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Scientists with the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) Image Science & Analysis Laboratory (ISAL), in Houston, Texas, have just compiled this incredible video from photos taken from aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
The images were collected between 20:55:05 to 21:14:09 GMT, on December 29, 2011, as the orb... |
19 January 2012
11:10 GMT |
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Green technologies often go hand in hand with charity. A recent partnership established between Eight19 and nonprofit SolarAid will give the green light to a pay-as-you-go system in Eastern Africa, helping people protect their health by staying away from those awful, hazardous kerosene lamps.
The unit comes with a ... |
17 January 2012
03:59 GMT |
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Education is the first step towards progress, in every field of activity. Computer Aid is well aware of this; therefore, it plans to offer unprivileged children from African villages free access to computing rooms.
So far, the British organization has succeeded in sending eight solar-powered Internet cafes called Zu... |
28 December 2011
04:44 GMT |
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Experts are one step closer to the enigmatic, endangered wild pygmy hippopotamus, due to a film shot in Sapo National Park.
Biologists have put all their hopes in this first footage of the nocturnal “secretive” pygmy hippo, hoping it will help them understand better the behavior, distribution and evolu... |
20 December 2011
08:52 GMT |
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Poverty, lack of resources and technology correlated with climate change effects like prolonged drought or extreme weather is lowering the quality of already low-value crops obtained by local communities in sub-Saharan Africa.
Stanford's Center on Food Security and Environment Works in partnership with Solar E... |
8 December 2011
10:45 GMT |
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There is a limited number of wishes modern technology can't fulfill. Experts from New York city based-Ground Lab manufacture a hi-tech collar for lions and cattle in Kenya that will help biologists track the animals faster than ever before. This initiative comes as an effective way of putting an end to the num... |
23 November 2011
08:23 GMT |
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According to a new image collected by the American space agency's Earth Observation-1 (EO-1) satellite, the Nyamuragira volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has sprung into action yet again. A new eruption began unfolding on November 6.
Fortunately, the lava masses currently making their way throu... |
17 November 2011
04:46 GMT |
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At this point, the population of most African countries is growing out of control. Most people realize that the already-present lack of resources that they are enduring will only prevail in the future. This rise in population will force the infrastructure of major cities to cope or be destroyed. Providing shelter and... |
24 October 2011
03:45 GMT |
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Scientists from NASA made sure that public opinion is aware of the devastating impact hundreds of fires had upon the environment over the last decade. Its strategy was to release videos which present images of the most significant fire incidents, captured by satellites, aircraft or provided by ground resources. It ... |
21 October 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Throughout large parts of West Africa, rainforests are being cut down for a variety of reasons, primarily to make way for crops or grazing animals. However, this phenomenon is causing surviving rainforests to receive only about half of the usual amount of rain.
Details of the study appear in a paper entitled &ldq... |
19 September 2011
18:01 GMT |
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The drought conditions affecting northeast Africa are so intense that the United Nations have declared a famine in the area. More than 11.5 million people in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti are affected by the worse drought to hit the area in several decades.Experts with the US Department of State (DoS) say tha... |
4 August 2011
05:02 GMT |
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The results of a new genetic analysis show that people living outside of Africa all carry genetic materials from Neanderthals, the species of hominids Homo sapiens had to compete with in order to ensure dominance all over the world. This fight raged between 40,000 and 30,000 years ago, although no one can say for sur... |
18 July 2011
10:59 GMT |
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The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) has recently launched a new campaign, that seeks to improve the amounts and quality of rice being harvested on the Old Continent. Eight countries have signed to join the initiative thus far, and others may do the same too. The main goal of this one-of-a-kind project is to enhance t... |
20 June 2011
02:59 GMT |
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One of the most prolific satellites in orbit managed to snap a new image of a portion of the planet containing a piece of North Africa and Western Europe. The view shows huge clouds of sand being channeled over the Atlantic, while the others are in full bloom from phytoplankton.The latter are microorganisms that repr... |
15 April 2011
09:45 GMT |
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Though many experts agree that modern humans originated in eastern Africa, the conclusions of a new, large investigation on genetic variations seem to indicate a different story, in which our ancestors in fact came from southern Africa. Scientists conducted the new research on remnants of African hunter-gatherer popu... |
8 March 2011
09:32 GMT |
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The seed of a new ocean on Earth has been planted less than 6 years ago, experts say. The body of water will develop along the East African Rift, and is the direct consequence of a massive volcanic eruption that took place in Ethiopia in 2005. In just a matter of days – a blink of an eye in geological terms &nd... |
3 March 2011
05:11 GMT |
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While digging in central Israel, at a cave near a site called Rosh Haain, researchers discovered no less than eight small teeth. Subsequent analysis revealed that they belonged to humans, and so this finding is starting to bring into question the origins of the first humans, as well as the time when they appeared.Ant... |
9 February 2011
11:20 GMT |
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New discoveries related to the route taken by our Stone Age ancestors to leave Africa reveal that they also traveled through Arabia, rather than through the near and middle East, as originally discovered.The thing that makes these findings so important is that they push back the date of the first substantial human mi... |
28 January 2011
04:21 GMT |
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The most recent discoveries made in one of the most famous deserts in the world show that fish swam there in ancient times. The finding may hold additional pieces in the puzzle that seeks to explain how and why early humans emigrated out of Africa during the great migrations.One of the most important questions that r... |
29 December 2010
10:29 GMT |
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The warm oceanic Agulhas Return Current (ARC), which is located southeast of South Africa, is now the target of a new climate investigation carried out by American researchers at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).This research is conducted so that researchers can get a clearer picture of t... |
15 December 2010
07:00 GMT |
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Apple is helping promote World AIDS Day via a new web page bearing the message “The AIDS free generation is due in 2015,” written in red capitol letters. To support the move, Apple has been selling (PRODUCT) RED iPods. The company links to Facebook, Twitter, foursquare, and Meetup - services which also su... |
2 December 2010
03:16 GMT |
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A mineralogical and chemical analysis of the 'terra rosa' soil in the Mediterranean, carried out by Spanish and American researchers, revealed that the mineral red dust came from Sahara and Sahel, in Africa.These two African regions emit 600-700 tonnes of dust every year, and this is what colored the soil i... |
12 November 2010
08:16 GMT |
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Even though you would expect desert sands to move constantly under the wind, it appears that those in the Namib Sand Sea in Africa, have been there for the past million years, or at least this is the conclusion drawn by researcher Pieter Vermeesch, a geologist at the University of London, and his colleagues.Hoping to... |
2 November 2010
09:42 GMT |
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Today, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced the launch of its Ovi Life Tools service on the market in Nigeria, the largest mobile market in Africa, and also one of Africa's fastest growing economies. According to Nokia, the Ovi Life Tools services already proved successful in markets like Indonesia, India... |
2 November 2010
07:19 GMT |
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A technique for creating spearheads that was previously believed to be only 20,000 years old was in a new study demonstrated to have existed at least 75,000 years ago in southern Africa. Early humans living in the area were capable of creating thin, sharp spearheads out of heated stone a long time before researchers ... |
29 October 2010
14:01 GMT |
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According to a new set of investigations, it would appear that the origins of all primate species are not necessarily in Africa, but rather in the Middle East, in regions around Libya. This conclusion comes from a series of archaeological digs, which revealed the existence of no less then four primates that lived in ... |
28 October 2010
09:06 GMT |
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Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is one of the American medical schools and universities part of a program that invests $130 million over a five-year period for the transformation of the African medical education and the rise of the numbers of health workers.The program is called the Medical Educat... |
14 October 2010
10:11 GMT |
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When thinking of Africa, and of the wild, hyenas and lions are among the first images to spring to mind. But what few people wonder is why hyenas only exist in Africa, and not in Europe or the Americas. Now, a team of investigators announces the results of a research study that was conducted on this issue. The group ... |
24 September 2010
04:30 GMT |
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South Africa is on track to get Apple’s iPhone 4 even earlier than China, despite an official announcement from Apple saying the next iPhone 4 launch will occur in the Asian territory.A report by Fin24.com claims that the iPhone 4 will be launched in South Africa on Wednesday, and that it will be carried ... |
21 September 2010
07:43 GMT |
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Belief in magic is widespread mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and more that half of the respondents said they personally believe in witchcraft, found a new Gallup poll.For most educated people, witchcraft is a ridiculous concept and believing in magic is at most for small children to whom bedtime stories are read.Well, ... |
30 August 2010
11:05 GMT |
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Man has done it again! The Lycaon pictus or African Wild Dog and the Acinonyx jubatus or Cheetah are functionally extirpated in North Cameroon. As for lions, the spotted hyena, the stripped hyena or leopards, they are very rare and survive in small groups.A research program carried out by the Institute of Environment... |
26 July 2010
09:03 GMT |
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According to a new report, it would appear that the African continent is capable of accommodating large swaths of land containing bioenergy production-related plans. This can be achieved without diminishing, or otherwise affecting, the areas already planted with edible crops, or natural reserves. The conclusions belo... |
23 July 2010
11:07 GMT |
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Internet users in Southern and Eastern Africa have been experiencing problems for the past couple of days due to an undersea cable failure. The Seacom cable that links that part of Africa to Europe and Asia has been hit by a fault, possibly off the coast of Kenya. Repairs may take at least a week, but the Seacom Comp... |
7 July 2010
08:44 GMT |
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In a paper published yesterday, May 16, scientists report record-high temperatures inside the world's second-deepest and second-oldest static body of water, Lake Tanganyika. Located in the eastern part of Africa, in the Great Rift Valley, the lake apparently experiences unprecedented warming, which places its cu... |
17 May 2010
05:18 GMT |
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Anthropologists and paleontologists are currently puzzled over the discovery of a new primate fossil, which apparently does not fit neatly into the evolutionary tree researchers created thus far. The animal exhibits peculiarities that make it somewhat of a black sheep among other primates. The feature that stands out... |
11 May 2010
05:18 GMT |
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Our earliest ancestors, the ancient hominids, are known for their affinity to trees. They spent much of their lives in the canopies of forests in the land that is now Tanzania, Africa, and only descended on the ground occasionally. However, when they did, they appeared to have extended their legs in very much the sam... |
24 March 2010
05:23 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) announces that it has finished the selection process for twenty projects that will be included in the TIGER II initiative. As part of the program, these projects will receive support from the agency's Earth-observation technologies, to help the people running them get a better ide... |
23 March 2010
05:57 GMT |
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Scientists announce the possible discovery of a new gigantic impact crater in the central parts of Africa, more precisely in DR Congo. The massive deforestation currently taking place in this country is uncovering what looks like a massive ring in the ground, researchers report. Thus far, observing the feature from s... |
10 March 2010
16:01 GMT |
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Scientists have recently discovered that a fearsome crocodile might have been one of the predators feasting on ancient humans. In those times, when our ancestors were trying to make a life for themselves in Africa, the animals they chased often had a mind of not being eaten. Rather, they preferred eating the humans i... |
24 February 2010
17:01 GMT |
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Google's Maps is one of Google's oldest products and certainly one of the most known. It's been around for years and in some places, the information it provides is extensive. But the world is, well, a big place and there are plenty or countries and regions where mapping data in Google Maps is lacking, ... |
19 February 2010
10:02 GMT |
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At the end of the past year, Microsoft launched a new edition of Office 2007 targeted at markets on the African continent. The Office 2007 Home and Student for Africa SKU comes with a discounted price of approximately 39 Euro or $53, namely the equivalent of 3,999 Kenyan Shillings. According to the Redmond company, t... |
18 February 2010
10:22 GMT |
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One of the hallmarks of capitalism is something proponents like to call a “free market.” Basically, this means that the market regulates itself based on supply and demand, and this approach to conducting business is usually cited as the most appropriate for most cases. However, it is extremely unfair, esp... |
16 February 2010
03:56 GMT |
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New evidence seems to attest the belief that early hominids, such as Homo erectus, might have left Africa on rafts, hundreds of thousands of years ago. Experts suggest that stone hand axes found in the Mediterranean Basin, and on the island of Crete, might have been used by these people to construct rafts and other t... |
11 January 2010
06:45 GMT |
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People living in Western, more developed societies tend to be more aware of the environment. This is something that has been proven over and over again throughout the past few years, and the concern stems from the fact that it's a lot easier to care for anything with a full stomach. Companies and businesses in t... |
5 January 2010
08:51 GMT |
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An international group of scientists has recently shed some light on one of the most controversial issues related to human evolution, namely how the Asian continent was first populated. Using a wide array of genomes from across the continent, the team was able to map them out completely, and to determine that they al... |
11 December 2009
15:01 GMT |
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A British researcher was just minding his own businesses in the jungle, surveying monkeys, when he accidentally disturbed a snake that was eating its meal. Upon inspecting the catch, the expert discovered a chameleon unlike any other species he knew. He therefore went ahead and compared the specimen to two others his... |
23 November 2009
18:01 GMT |
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A recent estimation published by Frost & Sullivan and Colibria shows that the mobile social networking is expected to register a great increase in Latin America and Africa within the following several years. By 2015, the area should have a number of around 527 million users, marking a ten-fold increase compared to t... |
19 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Our ability to recognize shapes and patterns is something that scientists believe was an acquired trait, spawned from the environment in which a new individual was born. But a new scientific study, published this week in the online issue of the journal Psychological Science, seems to show that people have a sense... |
14 November 2009
03:49 GMT |
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According to current knowledge, our ancestors first appeared in eastern Africa, where the oldest, human-like fossils were found. They are believed to have then left the continent in successive migrations, eventually spreading across the planet and beginning their domination of the world. However, historians and paleo... |
10 November 2009
04:57 GMT |
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A rift in eastern Africa is most likely the place where a new ocean will begin to take shape in the future, scientists confirm after serious investigations. The formation started “unzipping” in 2005, when it reached its current length, of about 35 miles, within only a few days. The rip began when the Dabb... |
3 November 2009
04:49 GMT |
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