Kenyan officials impound two tonnes of ivory: police
Maps used to convey relationship between rainfall and 'human vulnerability' in 8 countries
The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) has worked closely with CARE and the United Nations University to develop a series of maps illustrating results from case studies in ...
Sep 11, 2012
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Dawn of humanity illuminated in special journal edition -- 50 years after the Leakeys
The first systematic, multidisciplinary results to come out of research conducted on the edge of the Serengeti at the rich palaeoanthropological site in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania since that produced by ...
Aug 21, 2012
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Endangered languages get a Google protection plan
Google unveiled an online information exchange platform to try to give some extra lasting power to more than 3,000 endangered languages.
Jul 18, 2012
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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 ...
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.
Jul 15, 2011
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Tanzanian forests in near crisis due to bushmeat hunting, habitat degradation
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.
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.
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.
Mar 12, 2009
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