Africa

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First Global Scientific Eating Plan Forgets the World’s Poor

Silvia Alonso, Isabelle Baltenweck, Lora Iannotti and Paula Dominguez-Salas 01/03/2019

The authors do not explain how the world’s less...

Scientists to Test Tailor-Made Vaccine Technology to Fight Epidemics

Reuters 10/12/2018

The saRNA (self-amplifying RNA) approach is to harness the...

A fingerprint-like gravity wave feature occurs over a deck of marine stratocumulus clouds over the Indian Ocean, October 2003. Caption and credit: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team

New Suspect Emerges in Mystery of What Drives Clouds Away Over the Atlantic

Ronak Gupta 07/09/2018

Like a buffer between the upper atmosphere and Earth,...

The area in South Kenya where the large crack recently appeared. Credit: Google Earth. Data SIO, NOAA, US Navy, NGA, GEBCO

Large Crack in East Africa Evidence of the Continent Splitting Into Two

Lucia Perez Diaz 03/04/2018

Though the appearance of the crack and other seismic...

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Hunters Should Stop Using Lead Bullets and Help Save the Vultures

Arjun Amar and Beckie Garbett 16/03/2018

A new threat to vultures is emerging: lead poisoning...

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Why Africa Needs to Start Focusing on the Issue of Mental Health

Crick Lund 12/02/2018

Absence of treatment is the norm rather than the...

Handout of staff of the Teaching Hospital receiving the first vaccination treatment for yellow fever in El Geneina, West Darfur

Brazil’s Death Toll From Yellow Fever Triples: WHO

Reuters 24/01/2018

Yellow fever is a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes...