The Ruki River supplies dissolved carbon from forest vegetation and soils to the Congo River.
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The emergence of a pan-African voice in the fight against global warming, a global issue, could enable the African Union to regain ground on the international stage.
The restitution of looted objects from former colonies in Africa is an essential component of post-colonial reparation.
The Angolan Highlands are hydrologically and ecologically important - and the region’s newly mapped peatlands are valuable “carbon sinks”.
In Africa, French will only continue to embed itself - if speaking it is in the interests of Africans and not attached to French foreign policy interests.
Les textes littéraires peuvent mis à contribution pour la communication environnementale car ils sont en mesure de représenter la complexité du changement climatique.
Literary texts are useful for environmental communication and can deal with the complexity of climate change.
Many of Africa’s forests are unknown to the public at large, yet so fascinating and important.
Pour être efficaces, les formules vaccinales doivent couvrir toutes les souches émergentes, mais il subsiste beaucoup inconnues.
To be effective, vaccine formulas need to cover all emergent strains. But there are still plenty of unknowns.
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Saving African forests is a global concern and needs prioritisation.
But with chimps now endangered, we risk losing their forest-rebuilding abilities.
Forests must improve communities’ livelihoods to rise as a sustainable management solution
Scientists are trying to figure out what risks changes in Lake Chad’s levels pose to people in the region.
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The audio version of a long read on the historical mistakes and cover ups that hampered the response to the devastating Ebola outbreak of 2014.
A disease suspected to be monkeypox is on the rampage in Nigeria. In less than one month, it has spread to seven of the country’s 36 states and infected 31 people.
There are rising concerns that rapid deforestation across the Amazon and Southeast Asia could spread to Africa. The continent hasn’t yet seen vast agricultural expansion but it could be on the way.
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Expert in Environmental Humanities, Sustainability Science, Foresight and Futures Studies, University of Cologne
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Director General, Centre for International Forestry Research
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PhD candidate, Earth System Science, Stanford University
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Principal Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Professor of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University
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CGIAR System Organization
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Associate Researcher, Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group, University of Cambridge
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Principal Investigator based at Centre for Research on Emerging and Re-Emerging Diseases (CREMER), Sub-Saharan African Network for TB/HIV Research Excellence (SANTHE)
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Professor of Modern Languages and Culture , University of Warwick
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PhD student, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
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Lecturer International Relations, African Politics, Regional Integration in Africa, and International Economics, Institut catholique de Lille (ICL)
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Research Technician, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Lecturer, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Lancaster University
