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A South African team had a rare chance to capture information about Pluto’s atmosphere.
Baobabs have been a source of food, fibre and medicine in Africa for centuries.
The drought is driven by El Niño, an unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean that shifts weather patterns.
Climate and weather play a large role in people’s leisure travel decisions.
Echoes of Southern African Independence is an audio archive project that brings history alive in a fresh and unique way.
The first International Astronomical Union General Assembly was held just over 100 years ago, in Rome, Italy.
New research provides the foundation for larger, regional-scale analyses of early human adaptive strategies in the Namib Sand Sea, Namibia.
While teachers were employing the right strategies, they were not giving targeted attention to the non-readers in their classes.
The southern African wildlife economy is socially and environmentally unsustainable.
In Namibia it’s a criminal offence for men to have sex with men – but the high court has overturned this as unconstitutional. The state will no doubt appeal.
Africa hosts substantial reserves of critical minerals.
Katherine Browne and Margaret Angula talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about a UN pilot in Namibia that’s pioneering community-led climate adaptation.
The strategy aims to conserve biodiversity while also contributing to the creation of jobs and economic growth.
There are several reasons why ethical conduct in scientific research is so important.
Hage Geingob’s legacy as a moderniser will live on despite contradictions and unfulfilled promises.
The teachers did not often adapt their practices to suit their specific cultural and linguistic contexts.
To fight global warming we will soon have to try to remove carbon dioxide from the skies or find ways to reflect the Sun’s heat. Such radical paths must be examined, but risky experiments avoided.
Anna “Kakurukaze” Mungunda became the most widely acknowledged face of the resistance to the apartheid policy of forced removal.
Fewer than a quarter of once-colonized countries make official government-to-government requests for an apology or reparations.
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