WATER WORLD - NANO DAILY

Food limitation linked to record California sea lion pup strandings

Mar 07, 2016 (SPX)

Large numbers of California sea lion pups have flooded animal rescue centers in Southern California in the past few years. Now, as part of an ongoing investigat...

Reduce, reuse, recycle: Safe for water?

Mar 04, 2016 (SPX)

What would you do without water? Farmers in drought areas are especially concerned by this question. As fresh water resources become scarce, one option for wate...

Coastal aquifers better than seawater as source for desalination

Mar 04, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have determined that saline groundwater from coastal aquifers is a better alternative water source than ...

Water returns to Syria's Aleppo: official

Mar 04, 2016 (AFP)

Water returned on Friday to pumping stations in Aleppo city, a water services official said, after the longest cut left residents without supplies for three mon...

An integrated evaluation framework for water storage strategies in Sub-Sahara Africa

Mar 02, 2016 (SPX)

The current study proposes a multi-criteria decision aid framework to funding agencies for the integrated evaluation of water storage systems in Ethiopia and mo...

The overlooked commotion of particle motion in the ocean

Mar 02, 2016 (SPX)

Most aquatic species sense sound via particle motion, yet few studies on underwater acoustic ecology have included measurements of particle motion. In response,...

New research helps solve the riddle of the ocean carbon conundrum

Mar 02, 2016 (SPX)

About a quarter of the carbon dioxide we release each year into the atmosphere ends up in the ocean, but how it happens is still not fully understood. The Senti...

Evidence of coral bleaching on Barrier Reef as sea warms

Mar 01, 2016 (AFP)

Scientists Tuesday warned coral bleaching was occurring on the Great Barrier Reef as sea temperatures warm, and it could rapidly accelerate unless cooler condit...

Syria's Aleppo gets taste of peace but thirsts for water

Mar 01, 2016 (AFP)

A landmark ceasefire has lifted the burden of daily rocket attacks and bomb blasts in Syria's second city Aleppo -- but not its residents' profound thirst. Citi...

Palau welcomes Japanese pledge for marine sanctuary patrol boat

Mar 01, 2016 (AFP)

The tiny Pacific nation of Palau has welcomed a pledge from Japanese charities to supply a large patrol boat to help stamp out illegal fishing. Palau last year ...

Microorganisms duke it out within algal blooms

Mar 01, 2016 (SPX)

An unseen war rages between the ocean's tiniest organisms, and it has significant implications for understanding the ocean's role in climate change, according t...

New prediction tool gives warning of rogue waves

Feb 29, 2016 (SPX)

Sailing history is rife with tales of monster-sized rogue waves - huge, towering walls of water that seemingly rise up from nothing to dwarf, then deluge, vesse...

Water-cleaning chemical made 'on-demand' with new group of catalysts

Feb 29, 2016 (SPX)

A quick, cheap and highly efficient method for producing a water-purifying chemical has been developed by researchers at Cardiff University. The team, from the ...

US releases Iraq dam collapse evacuation advice

Feb 29, 2016 (AFP)

The US embassy in Iraq has released evacuation recommendations it said could help save up to 1.5 million lives at risk from a catastrophic failure of the Mosul ...

NASA Demonstrates Airborne Water Quality Sensor

Feb 26, 2016 (JPL)

Monitoring the quality of freshwater supplies is a global concern, especially in thirsty California, where the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary and its watershed...

Herring fishery's strength is in the sum of its parts, study finds

Feb 26, 2016 (SPX)

A wise investor plays the financial market by maintaining a variety of stocks. In the long run, the whole portfolio will be more stable because of the diversity...

Climate change speeds up gully erosion

Feb 26, 2016 (SPX)

The erosion of large natural channels by flowing water - gully erosion - can wreak havoc on fields, roads, and buildings. In some cases, the sudden expansion of...

Sentinel-3 and the ocean carbon conundrum

Feb 26, 2016 (ESA)

Each year, about a quarter of the carbon dioxide we release into the atmosphere ends up in the ocean, but how it happens is still not fully understood. The Sent...

World's corals under threat

Feb 25, 2016 (ESA)

The current El Nino weather phenomenon is taking its toll on coral reefs, prompting a field campaign to the middle of the Pacific Ocean to explore how Europe's ...

World's large river deltas continue to degrade from human activity

Feb 25, 2016 (SPX)

From the Yellow River in China to the Mississippi River in Louisiana, researchers are racing to better understand and mitigate the degradation of some of the wo...