WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Vietnam farmers struggle for fresh water as drought brings salinisation

Mar 20, 2024 (AFP)

A blazing month-long heatwave has brought drought, parching the land in Thuong's home of Ben Tre province, 130 kilometres (80 miles) south of business hub Ho Ch...

Asian aerosols linked to slowing Atlantic Ocean currents

Mar 19, 2024 (SPX)

Recent findings, published in Nature Communications, shed light on how aerosols from Asia influence the AMOC. The study, "Increased Asian Aerosols Drive a Slowd...

China's FM Wang begins diplomatic blitz in New Zealand

Mar 18, 2024 (AFP)

The trip marks the start of a diplomatic blitz through New Zealand and Australia, Wang's first visit to either country since 2017. The whistlestop tour is expec...

With bites rare, experts want sharks to shed scary reputation

Mar 15, 2024 (AFP)

They're right, but, at the same time, shark bites are exceedingly rare overall -- a fact scientists wish more people knew, especially amid declining shark popul...

Nine drown in Gabon after exceptionally high tides

Mar 14, 2024 (AFP)

Rescuers found the victims' bodies on beaches by the capital Libreville, the interior ministry said. The drownings were caused by an "increase in the tides link...

Niger River's ancient 'water men' under threat as silt piles up

Mar 14, 2024 (AFP)

At nightfall, the Nigerien fisherman will try his luck again until dawn in the hope of catching a "gari" or a plump "salambale", two local delicacies. Time is o...

Colombia's Caribbean jewel slowly sinking as sea waters rise

Mar 13, 2024 (AFP)

With low-lying communities worldwide on the front lines of the climate crisis fight, Cartagena is conspicuously vulnerable. On Tierra Bomba, a small island in t...

Water cuts add to frustrations ahead of S.Africa vote

Mar 13, 2024 (AFP)

With power cuts and potholes already part of daily life, recent water shortages have increased the frustration of many over poor service delivery -- a key elect...

'It was an oasis': Mexico City frets about water

Mar 12, 2024 (AFP)

"It was an oasis here, something beautiful, and now it's dry," the 55-year-old said by the sunbaked shore of Lake Zumpango to the north of Mexico City. After wa...

Coral restoration efforts lead to rapid reef recovery comparable to healthy ecosystems

Mar 11, 2024 (SPX)

Conducted in Indonesia, a region historically affected by destructive practices such as blast fishing, the study highlights a pivotal turn in reef recovery effo...

Austria fishermen fume over protected fish fried on public TV

Mar 08, 2024 (AFP)

In the show broadcast last week, a chef shared his Lent-friendly recipe, featuring fish fritters and a roux-based potato salad on the side. But fishermen were l...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef in grip of 'mass bleaching event'

Mar 08, 2024 (AFP)

Often dubbed the world's largest living structure, the Great Barrier Reef is a 2,300 kilometre (1,400 mile) expanse of tropical corals that house a stunning arr...

Carbon emissions and El Nino push oceans to record temperatures

Mar 08, 2024 (AFP)

Oceans cover 70 percent of the planet and have kept the Earth's surface livable by absorbing 90 percent of the excess heat produced by carbon pollution from hum...

La Nina return could reduce extreme heat risks for 2024: scientists

Mar 07, 2024 (AFP)

Although the past nine consecutive months have clocked temperatures previously unseen by humanity, it fell in line with climatologists' predictions of human-cau...

Sinking US cities more exposed to rising seas: study

Mar 06, 2024 (AFP)

Global warming is melting ice sheets and glaciers and raising ocean water levels across the world, with predictions that the United States will see some of the ...

Above-normal temperatures for March-May due to El Nino: UN

Mar 05, 2024 (AFP)

Though El Nino is now gradually weakening, its impact will continue over the coming months by fuelling the heat trapped in the atmosphere by greenhouse gases, t...

Study reveals human activity significantly disrupts Earth's freshwater cycle

Mar 05, 2024 (SPX)

The study's findings indicate that the planetary boundary for freshwater change, a threshold delineating the safe operating space for humanity, was breached as ...

Taiwan deputy FM heads to Tuvalu to firm up ties

Mar 05, 2024 (AFP)

Tien Chung-kwang left for the visit on Monday as a special envoy for President Tsai Ing-wen to congratulate and show support for Tuvalu's new government, said f...

Artificial glaciers stave off drought in Kyrgyzstan

Mar 03, 2024 (AFP)

Standing on the ice hillock, farmer Erkinbek Kaldanov said he was optimistic about harnessing nature to counteract climate change. "We won't have any more probl...

One-fifth of Mekong River fish species face extinction: report

Mar 03, 2024 (AFP)

The Mekong -- among the world's most biodiverse rivers, surpassed only by the Amazon and the Congo -- is home to some 1,148 recognised species of fish, with mil...