tag: africa

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Africa on the Auction Block
Millions of acres of fertile farmland in the developing world are being sold or leased to outside powers, raising the spectre of a new era of agricultural colonialism
Comments (1) | August 26, 2009
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Poet Alison Hawthorne Deming on What Nature Teaches -- If We Listen

Comments (1) | August 16, 2008
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Child Labor + Mercury = Gold?

Comments (1) | August 15, 2008
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We Don’t Care About the World’s Poor, Do We?

Comments (2) | August 8, 2008
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Gorilla Bonanza!

Comments (1) | August 5, 2008
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Ticked Off: Climate Change and the Spread of Infectious Disease

Comments (3) | May 30, 2008
open space

Brief Encounter On The Savanna
On the African savanna, one woman goes eyeball-to-eyeball with a curious bull elephant and wonders at the earth's endless varieties of self-expression.
Comments (0) | May 28, 2008
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Battling Malaria with Bed Nets

Comments (0) | February 3, 2008
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Kenya Dispatch

Comments (0) | January 24, 2008
short takes

Scaling the Heights
Climate change holds the potential to profoundly affect epidemiologic patterns, and vector biologist Andrew Githeko says malaria is particularly sensitive to this upheaval.
Comments (1) | December 1, 2007