UD students win senior thesis award
Brandywine East Community News
By Leigh Hunziker John Paul Harris, a plant and soil sciences major and honors program student, is one of 23 recipients of Winter Session Senior Thesis Awards from Delaware University's Undergraduate Research Program. The $700 grants have enabled these ...

Andrews award to scientist: Wolfe tracks dangerous microbes across globe
Beloit Daily News
by Deb De Hart Nathan Wolfe became enthralled with the power of science at a young age, he said. That zeal to learn more and explore more has led him to adventures around the globe in his work with the unseen world of microbiology.

Ghana Business News
ECOWAS Commission to aid Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine
Ghana Business News
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, is to solicit support from the West Africa Health Organisation and other collaborators, to upgrade the Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine (CSRPM).
ECOWAS Commission to support CSRPMGhana Broadcasting Corporation

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Anand Agricultural University begins genetic study of flamingos
Times of India
Further, the findings of this study will be compared with those conducted by European scientists on African flamingos. BM Parasharya, a research scientist (ornithology) along with DN Rank, in association with AAU, has taken up the project to conduct ...

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1500-year-old Savanur trees draw believers in hordes
Times of India
These trees, called Doddahunase mara in the region, are known as Baobab trees usually found in Africa and rather rare in India. They're protected by fencing with the help of the tourism department and are numbered 1, 2 and 3. People believe that food ...

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Lively snake and lizard exhibit at Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Denver Post
Things are about to get a lot more lively at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. The cultural institution best known for its collection of mummies, fossils and dinosaur bones is bringing in live animals for its new "Lizards & Snakes" exhibit, ...

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Financial Times
Bananas become ripe GM target
Financial Times
By Clive Cookson Opponents of genetic crop modification sometimes point out that similar results can be achieved by applying modern technology to conventional plant breeding techniques. But that is not true of bananas – a crop important not only for ...

Financial Times
Bananas become ripe GM target
Financial Times
By Clive Cookson Opponents of genetic crop modification sometimes point out that similar results can be achieved by applying modern technology to conventional plant breeding techniques. But that is not true of bananas – a crop important not only for ...

Solar Energy Stocks
Investment U
by Ryan Fitzwater, Investment U Research While the story for solar power in the developed world has been nothing investors can clap about, they might find something worth their applause in emerging markets. For a majority of the world, ...

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Global Animal
Rat Disguised As Skunk Gets Poisonous
Global Animal
(ANIMAL SCIENCE) In nature, many animals use elements in the environment to become poisonous and help protect themselves from predators. The African Crested Rat has a trick up his sleeve, one that's dangerous even for him. But don't be fooled by his ...

Global Animal
Rat Disguised As Skunk Gets Poisonous
Global Animal
(ANIMAL SCIENCE) In nature, many animals use elements in the environment to become poisonous and help protect themselves from predators. The African Crested Rat has a trick up his sleeve, one that's dangerous even for him. But don't be fooled by his ...

Tanzanian Royalty Awards Contract for Preliminary Economic Assessment of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
A favorable conclusion to the PEA would see the commencement of a Definitive Feasibility Study that would support the Company's mining license submission and provide a basis for plant design and related work which would be completed on a "turnkey" ...

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Wildlife decline in Okavango Delta ignites tourism fears
Mmegi Online
It is common knowledge that the Okavango Delta, which originates in the Angola highlands, is renowned as Africa's most beautiful wetland; a habitat of various animal and plants life species visited by queens, kings and other imminent persons from ...

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ANC Study Said to Propose S. Africa Mine Resource-Rent Tax
BusinessWeek
South Africa is the world's biggest producer of platinum, chrome and manganese and supplies coal to power plants in Europe and India. In April 2010, Citigroup Inc. valued the country's mineral resources at $2.5 trillion, the most of any nation.

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SUU professor teaches in Africa
St. George Daily Spectrum
Jon M. Smith, communication professor at Southern Utah University, poses next to a rhinoceros in the Kingdom of Swaziland in southern Africa. / SUBMITTED PHOTO Jon M. Smith, communication professor at Southern Utah University, is working as a Fulbright ...

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Knoxville Republican says AIDS came from man having sex with a monkey then ...
PolitiFact
It was somebody in Africa. Do you know the history of AIDS? Because I can tell you in a minute? It was somebody in Africa who actually killed a monkey, because they eat the meat of many animals, as I'm sure you do, I'm sure you eat the meat of animals.

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CBS Local
Celebrate Black History Month In Metro Detroit
CBS Local
Wild Swan Theatre will present Under the African Sky, a collection of African tales performed through storytelling, acting and drumming. Performances take place on Saturday and Sunday at noon and 1:30 pm The weekend also features African animal ...

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Ghana Business News
International Policy Dialogue on agricultural research underway in Ghana
Ghana Business News
According to IIED, the three-day dialogue which ends on Friday, February 3, 2012, has in attendance UK parliamentarians and civil servants, as well as African farmers, international donors and scientists. A press release announcing the dialogue said ...

ABC Science Online
Australian scientist proposes importing elephants, rhinos to combat wildfires
Public Radio International PRI
Now, an Australian scientist is proposing a controversial solution: importing elephants and rhinoceroses to eat the plant, known as gamba grass. Gamba grass was imported from Africa in the 1930s. Scientists brought it to Australia for cattle farmers ...
Elephants as Possible Solution to Stop Australia's WildfiresPRI's The World
Introduce elephants to solve bushfire risks: professorSydney Morning Herald
Should we introduce elephants to Australia?Cosmos
ABC Science Online -New Scientist
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Australian scientist proposes importing elephants, rhinos to combat wildfires
Public Radio International PRI
Now, an Australian scientist is proposing a controversial solution: importing elephants and rhinoceroses to eat the plant, known as gamba grass. Gamba grass was imported from Africa in the 1930s. Scientists brought it to Australia for cattle farmers ...
Elephants as Possible Solution to Stop Australia's WildfiresPRI's The World
Trumpets of outrage in the outbackBBC News
Bring elephants to Australia?ABC Science Online
Sydney Morning Herald -New Scientist -Cosmos
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