Tag Archives: Africa
From the brink to a comeback, hope for India’s wildlife
Across the world, scientists, governments and communities are bringing plants and animals back from the [...]
Oct
Bats first originated in Europe 65 million years ago, scientists say
From the largest ever study of bat genome and fossils, scientists deduced that the world’s [...]
Sep
China, Iran among countries that have used AI to aid spying, Anthropic argues
Anthropic said Thursday it shut down multiple cases of state-sponsored surveillance operations that used its [...]
Sep
Now for the first time, scientists scoured the country, sampled 126 mosquitoes from 13 regions
From its roots in Africa, the dengue-spreading mosquito , Aedes aegypti, expanded its range in [...]
Sep
Tackling Ebola, head on, and other stories
(In the weekly Health Matters newsletter, Ramya Kannan writes about getting to good health, and [...]
Aug
This year’s El Nino weather pattern will be the biggest in over a century and could make 2027
This year’s El Nino weather pattern will be the biggest in over a century and [...]
Aug
Ebola kills 1,700 in eastern Congo as fastest-growing outbreak surges
Ebola has killed more than 1,700 people in eastern Congo in the fastest-growing outbreak of [...]
Aug
Africa surpasses Asia with highest population facing hunger: UN
Africa has for the first time become the continent with the largest number of people [...]
Jul
‘Cruel, wasteful’: Dakar port a hotspot for illegal shark fins
In the high seas off west Africa, a fisherman on a Chinese longline tuna vessel [...]
Jul
