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2 billion-year-old African nuclear reactor proves that Mother Nature still has a few tricks up her sleeve
2014-05-01 16:42:47| Extremetech
There has only ever been one natural nuclear reactor found, but study of how it worked, and why, is still informing nuclear decision-making to this very day.
In Troubled African National Park, New Battle Over Oil Exploration
2014-05-01 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale 360: Africas oldest national park will soon be echoing with the sounds of geologists conducting seismic surveys to establish the size of the parks oil reserves -- in direct defiance of requests from the United Nations, conservation groups, and the British government. The survey in Virunga National Park, a World Heritage Site in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is set to begin any day now. This comes just two weeks after the parks chief warden, Belgian prince and conservationist...
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Climate change to intensify important African weather systems
2014-05-01 10:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Climate change could strengthen African easterly waves, which could in turn have consequences for rainfall in the Sahel region of northern Africa, formation of Atlantic hurricanes and dust transport across the Atlantic Ocean. Weather systems that bring rainstorms to many drought-prone areas of northern Africa, carry Saharan dust across the ocean and seed Atlantic hurricanes could grow stronger as a result of human-caused climate change, a new analysis by Stanford scientists suggests. Known...
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Tsetse Fly Genome Breakthrough Brings Hope for African Livestock Farmers
2014-04-30 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
AFRICA - Scientists have cracked the genetic code of the bloodsucking tsetse fly, prompting hope that the breakthrough will help future efforts to control one of the most devastating livestock diseases in sub-Saharan Africa spread by the insect.
NASA on the trail of climate change, watches African rainforest turn brown
2014-04-23 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
VentureBeat: It will be a profound irony if NASA`s lasting value will be to document from space the planet`s decline. Case in point: The agency released today a scientific visualization video showing the transition of the entire African rainforest in the Congo from green to a drought-stricken brown. The visualization is based on data from NASA satellites, and the related study is published today in the scientific journal Nature. The rainforest is the second largest in the world, after the Amazon. "It`s...
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