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- Permafrost near the equator; hummingbirds near the subarctic 15 Nov 2009 01:52 GMT
... FAIRBANKS — Scientist and explorer Kenji Yoshikawa found permafrost on ... permafrost on Mount Kilimanjaro, a volcano in Tanzania. During a September climb of Africa’s highest ... UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute. ...
- World's Species Face Mounting Struggle To Survive 15 Nov 2009 03:39 GMT
... is under threat from slash-and-burn farming. "The scientific evidence of a serious extinction crisis is ... only known from the Kihansi Falls in Tanzania, where it was formerly abundant with a ... 2,639 of which are threatened with extinction. Scientists added 1,360 dragonflies and damselflies, bringing the ...
- Africa's Rarest Monkey Had An Intriguing Sexual Past, DNA Study Confirms 14 Nov 2009 04:35 GMT
... fur, the kipunji (key-POON-jee) was unknown to science until 2003, when it was discovered in ... discovered in a remote region of southern Tanzania. Until recently, little was known about its ... was known about its biology except what scientists could glean from observations and a single ...
- Rarest monkey sprang from intriguing sexual past 14 Nov 2009 11:13 GMT
... brown fur, the kipunji was unknown to science until 2003, when it was discovered in ... discovered in a remote region of southern Tanzania. The first analyses revealed that kipunji represented ... DNA samples collected from dung and tissue, scientists have a more complete picture of the ...
- AFRICOM and America's Global Military Agenda: Taking The Helm Of The Entire World 14 Nov 2009 03:36 GMT
... Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, the Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Yemen, the last on the ... other northern towns)... If oil is eventually discovered, that could of course play a role.” ... of the Chinese Army’s Academy of Military Sciences. That is, from an authority expected to ...
- Food Security in Region 'Within Reach' 14 Nov 2009 00:30 GMT
... 2050 are coastal Kenya, northeast and northwest Tanzania and central Uganda. Only by adapting its agricultural ... he says. In the worst-affected areas, the researchers recommend farmers keep more livestock (see Livestock ...
- Health Minister promises responsible action on AIDS 14 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
... transferred USD 336 million to Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Nigeria to pay for the provision ... a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of ...
- 'Killing' that sparked Velvet Revolution still a mystery - Feature 14 Nov 2009 06:31 GMT
... 23-year-old Prague resident. In a recently re- discovered video from the time, she offered a ... for a 16-day vacation in Kenya and Tanzania. His namesake in Prague is an econometrics researcher, a father of three and the frontman ...
- Dodoma oilseed farmers plan to increase ouput, incomes, quality 14 Nov 2009 06:52 GMT
... decided to set up the cluster after researchers, agricultural experts, politicians and development partners from ... crops cultivated by the rural population in Tanzania. It is also popular in Dodoma and Singida ...
- Researchers complete draft genome sequence for cassava 9 Nov 2009 18:14 GMT
... Biology (ILTAB) at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (DDPSC) in St. Louis, and Dr. ... by Fauquet, Tohme and 12 other international scientists to DOE JGI's Community Sequencing Program, which ... collaborate with researchers in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania in applying these genetic markers toward identifying ...
- Keystone Symposia: A better world through science 10 Nov 2009 13:33 GMT
... Symposia conference on TB and AIDS in Tanzania last month. While the organization does most ... internationally recognized organization that works to gather scientists, doctors and other researchers to talk about ... Symposia's simple stated mission is “Accelerating life science discovery.” Aiken expands on that by saying ...
- Using science to save lives of mothers and children in Africa 9 Nov 2009 18:33 GMT
... Using science to save lives of mothers and children ... lives, says the report, which calls on scientists, health care providers, policymakers, and development agencies ... of reduction in under-five mortality since 1990, Tanzania and Ghana have experienced up to 30 ...
- Kenyan Researcher Awarded for Efforts in Fighting Malaria 9 Nov 2009 01:34 GMT
... cure for malaria. Dr Okumu, a Kenyan researcher at the Tanzania-based Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) believes a breakthrough ... While more than a dozen other IHI scientists are currently working on mosquito-related projects, the ...
- Researcher Awarded for Efforts in Fighting Malaria 9 Nov 2009 07:56 GMT
... cure for malaria. Dr Okumu, a Kenyan researcher at the Tanzania-based Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) believes a breakthrough ... While more than a dozen other IHI scientists are currently working on mosquito-related projects, the ...
- Body Wants More Experts After Uranium Discovery 12 Nov 2009 11:57 GMT
... Tanzania's efforts to embrace nuclear technology may take ... because the country does not have nuclear scientists, according to the Tanzania Atomic Energy Commission ... had not been purposely trained in nuclear science. It would take at least 15 years ...
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