WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Aug 27, 2012 (AFP)

Tropical Storm Isaac, which swept across Cuba at the weekend before heading toward the southern United States, substantially boosted the communist nation's wate...

Sea life 'facing major shock'

Aug 24, 2012 (SPX)

Life in the world's oceans faces far greater change and risk of large-scale extinctions than at any previous time in human history, a team of the world's leadin...

U OF A expert pinpoints nutrient behind fresh water algae blooms

Aug 24, 2012 (SPX)

University of Alberta ecologist David Schindler has reviewed data from studies of controlling human-caused algae blooms in lakes and says controlling the input ...

Marine species at risk unless drastic protection policies put in place

Aug 24, 2012 (SPX)

Many marine species will be harmed or won't survive if the levels of carbon dioxide continue to increase. Current protection policies and management practices a...

Women could play key role in correcting crisis in clean drinking water and sanitation crisis

Aug 23, 2012 (SPX)

People in ancient Rome 2,000 years ago had better access to clean water and sanitation that keeps disease-causing human excrement out of contact with people tha...

Nature study highlights many paths to ocean health

Aug 23, 2012 (SPX)

Using a new comprehensive index designed to assess the benefits to people of healthy oceans, scientists have evaluated the ecological, social, economic, and pol...

Researchers reveal behaviors of the tiniest water droplets

Aug 22, 2012 (SPX)

A new study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and Emory University has uncovered fundamental details about the hexamer structures that ...

Improving water quality can help save coral reefs

Aug 22, 2012 (SPX)

Research from the University of Southampton and the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton has found that an imbalance of nutrients in reef waters can increa...

Dinosaur bends caused by prolonged diving

Aug 22, 2012 (SPX)

Dinosaurs-like creatures may have injured themselves during leisurely deep-sea diving trips and not from resurfacing too quickly, as previously thought. A recen...

Warming causes more extreme shifts of the Southern Hemisphere's largest rain band

Aug 20, 2012 (SPX)

South Pacific countries will experience more extreme floods and droughts, in response to increasing greenhouse gas emissions, according to a paper in the journa...

Removing Phosphorous From Wastewater

Aug 20, 2012 (SPX)

A professor at Michigan State University is part of a team developing a new method of removing phosphorous from our wastewater - a problem seriously affecting l...

Ohioans Love Their Lakes, But Are Concerned For Their Future

Aug 20, 2012 (SPX)

Almost 41 percent of Ohioans have visited a lake, pond, river or creek in the state in the past year, and of those, nearly one-half usually spend their water-re...

Rating of ocean health shows 'room for improvement'

Aug 20, 2012 (SPX)

An international group of more than 30 researchers have given a score to every coastal nation on their contribution to the health of the world's oceans, which s...

Invasive brittle star species hits Atlantic Ocean

Aug 20, 2012 (SPX)

Coral Reefs, the Journal of the International Society for Reef Studies, has published online a study co-written by Dr. Gordon Hendler of the Natural History Mus...

Belo Monte dam caught up in litigation

Aug 17, 2012 (UPI)

Brazil's controversial Belo Monte dam project is caught up in litigation after a federal court ordered suspension of the work on its construction. Campaigners s...

Australia's fish react to climate change

Aug 17, 2012 (UPI)

Australia's fish populations are moving southward because the waters around Australia are becoming warmer, a new report says. The "2012 Marine Climate Change in...

Are Methane Hydrates Dissolving?

Aug 16, 2012 (SPX)

West of Spitsbergen methane gas is effervescing out of the seabed. Is this an indication that methane hydrates in the seabed are dissolving due to rising temper...

Warmwater shark runs aground on English channel coastline

Aug 16, 2012 (AFP)

Specialists were surprised Thursday after a Sandtiger Shark ran aground on the French coastline of the English Channel, even though it is normally found in deep...

How much nitrogen is fixed in the ocean?

Aug 15, 2012 (SPX)

In order to predict how the Earth's climate develops scientists have to know which gases and trace elements are naturally bound and released by the ocean and in...

Oceans suffering from sea sickness, says study

Aug 15, 2012 (AFP)

Seychelles and Germany have the healthiest seas of any inhabited territory, while Sierra Leone has the unhealthiest, according to a new index that says many oce...