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A new World Meteorological Organization report warns of the exacting toll that sand and dust storms are having on global health and economies. The report pinpoints South Africa’s West Coast as a dust ...
Macroinvertebrates include snails and larvae of dragonflies, caddisflies, mayflies and stoneflies, among others. They can be ...
Renewable electricity generation has grown more than twice as fast as total global electricity generation since 2012.
The African Plant Database lists 65,000 species of flowering plants, ferns and conifers found on the African continent and ...
The elusive spotted ground thrush was discovered by the founders of The LionHeart Experience, along with other ...
This study provides a checklist of aquatic vascular plants of South Brazil and establishes their floristic affinities with bordering South America phytogeographical domains. The checklist was based on ...
Chenin Blanc is the country’s most-planted grape variety, and features strongly in its unique Old Vine Project certification ...
Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth ...
Researchers are tracking multi-drug resistant bacteria in South Africa’s water to see how it endangers food safety when it’s ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Festus Adegbola, a University at Buffalo PhD student who is using remote sensing technology to monitor biodiversity from the air, has been awarded the Future Investigators in NASA ...
The map represents a flawed understanding of New World geography, such as picturing California as an island. Many maps of the Americas were produced during the period of exploration and colonial ...
The Vegetation Water Content (VWC) map for the Cloud and Land Surface Interaction Campaign 2007 (CLASIC07) was derived by calculating Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) from ResourceSat-1 ...