News tagged with southern africa
Dead ahead: Less rainfall for drought-sensitive southern hemisphere regions?
(Phys.org) -- Warming climate may mean less rainfall for drought-sensitive regions of the Southern Hemisphere, according to results just published by an international research team.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 21, 2012 |
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'Space ball' drops on Namibia
A large metallic ball fell out of the sky on a remote grassland in Namibia, prompting baffled authorities to contact NASA and the European space agency.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 22, 2011 |
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Project uses mummy DNA to differentiate croc species
The Nile crocodile is a species that was identified by ancient Egyptians. Genetic analysis done by a group of geneticists using samples taken from species throughout the animal's range and including DNA from mummified crocodile ...
Dec 19, 2011 |
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A new species of fossil silky lacewing insects that lived more than 120 million years ago
A team of researchers from the Capital Normal University in Beijing (China) and the Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences in Vladivostok (Russia) has discovered a remarkable silky lacewing insect from the ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 05, 2011 |
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New family of wasps found in North American amber, closest relatives in southern hemisphere
After being alerted by Alexandr Rasnitsyn (Palaeontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) to two unusual wasps in amber found in New Jersey, USA, Denis Brothers (University of KwaZulu-Natal, ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Neanderthals ate shellfish 150,000 years ago: study
Neanderthal cavemen supped on shellfish on the Costa del Sol 150,000 years ago, punching a hole in the theory that modern humans alone ate brain-boosting seafood so long ago, a new study shows.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 15, 2011 |
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S.African police may tap into Blackberry smartphones
The South African government is considering allowing police access to the Blackberry smartphone's encrypted messenger service to help catch criminals, reports said Tuesday.
Sep 06, 2011 |
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AIDS drug supplies dwindling in Swaziland
(AP) -- Cash-strapped Swaziland's state hospitals have only two months' supplies of AIDS drugs, the country's health minister has told parliament in an assessment that AIDS patients and activists took as a death sentence.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 28, 2011 |
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UN calls for eco-friendly farming to boost yields
The United Nations food agency on Monday called for greater use of environmentally sustainable techniques by poor farmers in order to increase crop intensity to feed the world's growing population.
Jun 13, 2011 |
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'Super varieties' of wheat expected to boost yields and block deadly threat to food security
Five years after the launch of a global effort to protect the world's most important food crop from variants of Ug99, a new and deadly form of wheat rust, scientists say they are close to producing super varieties of wheat ...
Jun 10, 2011 |
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UN-led alliance focuses on young people and AIDS
(AP) -- When AIDS counselor Patience Ncusani urges teens in her Soweto neighborhood to wait to have sex, or cautions young women that an older boyfriend can be deadly, she has special rapport.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 01, 2011 |
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La Nina outlook is easing says UN weather agency
La Nina, the disruptive weather pattern behind floods and droughts, is easing and there are no signs suggesting a resurgence in the coming months, the UN weather agency said on Monday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 23, 2011 |
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Africa's national parks hit by mammal declines
AFRICAN national parks like Masai Mara and the Serengeti have seen populations of large mammals decline by up to 59 per cent, according to a study published in Biological Conservation.
Jul 12, 2010 |
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Scientists' high hopes for explaining high elevation of Southern Africa
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow are embarking on a project to try to establish how and when southern Africa obtained its unusually high elevation - which might also explain a key event in human evolution.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Japanese researchers film rare baby fish 'fossil'
Japanese marine researchers said Tuesday they had found and successfully filmed a young coelacanth -- a rare type of fish known as "a living fossil" -- in deep water off Indonesia.
Nov 17, 2009 |
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