Both plant and human diseases that can travel with the wind have the potential to spread far more rapidly than has been understood, according to a new study, in findings that pose serious concerns not only for some human ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 25, 2009
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As tourists pose for selfies on the shores of Lake Victoria in Uganda, factories within spitting distance of the source of the Nile dump their waste directly into Africa's longest river.
Environment
Nov 2, 2022
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Alexandria, Egypt's fabled second city and its biggest port, is in danger of disappearing below the waves within decades.
Environment
Nov 2, 2022
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In the Sudanese village of Makaylab, Mohamed Tigani picked through the pile of rubble that was once his mud-brick home, after torrential rains sparked heavy floods that swept it away.
Environment
Aug 23, 2022
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Ethiopia announced Friday it has completed the third filling of its mega-dam on the Blue Nile, a new milestone that could raise further tensions with downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan.
Environment
Aug 12, 2022
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Iowans might notice some new uninvited guests crashing their summer barbecues this year.
Plants & Animals
Feb 11, 2022
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Ethiopia said Monday it had attained its second-year target for filling a mega-dam on the Blue Nile River that has stoked tensions with downstream countries Egypt and Sudan.
Environment
Jul 19, 2021
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Ethiopia's construction of a massive dam on a tributary of the Nile River, which the UN Security Council meets about on Thursday, is raising regional tensions notably with Egypt, which depends on the Nile for 97 percent of ...
Environment
Jul 8, 2021
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Ethiopia says it has started the next phase of filling a controversial mega-dam on the Nile River, Egyptian authorities said Monday, raising tensions ahead of an upcoming UN Security Council on the issue.
Environment
Jul 6, 2021
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Flooding has affected well over a million people across East Africa, another calamity threatening food security on top of a historic locust outbreak and the coronavirus pandemic.
Environment
Sep 18, 2020
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