‘Act now’ to save Brazil’s rivers, avoid water crisis
Water demand will continue to increase as its quality goes lower, espacially because of vegetation losses.
Climate change to alter Africa’s malaria map by 2100
An hydrological model reveals new zones where malaria may develop due to climate change.
Keep focus on emerging infections
Research funding for emerging infectious diseases rarely reaches the countries where such diseases do the most harm.
Burkina Faso reaches a milestone in the conquest of space
The reception of a satellite ground receiving station prefigures the mastery of space techniques for Earth observation.
Research, innovation vital in new COVID-19 world
In an interconnected world, with pandemic or climate change, development funding must also go to research.
Malaria: Artemisinin resistance emerges in Africa
Locally emerging resistance to treatment is major health threat in sub-saharan Africa.
Climate change to steepen food prices
An example of a worsening retroaction between two SDGs : climate action (SDG13) and zero hunger (SDG2).
Robot hikes the Andes to cross Peru’s digital divide
In remote villages of the Peruvian Andes, a robot has taken over the classrooms.
Cameroon on the verge of destroying a unique ecosystem
The Cameroonian government has decided to create logging concessions in a biodiversity sanctuary.
Maize gene could lure natural enemies of crop pests
Scientists have identified genes in local maize varieties that can fight off stemborers by summoning their natural enemies, raising hopes for pest-resistant varieties for African smallholders.
