This was an area in which early anatomically modern humans survived, evolved and thrived, before spreading out of Africa to other continents.
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Aquifers are highly prevalent across Africa – but they’re not always going to be usable.
It hasn’t been clear how common the species was on the Cape south coast because its body fossils are predominantly from southern Africa’s west coast.
Studying fossil dung offers another avenue for scientists trying to recreate ancient landscapes.
By adapting and applying existing policies, South Africa can protect and restore its critical ‘blue carbon’ sinks.
Mangroves support a significant amount of biodiversity and their soils can capture a great deal of carbon.
Track marks are a way to fill in the blanks that sometimes exist in the body fossil record.
Without intervention, the rock may have been destroyed by high tides and storm surges.
The fossilised seal traces date back about 75,000 years.
Avoiding trite moralisations, Professor Southall uses empirical research to shed light on white South Africans’ adjustment to democracy.
While crocodiles are not native to Canada, fossil traces have been found in northern British Columbia that indicate that during the Cretaceous Period, giant crocodiles roamed.
There is something near-miraculous in the concept of tiny creatures, weighing just grams, making tracks and traces so long ago, that are now evident in rock.
Pour certains pays, notamment en Afrique, gérer ces espaces, immenses et souvent isolés, se révèle être illusoire tant leurs moyens budgétaires et humains sont structurellement insuffisants.
Doctors and nurses fear arrests and being charged with culpable homicide even for minor mistakes.
The study indicates that social media platforms are central to how young adults make sense of COVID-19 news and messages.
Human tracks registered in aeolianites - cemented dune surfaces - are rare at a global level.
For rhino specialists, translocation has been one of the most important tools in the conservation box of tricks.
Prix Nobel de la Paix 1993 avec Nelson Mandela pour sa participation à la dissolution de l’apartheid, Frédérik De Klerk n’a jamais cessé d’entretenir le flou sur sa position vis-à-vis de ce régime.
FW de Klerk as National Party conservative was paradoxically the right leader at the right time to relinquish white minority rule.
The 2021 local government elections signals widespread disillusionment with representative democracy that only a sea change in service delivery can fix.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nelson Mandela University. General Secretary, Climate Justice Coalition, Nelson Mandela University
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Senior lecturer in Languages and Literature, Nelson Mandela University
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Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
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Associate Professor, Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy (CANRAD), Nelson Mandela University
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Freelance conservation ecologist, Nelson Mandela University
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Senior lecturer, Nelson Mandela University
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Adjunct Professor in the Department of Criminal and Procedural Law, Nelson Mandela University
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Directeur de recherche CNRS / IRL REHABS, écologie des savanes tropicales, Nelson Mandela University
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Research Associate, Institute of Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University
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Senior Research Fellow, Nelson Mandela University
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Adjunct Professor of Marine Biology, Nelson Mandela University
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Lecturer, Nelson Mandela University
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Associate professor of logistics, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor, Nelson Mandela University
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Senior Lecturer in Industrial and Organisational Psychology, Nelson Mandela University
