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COVID-19, climate change demonstrate excellence of Africa’s scientists

COVID-19, climate change demonstrate excellence of Africa’s scientists

When Nigeria discovered its first coronavirus patient – an Italian citizen who works in the country – public health officials weren’t the only ones who responded quickly. So did a group of scientists and researchers who got to work and sequenced the genome of the COVID-19 virus found in the…

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Africa’s scientists warn of dire impacts to ‘carbon sink’ forests

Africa’s scientists warn of dire impacts to ‘carbon sink’ forests

Scientists from Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania, working alongside dozens of global colleagues, warn that the earth’s tropical forests are losing their ability to serve as “carbon sinks” and remove global emissions from the atmosphere. Their study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, looked at data from 300,000…

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Cameroon to restore 12 million hectares of Congo Basin rainforest

Cameroon to restore 12 million hectares of Congo Basin rainforest

Cameroon has committed to restoring over 12 million hectares of deforested and degraded land by 2030 as part of the Bonn Challenge initiative, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced. The initiative is a global effort to restore 150 million hectares by 2020, and more than…

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