Items tagged with africa

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The Melting Snows of Kilimanjaro Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 - 16:05:45 - Ehud Rattner Glaciers crowning Africa's tallest mountain could disappear within decades. The snows of Kilimanjaro are rapidly disappearing and will be gone by... read more

Giant Stone-Age Axes Found in African Lake Monday, September 14th, 2009 - 14:01:43 - Ehud Rattner A giant African lake basin is providing information about possible migration routes and hunting practices of early humans in the Middle and Late... read more

Great Whites 'Plan' Seal Attacks Monday, June 22nd, 2009 - 19:36:35 - Ehud Rattner Great white sharks do not aimlessly wander the ocean waiting to stumble upon their next meal. Instead, the biggest sharks identify a location from... read more

Averting a Climate-Led Food Crisis in Africa Monday, June 22nd, 2009 - 09:50:19 - Ehud Rattner A study to be published in the journal Global Environmental Change, found that by 2050, most African countries will experience temperatures they have... read more

10-Year Study of African Genetic Data Friday, May 1st, 2009 - 18:14:06 - Anuradha Menon African, American, and European researchers working in a 10-year collaboration have released the largest-ever study of African genetic data — more... read more

Halting the African Armyworm Sunday, February 1st, 2009 - 15:53:27 - Ehud Rattner A plague of crop-eating caterpillars has struck Liberia and a second wave could spread across West Africa in the next few weeks, the Food and... read more

Earliest Evidence of Cave-Dwelling Ancestors Sunday, December 21st, 2008 - 09:54:09 - Ehud Rattner A research team led by Professor Michael Chazan, director of the University of Toronto's Archaeology Center, has discovered the earliest evidence of... read more

Small Asteroid to Light Up Sky Over Africa Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 - 10:38:34 - Anuradha Menon An asteroid measuring several feet in diameter is expected to enter the atmosphere over northern Sudan before dawn Tuesday, setting off a potentially... read more

Tracing Humanity's Path Saturday, May 24th, 2008 - 14:43:53 - Ehud Rattner Most researchers agree that modern humans got their start in Africa and then spread throughout the world beginning about 50,000 years ago. But... read more

Humanity Was Divided for 100,000 Years Friday, May 16th, 2008 - 12:38:15 - Ehud Rattner The human race was divided into two separate groups within Africa for as much as half of its existence, says a Tel Aviv University mathematician... read more

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