Articles tagged "Africa"

This solar plant will run 10% of Mauritania.

The country is joining the increasing ranks of high-tech fisheries to use tracking systems to help ensure its fish stocks are sustainably harvested.

Following a bit of good news for elephants yesterday, here comes another heaping dose of the bad new we've come to expect.

Where roads end, delivering medical assistance gets a whole lot harder.

Can pee really replace gasoline?

Here's a warm blanket for you to nestle into this weekend. The Washington Post has been running an investigative report on the U.S. military's shadow wars throughout the Horn of Africa. These special operations have become the preserve of hulking, so…

By tracking the movements of cell phone users in Kenya for nearly one year, between 2008 and 2009, scientists fleshed out travel patterns of a disease that killed about 665,000 people the following year – "mostly in Africa":http://www.who.int/mediace…

That Nintendo Wii you got for your birthday sure is fun. But it's also built with the spoils of one of the deadliest wars the world has ever seen. Historically, "conflict minerals" like coltan, tin, tantalum and tungsten, which are pulled from mines

Climate change is so unfair to us. It already contributes massively to global food insecurity with "killer droughts":http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/01/the-role-of-drought-in-the-horn-of-africa-famine/, "awful floods":http://www.washingtonpost.c…

Isn't it wonderful that astronauts these days seem to always have a camera handy? This particular pass was taken over central Africa, from southeast Niger to the South Indian Ocean, southeast of Madagascar. Not only does it come complete with lightni…

When you think “countries on the cutting edge of deep space exploration,” Kenya is not usually the first that jumps to mind. But here in east Africa, there is a scientist/space pioneer by the name of Dr. Paul Baki who sees big things for the future o…

Apple and other famous technology companies and their millions of customers don't have blood on their hands. Well, maybe. After reading a piece by Nick Kristof in the Times last year - ""Death by Gadget"":http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/opinion…

Digital filesharing doesn't need the internet. This is the case at least in Western Africa and other parts of the developing world, where computers aren't yet consumer goods for most and, even if they were, web access isn't exactly New York City. Lo…

Give your phone a really good smashing against the nearest wall and you'll get a little closer to one of the tech industry's bloody little secrets.

_Somewhere soon the world's most expensive money shot will be filmed_ h3. ONE: "Using stem cells, artificial sperm has been created":http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8682142/Stem-cells-used-to-make-artificial-sperm.html (Telegraph)

In a sign of Bill Gates' determination to eradicate disease and the power of philanthropy to fill the gaps left by cash-strapped countries, the Gates Foundation has said it was giving $1 billion to vaccine distribution at the first annual Global Alli…

While Nigeria's 401 scammers may have written the book on West African internet fraud, their shtick looks like Compuserve compared to what's going on in Ghana. Unsatisfied with the meager winnings from emailing thousands of random Westerners in hopes…