Christian Science Monitor
Can a 4000-mile wall of trees stop Sahara Desert's drift?
Christian Science Monitor
In February 2011, an international summit in Bonn, Germany officially approved the building of a pan-African Great Green Wall (GGW) in support of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). The initiative plans to strategically ...

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African breeding of native orphan crops emphasized
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Mars, Incorporated confirmed at an international conference that data being developed by the African Orphan Crop Consortium (AOCC) will be made publicly available so that scientists, plant breeders and farmers can more rapidly improve the nutrition of ...

AGRA, IITA Boost Nigeria, Ghana Capacity on Soil and Plant Analysis
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The Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and IITA has organised a two-week capacity development workshop for laboratory technologists from the national agricultural research systems of Ghana and Nigeria. The training aims to improve the ...

The Prophets of Oak Ridge
Washington Post
The science seems simple enough: When a neutron strikes the nucleus of a U-235 atom, the nucleus splits and releases thermal energy and more neutrons, which in turn strike and split more uranium nuclei, and on and on, in an instant, until . ... She ...

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ABC Science Online
Dinosaur ancestors out of ancient Africa
ABC Science Online
... freely' across Gondwana, Science Online, 11 Jun 2008. Proto-dinos Ten million years after the world's largest mass extinction, a lineage of animals thought to have led to dinosaurs took hold in what is now Tanzania and Zambia, according to new ...

Science Recorder
Plants provide some protection against climate change, according to study
Science Recorder
Scientists have discovered that plants help to slow climate change by emitting gases that form clouds, creating what amounts to a giant parasol, or sunshade, over the earth. The effect is small and results in a offset of about one percent of warming ...
Plants Lend Cooling Effect with Climbing Temperatures: ResearchNewsPoint Africa
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Science Recorder
Fossil discovery links dinosaur lineage to Africa
Science Recorder
According to a new study released in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science journal this week, a lineage of animals that likely led to the presence of dinosaurs has been discovered in Tanzania and Zambia. Scientists found evidence of the ...

New York Times
Alexander Graham Bell's Voice, Animals in Space and More
New York Times
But unlike the spacebound animals, which are expected to return alive, “the phones will re-enter the atmosphere, burning up in the process.” Field Research. Holding Science Captive. Sure, scientists are worried about the sequester, but some are at the ...

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Students plant seeds for Rainforest Conservation with RU Reforesting
Roosevelt Torch
RU Reforesting, a brand new student organization this semester at Roosevelt, jump-started from students' devotion to conservation and the environment and classes like Professor Norbert Cordeiro's Conservation Biology Africa 369. The group is raising ...

Mars, Incorporated & partners confirm that #genome data of #Africa's 'Orphan ...
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WASHINGTON, April 29, 2013 /3BL Media/PRNewswire/ -- Mars, Incorporated today confirmed that data being developed by the African Orphan Crop Consortium (AOCC) will be made publically available so that scientists, plant breeders and farmers can more ...

Mars, Incorporated And Partners Confirm That Genome Data Of Africa's 'Orphan ...
PR Newswire (press release)
WASHINGTON, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Mars, Incorporated today confirmed that data being developed by the African Orphan Crop Consortium (AOCC) will be made publically available so that scientists, plant breeders and farmers can more rapidly ...

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Ghana Business News
AGRA, IITA build capacity of partners in Ghana and Nigeria on soil and plant ...
Africa Science News Service
Written by Adeleke Mainasara. The Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and IITA organized a two-week capacity development workshop for laboratory technologists from the national agricultural research systems of Ghana and Nigeria. The training ...
AGRA, IITA build capacity of Ghana and Nigeria scientists on soil, plant analysisGhana Business News

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NewsPoint Africa
Plants Lend Cooling Effect with Climbing Temperatures: Research
NewsPoint Africa
The research hails that the plants rule the global warming measures that tend to prevent any rise in temperature. A team of researchers from IIASA and the University of Helsinki has recognized that plants exude gases that aid in forming clouds and ...

The good and dark side of synthetic nitrogen
San Antonio Express
Famed Texas A&M scientist Norman Borlaug led the “Green Revolution,” credited with saving as many as 1 billion people from starvation by increasing crop yields through a number of mechanisms. ... FILE - In this June 17, 2010 file photo, former South ...

New York Times
Venture Capitalists Are Making Bigger Bets on Food Start-Ups
New York Times
“Part of the reason you're seeing all these V.C.'s get interested in this is the food industry is not only is it massive, but like the energy industry, it is terribly broken in terms of its impact on the environment, health, animals,” said Josh Tetrick ...

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ABC Science Online
Plant gas 'sunshade' slows warming
ABC Science Online
While the effects of plant gas emissions is small on a global scale, the findings will help scientists refine climate models. "It's a small effect -- one per cent is not much," says lead author Pauli Paasonen from the University of Helsinki and the ...

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WND.com
US prepares for casualties in Africa
WND.com
While the Pentagon's reliance on private vendors to support international military operations is nothing new, plans to station such providers specific to such a large swath of Africa does deviate from prior procurement actions. The Trans-Sahara ... The ...

Centre Daily Times
Focus on Research | PSU professor pairs local, international park research
Centre Daily Times
But, with a little bit of patience, it didn't take long before the group at University Park got to ask their peers on another continent about their conservation work and research with the community in the Wild Coast region of the Eastern Cape Province ...

Plants help slow warming – but there's a trade-off
New Scientist
The fragrant smell of the trees is one of the nicest things about taking a walk in the woods. ... Pauli Paasonen at the University of Helsinki in Finland and colleagues set up monitoring stations in 11 forests in Europe, North America, South Africa and ...

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Ghana Business News
AGRA, IITA build capacity of Ghana and Nigeria scientists on soil, plant analysis
Ghana Business News
The Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) have organised a capacity building workshop for laboratory technologists from the national agricultural research systems of Ghana and Nigeria.

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