Month: February 2021

A man walks along a beach in the aftermath of an oil spill that drenched much of the Mediterranean shoreline, in Tyre nature reserve

Oil Spill off Israel Reaches South Lebanese Beaches

Reuters 24/02/2021

It will take months or years to clean up...

A woman walks with her daughter as schools reopen amid a nationwide coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown in Eikenhof, south of Johannesburg, South Africa August 24, 2020.

India Sends First Vaccine Doses To Africa Under WHO’s Covax Programme

Reuters 24/02/2021

Serum Institute of India will also start producing the...

Medical staff working with Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) prepare to bring food to patients kept in an isolation area at the MSF Ebola treatment centre in Kailahun July 20, 2014. REUTERS/Tommy Trenchard

Ebola Strikes West Africa Again – Key Questions

Mosoka Fallah 24/02/2021

The current outbreak in Guinea is due to the...

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New Alpine Plant Species Discovered in Arunachal’s Tawang District

The alpine plant species are critically endangered according to...

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The New Geospatial Data Guidelines Are Revolutionary – but Can Also Do More

Raj Bhagat Palanichamy 24/02/2021

The biggest drawback with the new guidelines have to...

The Wider Image: Farmers fight back: making animal feed from a locust plague

Kenya’s Communities Turn Locust Swarms Into Profitable Animal Feed

Baz Ratner 23/02/2021

The Bug Picture is working with communities in central...

A tigress carries her cub at a zoological park in the northeastern city of Guwahati October 24, 2007. REUTERS/Utpal Baruah

Study Suggests Habitat Loss Is Leading To Inbreeding of Indian Tigers

The study found that several individual tigers in the...