A shipment of 259 elephant tusks smuggled out of Africa has been seized in the United Arab Emirates, the International Wildlife Fund for Animal Welfare said Tuesday.

Biology - Ecology

May 21, 2013 not rated yet 0

Scientists say a disease destroying entire crops of cassava has spread out of East Africa into the heart of the continent, is attacking plants as far south as Angola and now threatens to move west into Nigeria, ...

Biology - Biotechnology

May 07, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Gemalto, the world's leading maker of computer chip-embedded cards widely used by credit companies and for a host of other applications, posted on Thursday a seven percent rise in first quarter sales owing for the most part ...

Technology - Business

Apr 25, 2013 not rated yet 0

A dental study of fossilized remains found in South Africa in 2008 provides new support that this species is one of the closest relatives to early humans.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Apr 11, 2013 not rated yet 0

Loss of land through desertification and drought costs up to five percent of world agricultural gross domestic product (AGDP), or some $450 billion (340 billion euros), every year, said a study presented ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 09, 2013 not rated yet 0

A leading British wildlife charity appealed for volunteers on Saturday to help guard its herds of black rhino which are being targeted by poachers.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 30, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 4

In 2011 a powerful drought gripped East Africa. The failure of both the 2010 fall rains and the 2011 spring rains caused a drought that, stacked on an already unstable political climate, caused a famine that led to hundreds ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 15, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 14

Global warming may have contributed to low rain levels in Somalia in 2011 where tens of thousands died in a famine, research by British climate scientists suggests.

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 15, 2013 3.8 / 5 (13) 100

A joint expedition of scientists led by Chapurukha M. Kusimba of The Field Museum and Sloan R. Williams of the University of Illinois at Chicago has unearthed a 600-year-old Chinese coin on the Kenyan island ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 13, 2013 4.8 / 5 (16) 12 |

Faced with poachers who are ravaging elephant and rhino populations, African nations could do worse than look to Namibia for a game plan to combat the scourge.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 27, 2013 4.6 / 5 (5) 5

(Phys.org)—In an effort to bring fresh water to rural Kenyans, School of International Affairs (SIA) students Kory Hansen and Jin Ju Kim participated in Penn State's Humanitarian Engineering and Social ...

Technology - Engineering

Jan 10, 2013 4 / 5 (4) 1 |

Elephant, giraffe and zebra in the world's newest nation South Sudan could soon be extinct due to rampant poaching and trafficking, conservation experts warned Tuesday.

Biology - Ecology

Dec 04, 2012 not rated yet 0

Dr. Sarah Glaser, a visiting professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, has received a two-year, $243,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to continue her study of the links between ...

Biology - Ecology

Nov 19, 2012 not rated yet 0

While a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder shows the risk of human conflict in East Africa increases somewhat with hotter temperatures and drops a bit with higher precipitation, it concludes that socioeconomic, ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Oct 22, 2012 not rated yet 5 |

Plant scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a new African cassava preferred by consumers and farmers that is resistant to the two major virus diseases in Africa. Now they want to test the resistant cassava in Africa.

Biology - Biotechnology

Sep 26, 2012 not rated yet 0