makes it easier for ...

Global investigation reveals true scale of ocean warming

Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)

Warming oceans are causing marine species to change breeding times and shift homes with expected substantial consequences for the broader marine landscape, acco...