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Drought tolerant cowpea can improve crop yield in arid West Africa
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Even the highly drought-resistant cowpea (a long type of legume) now has an increasingly difficult time surviving in the Sahel countries where climate change has resulted in shorter and less frequent rainy seasons. Wageningen ...
Rare crane in first Uganda sighting
May 14, 2009 |
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A rare crane species never before seen in Uganda has been spotted in the eastern part of the country, the executive director of Nature Uganda told AFP on Thursday.
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Amazon rainforest grows best in dry season
Mar 21, 2006 |
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University of Arizona scientists say they've made a surprising discovery: the undisturbed Amazon rainforest grows best during the dry season
Dry season brings on measles in sub-Saharan Africa
Feb 06, 2008 |
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Measles epidemics in Niger fluctuate wildly from one season to another but the timing of the outbreaks always coincides with the end of the annual rainy season, according to an international team of researchers.
Early promising results in malaria vaccine trial in Mali
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 23, 2008 |
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A small clinical trial conducted by an international team of researchers in Mali has found that a candidate malaria vaccine was safe and elicited strong immune responses in the 40 Malian adults who received it.
Diet secrets of 'the Royals' -- Elephant tail hair isotopes show cattle out-munch pachyderms
Apr 13, 2009 |
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Two weeks after the rains begin, an elephant family named "the Royals" usually switches to a grass diet to bulk up for pregnancy and birth. But when they wandered off their African reserve one rainy season, ...
Exotic Chameleon Spends Most of its Life as an Egg
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Jul 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered a chameleon species that spends a good two-thirds of its life inside an egg: Furcifer labordi lives about 8-9 months as an embryo, and has a post-hatching lifesp ...
Baby with 'external heart' recovers after surgery: reports
Sep 04, 2009 |
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A 10-day-old baby born with a heart on the outside of his body is recovering in an Indian hospital after undergoing surgery to create space for the organ, reports said Friday.
South Florida heading for serious drought
Apr 30, 2007 |
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Despite heavy rains during the past month, scientists say South Florida is on its way to a serious drought.
Flu viruses take one-way ticket out of Asia, then travel the world
Apr 16, 2008 |
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Seasonal influenza strains constantly evolve in overlapping epidemics in Asia and sweep the rest of the world each year, an international research team has found.
Climate change a threat to Indonesian agriculture, study says
May 02, 2007 |
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Rice farming in Indonesia is greatly affected by short-term climate variability and could be harmed significantly by long-term climate change, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford University, ...
NASA data show some African drought linked to warmer Indian Ocean
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 05, 2008 |
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A new study, co-funded by NASA, has identified a link between a warming Indian Ocean and less rainfall in eastern and southern Africa. Computer models and observations show a decline in rainfall, with implications ...
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