WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

EU keeps fishing subsidies, attacked by environmentalists

Oct 24, 2012 (AFP)

The EU agreed on Wednesday to maintain controversial fishing subsidies, sparking a sharp response from environmental groups who say the payments encourage overf...

Climate change threatens marine environment in the Baltic Sea

Oct 23, 2012 (SPX)

At the end of the 21st century, the temperature in the Baltic Sea will be higher and the salt content lower than at any time since 1850. If no action is taken t...

Leisure boats threaten the Swedish West Coast archipelago

Oct 23, 2012 (SPX)

The number of leisure boats along the Swedish West Coast has risen dramatically over the last 20 years, resulting in a risk that the inner archipelago might be ...

Sweden's only coral reef at risk of dying

Oct 23, 2012 (SPX)

Sweden's only remaining cold-water coral reef, the Sacken reef in the Koster Fjord, is under threat of extinction. Because of that, researchers from the Univers...

A Mississippi River diversion helped build Louisiana wetlands

Oct 23, 2012 (SPX)

The extensive system of levees along the Mississippi River has done much to prevent devastating floods in riverside communities. But the levees have also contri...

EU states agree to cut Baltic cod quotas

Oct 22, 2012 (AFP)

Key EU states agreed Monday to cut cod fishing quotas in Baltic waters in a bid to bring stocks back up to sustainable levels, the European Commssion said. The ...

Suez Environnment, Veolia deny tie-up talks

Oct 20, 2012 (AFP)

French water and waste management groups Suez Environnement and Veolia Environnement on Saturday issued separate statements denying a press report they were wor...

Dinosaur-era acoustics: Global warming may give oceans the 'sound' of the Cretaceous

Oct 19, 2012 (SPX)

Global temperatures directly affect the acidity of the ocean, which in turn changes the acoustical properties of sea water. New research suggests that global wa...

Wave snatches Polish woman to her death in Spain

Oct 19, 2012 (AFP)

A huge wave dragged a Polish woman to her death as she walked on a Spanish beach with a friend on Friday in a storm that also left a young French man missing. A...

Brazil resumes work on major dam after protests

Oct 19, 2012 (AFP)

Work has resumed on the massive Belo Monte Dam in Brazil's Amazon after the public consortium reached a deal with indigenous groups and fishermen who had occupi...

Egypt pushes Ethiopia to scrap Nile dam

Oct 19, 2012 (UPI)

Egypt increasingly views Ethiopia's plan to build a massive 6,000-megawatt hydroelectric dam on the Nile River as a threat to its national security because it w...

Coral reefs and food security: Study shows nations at risk

Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)

A new study co-authored by the Wildlife Conservation Society identifies countries most vulnerable to declining coral reef fisheries from a food-security perspec...

LSU research team shows negative impact of nutrients on coastal ecosystems

Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)

LSU's John Fleeger, professor emeritus in LSU's Department of Biological Sciences, is part of a multi-disciplinary national research group that recently discove...

Why Are Coastal Salt Marshes Falling Apart?

Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)

Salt marshes have been disintegrating and dying over the past two decades along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard and other highly developed coastlines without anyone f...

Mathematics and the Ocean: Movement, Mixing and Climate Modeling

Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)

Studying the dynamics of the ocean system can greatly improve our understanding of key processes of ocean circulations, which have implications for future clima...

Conference seeks to curb exploitation of high seas

Oct 17, 2012 (AFP)

Long spared because of their remoteness, the high seas have become an important hunting ground for fish trawlers and oil prospectors, putting at risk many marin...

S. Korea holds 23 Chinese for illegal fishing

Oct 17, 2012 (AFP)

South Korea's coastguard said Wednesday it was holding 23 Chinese fishermen in custody for questioning after a violent clash in the Yellow Sea that left one Chi...

Scientists Uncover Diversion of Gulf Stream Path in Late 2011

Oct 15, 2012 (SPX)

At a meeting with New England commercial fishermen last December, physical oceanographers Glen Gawarkiewicz and Al Plueddemann from the Woods Hole Oceanographic...

Too much of a good thing can be bad for corals

Oct 15, 2012 (SPX)

A new study by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science shows that corals may be more severely impacted by...

Documented decrease in frequency of Hawaii's northeast trade winds

Oct 15, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists at University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) have observed a decrease in the frequency of northeast trade winds and an increase in eastern trade winds over...