[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Conservationists are raising alarm over an attempt by Parliament to repeal a section of Forest Conservation and Management Act (2016).
[Daily Maverick] A family's outing to the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in KwaZulu-Natal turned into a nightmare when a bull elephant charged, battered and then overturned their vehicle at the weekend.
[The Conversation Africa] The lakes of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) play a big part in people's lives - socially, politically and economically. But lake fishing communities find themselves at the intersection of geography, war...
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] As the U.N. biodiversity conference approaches, efforts to ensure effective nature protection must include indigenous people and local communities
[New Republic] The Liberia Forest Media Watch (LFMW) says they will be more forceful in the discharge of their forest monitoring and reporting this 2021.
[This Day] The Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS), has once again warn that Donkey Hide remains on the Export Prohibition List in the country.
[The Conversation Africa] Every month, Facebook attracts 2.89 billion active users. Every minute there are hundreds of thousands of comments and status updates. Each could be discussing anything, including extremist views, or the sale of...
[RFI] Heard of the honeyguide, the charismatic sparrow-sized bird with a white ear patch and a pink bill that leads people in parts of Africa to honey?
[AIM] A lion has been spotted in the Zinave National Park, in the southern province of Inhambane, for the first time in several decades, according to a press release from the South African-based Peace Parks Foundation.
[Seychelles News Agency] A group of local researchers has partnered with Germany-based Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour to track sooty terns' movements by satellite.
[The Herald] A self-styled snake charmer from Dema in Chitungwiza was last week ordered to perform 105 hours of unpaid work after he was found guilty of possessing black cobras and green mamba he was selling in Chitungwiza.
[The Conversation Africa] Many South Africans will be familiar with bushbabies - or, at least, with their distinctive call. The small animal, more formally known as the thick-tailed greater galago, takes its common name from that call;...
A suite of plant and animal fossils from a site in New South Wales date back about 16 million years to a time when the region was blanketed in lush rainforests
Artificial intelligence’s lack of transparency is leading many to fear the technology and others to elevate it to a mysterious god-like figure, but we should be more critical of those making decisions about how AI is used, says...
The second largest bitcoin mining nation in the world has cut off internet access, slashing the amount of computing power dedicated to the cryptocurrency
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The mRNA technology used in some coronavirus vaccines is expected to have many other uses, including temporarily reprogramming heart cells to remove scarring
The omicron variant infects cells in a different way, is present in higher levels in saliva and seems more likely to cause asymptomatic infections - all findings that could help explain why omicron is spreading so rapidly but resulting...
An evergreen tree native to Cameroon’s tropical Ebo forest has been given the scientific name Uvariopsis dicaprio and is the first new plant species to be described in 2022
A US study of older women finds that those who perform well on physical tests have the best chances of living longer, while weight loss may not be beneficial
A US and Canadian team have estimated 1.85 million new childhood asthma cases were linked with exposure to nitrogen dioxide in 2019, 8.5 per cent of all new cases that year.
Purple-crowned fairywrens are more flexible in their breeding behaviour than we thought, which has helped the bird population to grow in one wildlife sanctuary in Western Australia
The simultaneous occurence of extreme levels of ozone and particulate matter have increased significantly in the past decade due to wildfires in the western US
We typically try to make sense of paradoxes using cold logic. But if we ask what they tell us about human intuition, we can improve the way we understand the world around us, says philosopher Margaret Cuonzo
Since its rebrand as “Meta”, Facebook has been throwing its considerable weight behind the idea of an immersive virtual reality world. Here’s everything you need to know
Why the inventor of a futuristic beauty product was banned from Instagram, plus affirming birds’ existence and falling toast, in Feedback’s weekly round-up
A strain of the antibiotic-resistant bacterium MRSA seems to have colonised the skin of hedgehogs more than 200 years ago – and many other similarly evasive bugs might exist in nature
Figures gathered by New Scientist show that UK police forces have seized bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies worth more than £300 million during criminal investigations.
[New Zimbabwe] A MOTHER (22) and her six-month-old baby was trampled to death by a stray elephant on New Year's Day in Kushinga B village under Chief Musikavanhu, Chipinge.
What will it take to bring the pandemic under control? Vaccine equality, social measures and supporting the health workforce, says the head of the World Health Organization