Tanzania's Kikwete to inaugurate IITA Science Building dedicated to the fight ...
Africa Science News Service
Dr Mrisho Jakaya Kikwete, the President of Tanzania will, on 13 May, inaugurate the IITA Science Building in Dar es Salaam. The inauguration will be followed by a workshop with the theme "Grow Africa and the role of agricultural research by national ...

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Warmer Climate Threatens Africa's Vital Cassava Crop
Climate Central
Research published in the journal Tropical Plant Biology found it could cope with the temperature rises of up to 2°C expected in West Africa by 2030, and would generally outperform six other crops — potato, maize, bean, banana, millet, and sorghum.
Global Partnership Intends to Fight Cassava VirusesScience AAAS

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Trees to Earn Local US$14.3 MIllion
AllAfrica.com
Kemri principal scientist James Kairo said the group is required to plant 4,000 mangroves every year to sustain the project. He said the project also supports mangrove fisheries and reduces sea line erosion in the area. Kairo said random mangrove trees ...

San Francisco Chronicle
Greenhouse gas milestone; CO2 levels set record
Boston.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said Friday. Carbon dioxide ... ''Physically, we are no worse off ...
Carbon dioxide levels hit a milestonePress Herald

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Citrus Disease With No Cure Is Ravaging Florida Groves
New York Times
While the bacteria, which causes fruit to turn bitter and drop from the trees when still unripe, affects all citrus fruits, it has been most devastating to oranges, the largest crop. So many have been affected ... “The long and short of it is that the ...

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Science World Report
Earliest Archaeological Evidence of Human Ancestors Hunting and Scavenging
Science Daily (press release)
... Hunting and Scavenging. May 10, 2013 — A recent Baylor University research study has shed new light on the diet and food acquisition strategies of some the earliest human ancestors in Africa. ... In contrast to small antelope carcasses, the heads ...
Earliest Evidence of Human Hunting and Scavenging DiscoveredScience World Report
Earliest Evidence Of Human Ancestors Using Hunting, Scavenging Techniques ...Nature World News

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National Geographic
Restaurant's Lion Tacos Renew Exotic Meat Debate
National Geographic
Added Luke Dollar, grant-program director of the Big Cats Initiative: "While these aren't lions that have a realistic chance of roaming the African plains some day, the use of them for food animals has to be considered ethically questionable." Exotic ...

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Science In Action - Megabeast Extinction
BBC News
Why saving the cassava crop in Africa is a growing concern, and water inside Earth and the moon may have a common origin. Did climate ... For most of the Ice Age that characterized our planet for the last 2 million years or so Australia and New Guinea ...

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BBC News
'Twenty-six' forest elephants slaughtered in Central Africa
BBC News
WWF reported the number of carcasses, quoting its sources in the region. Concern about what was happening in the park was raised earlier this week when it was said that ivory poachers were using a scientist's observation platform to shoot the animals.

Scientists work to control cassava plant disease in Africa
Nigerian Tribune
Scientists and agriculture experts are meeting in Bellagio, Italy this week to work out how to fight a deadly plant virus that has been annihilating cassava crops in East Africa for nearly a decade. Recent outbreaks of this “rapidly proliferating ...

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Baylor University Researcher Finds Earliest Archaeological Evidence of Human ...
Baylor University
WACO, Texas (May 9, 2013) -- A recent Baylor University research study has shed new light on the diet and food acquisition strategies of some the earliest human ancestors in Africa. Beginning around two million years ago, early stone tool-making humans ...

Popular Science
FYI: Why Are There No Native Monkeys In North America?
Popular Science
We've found evidence of palm trees in Alaska from that era. The entire planet, besides the very tips of the Arctic and Antarctic, was probably covered in rainforests, much of it tropical. For a monkey coming over from Africa, North America would have ...

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Wall Street Journal's Idiocracy: CO2 Is What Plants Crave
Media Matters for America
The op-ed argues that we should be "clamoring for more" carbon dioxide because it is a "boon to plant life," ignoring scientific research establishing that our excessive carbon dioxide emissions are rapidly changing the climate, which will have ...

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BBC News
Fears of forest elephant slaughter in Central Africa
BBC News
A heavily armed gang has killed an unknown number of elephants at a world heritage site in the Central African Republic. WWF says that ivory poachers were seen using a scientist's observation platform to shoot the animals, which gather there in large ...
Fears realized: 26 elephants killed by poachersNBCNews.com (blog)
Madness in the Village of Elephants: 26 Pachyderms SlaughteredYahoo! News
Elephant Poachers Open Fire at World Heritage Site, Death Toll UnknownNature World News

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Scientific American (blog)
Dye and Poison Stop Rhino Poachers
Scientific American (blog)
However, there is absolutely no scientific evidence this actually works. According to the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC, more than 50% of Asians caught in South Africa in 2012 were Vietnamese citizens. As a matter of fact, there even exists ...

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Ventures Africa
South Africa To construct New Nuclear Power Plants
Ventures Africa
VENTURES AFRICA – The South African government has signalled intent to pursue construction of a new nuclear power plants (NPPs) and increase the amount of nuclear-generated electricity in the country to 9.6 GW by 2030, a cabinet Minister said on ...

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Cuba Hosts Int'l Congress on Plant Biotechnology
Prensa Latina
The event began yesterday with a lecture, by Nobel Prizewinner in Chemistry German Robert Huber, on structural biology and its contribution to research in plants. Dr. Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, vice president of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba, also ...

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Giant deadly African snails have invaded Texas!!
Houston Press (blog)
on plants and wildlife. "Damages native plants and crops," says TexasInvasives.org. "Scientists consider the giant African snail, Achatina fulica, to be one of the most damaging snails in the world. It is known to eat at least 500 different types of ...

Africa: Speech By Mohamed Omar, Somaliland Foreign Minister At Africa ...
AllAfrica.com
By Mohamed Omar, 1 May 2013. document. Dateline-If Needed — This speech was presented by Mohamed Omar at Africa Research Institute on 1st May 2013 to mark the launch of "After Borama: consensus, representation and parliament in Somaliland".

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San Francisco Chronicle
Warmer climate 'threatens cassava crop'
YubaNet (press release)
Research published in the journal Tropical Plant Biology found it could cope with the temperature rises of up to 2°C expected in West Africa by 2030, and would generally outperform six other crops – potato, maize, bean, banana, millet, and sorghum.
Disease Is Ravaging Continent's StapleNew York Times (blog)
Scientist: Cassava disease spread at alarming ratePhys.Org

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