WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Scientists discover key to easing aquaculture's reliance on wild-caught fish

Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)

For the first time scientists have been able to develop a completely vegetarian diet that works for marine fish raised in aquaculture, the key to making aquacul...

New Insight on Vulnerability of Public-Supply Wells to Contamination

Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)

Key factors have been identified that help determine the vulnerability of public-supply wells to contamination. A new USGS report describes these factors, provi...

Scientists uncover secrets of starfish's bizarre feeding mechanism

Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists have identified a molecule that enables starfish to carry out one of the most remarkable forms of feeding in the natural world. A starfish feeds by f...

Seafood Menus Reflect Long-term Ocean Changes

Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)

The colorful restaurant menus that thousands of tourists bring home as souvenirs from Hawaii hold more than happy memories of island vacations; they contain val...

Robots Strike Fear in the Hearts of Fish

Aug 06, 2013 (SPX)

The latest in a series of experiments testing the ability of robots to influence live animals shows that bio-inspired robots can not only elicit fear in zebrafi...

Sediment trapped behind dams makes for methane hot spots

Aug 06, 2013 (SPX)

With the "green" reputation of large hydroelectric dams already in question, scientists are reporting that millions of smaller dams on rivers around the world m...

Deep sea mining to transform Cook Islands' economy?

Aug 06, 2013 (UPI)

Deep sea mining has the potential to transform the economy of the Cook Islands, an official of the South Pacific country says. A report in the British newspaper...

Decoding material fluxes in the tropical ocean

Aug 06, 2013 (SPX)

How is vital oxygen supplied to the tropical ocean? For the first time, oceanographers at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel were able to make quan...

Veolia says profits down to a trickle, shares sparkle

Aug 05, 2013 (AFP)

French utilities group Veolia Environnement reported a six-month profits slump owing to provisions and warned that its activities in China were slowing, in a re...

Shrinking glaciers won't affect South Asia water availability: study

Aug 04, 2013 (AFP)

Glacier systems that feed two key rivers in South Asia will badly retreat this century, but demands for water are still likely to be met, a study predicted on S...

As dams loom, Mekong fishermen fear for their future

Aug 04, 2013 (AFP)

The waters of the mighty Mekong have sustained generations of families but nowadays its fishermen often find their nets empty and fear hydropower mega-dams will...

Sri Lankan protestor shot dead at tainted water demo

Aug 02, 2013 (AFP)

Sri Lankan security forces shot dead one protester and wounded dozens more when they fired on villagers at a demonstration over contaminated drinking water, pol...

Global warming endangers South American water supply

Aug 01, 2013 (SPX)

Chile and Argentina may face critical water storage issues due to rain-bearing westerly winds over South America's Patagonian Ice-Field to moving south as a res...

Climate 'catastrophe' looms in Pacific: Marshall Islands

Aug 01, 2013 (AFP)

The Marshall Islands has warned of a Pacific "climate catastrophe" that will wipe it off the map without decisive action on global warming, saying the next 12 m...

Marshall Islands seeks action on climate change

Aug 01, 2013 (UPI)

The Marshall Islands is seeking support for climate change. In September the Marshall Islands, is to be the site of the Pacific Islands Forum, under the theme "...

Suez Environnement stands by targets despite slowing sales

Jul 31, 2013 (AFP)

French water and waste management utility Suez Environnement said on Wednesday its first-half net profit more than trebled as last year's results were weighed d...

Beaches near San Francisco littered with velellas

Jul 31, 2013 (UPI)

Their scientific name is Velella velella, or V. velella. But they also go by sea raft, by-the-wind sailor, purple sail, little sail, or simply velella. And righ...

Global warming to cut snow water storage 56 percent in Oregon watershed

Jul 31, 2013 (SPX)

A new report projects that by the middle of this century there will be an average 56 percent drop in the amount of water stored in peak snowpack in the McKenzie...

Europe's urban rivers spring back to life after neglect

Jul 30, 2013 (AFP)

Beaches in Paris and Warsaw, a bucolic cycle in Madrid... capitals around Europe are slowly transforming their riverbanks from noisy, polluted thoroughfares to ...

NOAA-supported scientists find large Gulf dead zone, but smaller than predicted

Jul 30, 2013 (SPX)

NOAA-supported scientists found a large Gulf of Mexico oxygen-free or hypoxic "dead" zone, but not as large as had been predicted. Measuring 5,840 square miles,...