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October 19, 2022
Africa: How Do Fishes Scratch Their Itches? It Turns Out Sharks Are Involved
Imagine you're a big yellowfin tuna, miles from shore out in the blue, swimming around carefree, until you start to feel a little itch near your eye. Maybe it's just a scratch… Read more »
September 20, 2022
South Africa: South Africa Is Surrounded By Sea but Doesn't Have a Plan to Protect It - Three Steps to Get One
South Africa is surrounded by 2,798km of coastline. Yet, oddly, the country doesn't have a coherent maritime strategy underpinned by a related national strategy to safeguard its… Read more »
September 12, 2022
Africa: Scientists Are Divining the Future of Earth's Ice-Covered Oceans At Their Harsh Fringes
One of the harshest and most dynamic regions on Earth is the marginal ice zone - the place where ocean waves meet sea ice, which is formed by freezing of the ocean's surface. Read more »
September 07, 2022
Kenya: Lamu Port Was Meant to Deliver Great Things. But, As the Story of Local Fishermen Shows, It Hasn't
For nearly two decades, successive Kenyan governments have promoted mega infrastructure projects as a pathway to development. The Lamu Port has been one of them. Read more »
September 01, 2022
Africa: Seahorse Fathers Give Birth in a Unique Way, New Research Shows
In seahorses and pipefish, it is the male that gets pregnant and gives birth. Seahorse fathers incubate their developing embryos in a pouch located on their tail. Read more »
August 24, 2022
Somalia: Waiting for Ethiopia - Berbera Port Upgrade Raises Somaliland's Hopes for Trade
Berbera port is the main overseas trade gateway of the breakaway Republic of Somaliland. The port city is located on the Gulf of Aden - one of the globally most frequented seaways… Read more »
August 18, 2022
Ghana: Ghana Has Developed a Maritime Policy. Here Is What It Means
Ghana has an abundance of marine resources. They include fisheries, hydrocarbon reserves, inland waterways and ports that are located along important international shipping lanes.… Read more »
August 10, 2022
South Africa: Flipper Traces Reveal the Presence of Ancient Seals On South Africa's Coast
The world's largest and heaviest living carnivore is not a big cat, a bear or a wolf: it's the southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina). Bulls of this species can be 5 metres long… Read more »
July 25, 2022
East Africa: Dam Dispute - Five Key Reads About How It Started and How It Could End
The US has revived diplomatic efforts to resolve the dispute sparked by Ethiopia's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project on the Nile. Sudan and Egypt, which rely most… Read more »
July 24, 2022
South Africa: Fish in a Major River Are Full of Microplastics
We are living in the plastic age. Plastics are literally everywhere: clothes, furniture, computers, phones and more contain plastic materials. It's no wonder, then, that the food… Read more »
July 20, 2022
Africa: Giving Rivers Rights Aims to Protect the 'Voiceless' - But There's a Catch
Worldwide there has been a wave of initiatives to grant rivers rights as a way of protecting them - and the communities that rely on them. River rights laws aim to change the legal… Read more »
June 30, 2022
Africa: How Marine Fisheries Can Add Millions of Tonnes to Africa's Catch
The African continent produces seven million tonnes of marine fish a year. This capture has increased in recent years thanks to improved catches in west Africa and the end of… Read more »
June 24, 2022
Africa: Lakes Emit Far Less Greenhouse Gases Than Feared
One of the keys to predicting climate change is the modelling of how greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from natural ecosystems might evolve. This first requires estimating as… Read more »
June 14, 2022
South Africa: South Africa's Estuaries Face a Growing Threat From Pollution - We Took a Close Look At Four
In the popular imagination, estuaries don't have the prestige or the romanticism of their two constituent parts: the rivers that feed them with freshwater from one side, the ocean… Read more »
June 13, 2022
West Africa: We Attached Tracking Devices to West Africa's Green Turtles. This Is What We Learnt
Sea turtles have been swimming the world's oceans and nesting on its beaches for over 120 million years. They even survived mass extinction events, including the one that saw the… Read more »
June 07, 2022
East Africa: Four Novelists, One Ocean - How Indian Ocean Literature Can Remap the World
Novels make worlds. They create an intuitive sense and mental image of a place. And the senses of space produced by fiction shape how readers see the world itself, just like maps… Read more »
Africa: Alien Species Are Moving Across Oceans Faster - Climate Change Will Accelerate This
Oceans and coastlines have been subjected to human use for centuries. But the effects of human activity on the oceans are now more extensive, with the resulting changes happening… Read more »
Southern Africa: Worms in the Seas of Southern Africa - We're On a Journey to Setting the Record Straight
Polychaetes are segmented worms that live in nearly all marine habitats, from the shallow seashore or estuaries to the deep sea. They are very abundant, often making up as much as… Read more »
Southern Africa: Seagrass Meadows - Getting to Know These Unsung Heroes of Southern Africa's Oceans
Living in cities, often far from the ocean, means that many of us are not always able to appreciate how important the oceans are for supporting humanity. The oceans and their… Read more »
June 03, 2022
Ghana: A Root Cause of Flooding in Accra - Developers Clogging Up the City's Wetlands #AfricaClimateCrisis
Ghana has six designated Ramsar sites. These are wetlands designated under the criteria of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, an international treaty that seeks to protect them. In… Read more »
May 29, 2022
South Africa: Marine Life in a South African Bay Is Full of Chemical Pollutants
The adage "out of sight, out of mind" has long summed up humans' attitude to dumping personal and industrial waste. In a 1974 Scientific American article, the… Read more »
May 23, 2022
Senegal: Rising Sea Levels Are Driving Faster Erosion Along Senegal's Coast #AfricaClimateCrisis
Coastal retreat in West Africa is a pressing problem. The contact between land and sea on coasts produces intense erosion and sedimentation processes. When erosion is more intense… Read more »
January 15, 2017
Tanzania: Coral Reefs Off the Coast Are Being Destroyed, Most Beyond Repair
If current trends continue and countries fail to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, nearly all of the world's coral reefs will suffer severe bleaching on an annual basis, according… Read more »
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