WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Natural climate swings contribute more to increased monsoon rainfall than global warming

Mar 22, 2013 (SPX)

Natural swings in the climate have significantly intensified Northern Hemisphere monsoon rainfall, showing that these swings must be taken into account for clim...

Syria refugees draining Jordan water supply: aid groups

Mar 22, 2013 (AFP)

Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in Jordan are stretching the kingdom's meagre water resources "to the limit," two British aid agencies warned on Friday...

Lockheed Martin Moves Closer to Affordable Water Desalination

Mar 21, 2013 (SPX)

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a patent for Perforene material, a molecular filtration solution designed to meet the growing global demand for potable water. ...

Researchers Devise Hidden Dune Filters To Treat Coastal Stormwater Runoff

Mar 21, 2013 (SPX)

When it rains, untreated stormwater can sweep pollutants into coastal waters, potentially endangering public health. Now researchers from North Carolina State U...

Brazil protesters occupy controversial Amazon dam

Mar 21, 2013 (AFP)

More than 150 fishermen and indigenous people on Thursday began occupying one of four construction sites for Brazil's huge Belo Monte dam in the Amazon, the law...

Millions of stranded prawns blanket south Chile coast

Mar 21, 2013 (AFP)

Millions of small prawns became stranded on a beach in southern Chile this week, carpeting a three-kilometer (two-mile) strand in red, local fishermen and polic...

Great white sharks bite off far more than believed: study

Mar 21, 2013 (AFP)

Great white sharks, the world's largest predatory fish, eat three to four times more food than previously thought, an Australian study shows. US research from t...

China coastal waters increasingly polluted: govt

Mar 21, 2013 (AFP)

China's coastal waters are suffering "acute" pollution, with the size of the worst affected areas soaring by more than 50 percent last year, an official body sa...

New details of atomic structure of water under extreme conditions found

Mar 20, 2013 (SPX)

Scientist from Dortmund, Helsinki, Potsdam, and the ESRF have revealed details of the microscopic atomic structure of water under extreme conditions. The result...

Fluorescent light revealed as gauge of coral health

Mar 20, 2013 (SPX)

Coral reefs not only provide the world with rich, productive ecosystems and photogenic undersea settings, they also contribute an economic boost valued at hundr...

Globe's giant squids may be single species

Mar 19, 2013 (UPI)

A finding of exceptionally low genetic diversity suggests all giant squid worldwide are members of a single species, Danish researchers say. A study published i...

Discards ban could impact seabirds population

Mar 19, 2013 (SPX)

The European Parliament recently voted to scrap the controversial discards policy, which has seen fishermen throwing thousands of edible fish and fish waste bac...

Overfishing of small species causes jellyfish curse

Mar 19, 2013 (AFP)

Marine biologists say they have proof that excessive trawling of small fish species leads to proliferation of jellyfish, a worsening phenomenon whose causes hav...

Life found in world's deepest ocean spot

Mar 18, 2013 (UPI)

Life exists in the Marianas Trench, the deepest point in the world's oceans and once considered too hostile an environment for life to survive, scientists say. ...

New restrictions bite Hong Kong shark fin traders

Mar 17, 2013 (AFP)

A conservation victory restricting global trade in more shark species will take a fresh bite at Hong Kong's market in fins, which has already been hit hard by p...

Pacific's Palau looks at commercial fishing ban

Mar 15, 2013 (AFP)

Palau's president has proposed banning all commercial fishing in the Pacific nation's waters to create one of the world's largest marine reserves, covering an a...

Glaciers Contribute Significant Iron to North Atlantic Ocean

Mar 15, 2013 (SPX)

All living organisms rely on iron as an essential nutrient. In the ocean, iron's abundance or scarcity means all the difference as it fuels the growth of plankt...

When hungry, Gulf of Mexico algae go toxic

Mar 15, 2013 (SPX)

When Gulf of Mexico algae don't get enough nutrients, they focus their remaining energy on becoming more and more poisonous to ensure their survival, according ...

Extreme water

Mar 15, 2013 (SPX)

Earth is the only known planet that holds water in massive quantities and in all three phase states. But the earthly, omnipresent compound water has very unusua...

UI study of Midwest finds increase in heavy rainfalls over 60 years

Mar 14, 2013 (SPX)

Heavy rains have become more frequent in the upper Midwest over the past 60 years, according to a study from the University of Iowa. The trend appears to hold t...