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Kenya's national parks not free from wildlife declines
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Long-term declines of elephants, giraffe, impala and other animals in Kenya are occurring at the same rates within the country's national parks as outside of these protected areas, according to a study released ...
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Virus death toll rises in Kenya
Jan 26, 2007 |
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Officials in Kenya are trying to stop the spread of Rift Valley Fever, which has killed at least 148 people.
Researchers investigate acceptability of potential HIV prevention device in Africa
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For some women in the poorest parts of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, being paid for sex is one of the few ways they are able to feed themselves and their children. In a region hit hard by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, ...
Growing Population Warming East African Nights?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 31, 2009 |
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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.
Kew Gardens provides climate for agricultural change
May 28, 2008 |
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A device to help some of the most impoverished farmers in Africa maximise their crop yields is being tested at London’s Kew Gardens.
New undersea cable gives Africa high-speed Internet
Jul 23, 2009 |
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A 13,700-kilometre (8,500-mile) undersea fibre-optic cable to provide high-speed Internet access on Africa's Indian Ocean coast went live on Thursday, its operator said.
Creationists object to evolution exhibit
Nov 09, 2007 |
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An unprecedented exhibit of early human fossils at a Kenyan museum has pitted religious creationists against scientists.
Japan: China must commit on global warming
Nov 06, 2006 |
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Japan's chief negotiator at the Kyoto conference in Nairobi Monday called on China to let the United Nations know what it is doing about greenhouse gases.
Nobel laureate has 1 billion tree plan
Nov 08, 2006 |
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai introduced a plan in Kenya to plant 1 billion trees in 2007 to fight the effects of climate change.
EU set for purchase of more carbon units
Nov 09, 2006 |
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The European Union plans to set aside $2.94 billion in the next year to buy carbon dioxide credits under the Kyoto protocol's Clean Development Mechanism.
Chronic HIV-1 infection frequently fails to protect against superinfection
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 16, 2007 |
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Natural HIV-1 infection does not always elicit a protective immune response, according to a new study published November 16 in PLoS Pathogens. The team of researchers from Washington University, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer ...
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