News tagged with tanzania
Pay-as-you-go approach to powering the world
(PhysOrg.com) -- Vijay Modi, a professor of mechanical engineering, is working to create sustainable energy models for cities, such as New York, where current infrastructure will not be able to support future ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 26, 2011 |
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The full moon indicates impending danger from lion attack
Be sure to check the sky if you ever set out for a nighttime stroll in southeastern Tanzania. If the moon is full, continue. But if the sky is dark, turn back – or you may be a lion's dinner.
Jul 20, 2011 |
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It works! Human-powered drill strikes water in Tanzania
A human-powered drill built by a team of BYU engineering students was meant to be inexpensive, easy to operate and easy to move. Field tests in Tanzania have shown the drill does just what it's supposed to do.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 15, 2011 |
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Tanzanian forests in near crisis due to bushmeat hunting, habitat degradation
The populations of several animal species in southern Tanzania are suffering alarming declines due to bushmeat hunting and habitat degradation, and urgent action is needed to prevent the collapse of local ...
Feb 04, 2011 |
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Study to link climate and early human evolution
Geologists at the University of Liverpool are excavating a two-million-year-old World Heritage Site in Tanzania to understand how climate variations may have contributed to early human evolution.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 12, 2010 |
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Growing Population Warming East African Nights?
Nights are getting hotter in Nairobi and other inland cities as growing populations change sensitive local weather patterns, according to research at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Rabies deaths from dog bites could be eliminated
Someone in the developing world - particularly in rural Africa - dies from a rabid dog bite every 10 minutes.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 12, 2009 |
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