WATER WORLD - AFRICA DAILY

Debt-laden UK utility giant Thames Water names new boss

Dec 14, 2023 (AFP)

Weston, who worked at Centrica for 13 years, will take over as chief executive on January 8, replacing interim co-bosses Cathryn Ross and Alastair Cochran. They...

Solomons PM hits out at Western 'agents'

Dec 13, 2023 (AFP)

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has led the impoverished Pacific island for almost five years and -- having delayed elections once -- is seeking reelection on ...

Xi says China, Vietnam must oppose attempt to 'mess up Asia-Pacific'

Dec 13, 2023 (AFP)

The trip is Xi's first to neighbouring Vietnam in six years, and the two nations committed to deeper ties and signed more than 30 agreements, including a pledge...

Thames Water says needs more time for financial turnaround

Dec 12, 2023 (AFP)

The country's biggest water supplier has previously announced a three-year plan to improve its operational and financial performance. But joint interim chief ex...

Freshwater fish swim into trouble as climate change increases threat: IUCN

Dec 11, 2023 (AFP)

The assessment published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) also updated its list to reflect climate change threats to Atlantic Salmon...

Plankton's Vital Role in Carbon Sequestration Unveiled

Dec 07, 2023 (SPX)

Plankton, those tiny, often overlooked organisms in the ocean, are revealed as key players in the natural transport of carbon from surface waters down to the se...

Australia, Papua New Guinea announce security deal

Dec 07, 2023 (AFP)

Canberra pushed for a more substantive treaty earlier this year, but Papua New Guinea baulked because leaders feared it undermined the country's "sovereign righ...

Shark net protects swimmers in French Pacific territory

Dec 06, 2023 (AFP)

The territory had banned sea bathing outright after two attacks earlier this year, one of them causing the death of an Australian tourist. But Noumea's busiest ...

Britain's Thames Water plans 'radical' turnaround

Dec 05, 2023 (AFP)

Profit after tax tumbled 57 percent to 172.3 million pounds ($218 million) in the six months to the end of September despite an emergency financial rescue, Brit...

'We felt it first': Climate-threatened islands battle fossil fuels at COP28

Dec 05, 2023 (AFP)

"Everybody feels it now with the fires and the droughts and the hurricanes," Tina Stege, the Marshall Islands climate envoy told AFP, "but we felt it first and ...

Norway to allow deep-sea mining

Dec 05, 2023 (AFP)

Already a major oil and gas producer, the Scandinavian kingdom could become one of the first countries to explore the ocean floor for minerals crucial for renew...

Volunteer divers guard Oman's 'unique' coral reefs

Dec 04, 2023 (AFP)

They are diving for a reason: to remove the massive fishing nets damaging an unusually resilient coral reef system that is seen as more likely than most to surv...

In flooded south, Ukraine builds landmark ecocide case against Russia

Dec 04, 2023 (AFP)

Watching over the proceedings was Vladislav Ignatenko, a Ukrainian prosecutor conducting a world-first war crimes investigation into allegations of Russian ecoc...

Study identifies key algae species helping soft corals survive warming oceans

Dec 04, 2023 (SPX)

During a two-year survey of soft corals in the Florida Keys, Mary Alice Coffroth, professor emerita of geology at the University at Buffalo, along with a small ...

U.S. announces plan to boost operations with AUKUS partners in Indo-Pacific region

Dec 02, 2023 (UPI)

Austin unveiled the new cooperation during remarks at a press briefing following a high-stakes sit-down with Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles and Brit...

Philippines, France to pursue key defence pact

Dec 02, 2023 (AFP)

Speaking following a meeting in Manila, Philippine Defence Secretary Gilbert Teodoro and his French counterpart Sebastien Lecornu said they agreed to seek autho...

Google's 'A Passage of Water' Brings NASA's Water Data to Life

Dec 01, 2023 (SPX)

"NASA is the U.S. space agency that provides end-to-end research about our home planet, and it is our job to inform the world about what we learn," said Kate Ca...

US to replace all lead water lines within 10 years

Nov 30, 2023 (AFP)

The new action comes after successful lawsuits filed by multiple states and nonprofits acting on behalf of impacted communities, which are disproportionately lo...

Being prepared for storm surges on the Baltic sea coast

Nov 30, 2023 (SPX)

The urgency of these studies is underlined by the record storm surge experienced in October 2023, which brought significant damage to the German Baltic coast. D...

Singapore mulls artificial islands for coastal defence

Nov 29, 2023 (AFP)

Engineering and environmental impact studies for the "Long Island" project will start in 2024 and take five years to finish, National Development Minister Desmo...