The months of September to May are an unfortunate season in South Africa: malaria season. The mosquito-borne disease is found in the north-eastern districts of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces. There are fewer malaria cases in South…
19/08/2024 The Conversation
It was the midst of a July heatwave, with humidity sticky in the air. Phoebe Saldana sat in the colorful plaza of her East Harlem housing complex, watching her two young daughters ride scooters and climb on workout equipment.
13/08/2024 The Guardian
Access to safe drinking water — and its equitable distribution — underpins public health. But for the estimated 250,000 people in Kibera, who live without any government infrastructure, clean water is often a luxury. A system that uses aerial pipes…
13/08/2024 Undark Magazine
Wastewater, which is full of pollutants that contain nitrogen, can be directly fed into a new chemical reactor that converts it into ammonia, with purified water and oxygen as by-products
12/08/2024 NewScientist
José de Souza Nogueira is 63 and says he has had malaria more than 130 times. It is an exceptionally high number, even for a country like Brazil, where the mosquito-borne disease is endemic.
12/08/2024 The Guardian
As Paris shines under the global spotlight of the Olympic Games, technological innovations are enabling people with visual impairments to take it in
10/08/2024 The Independent
Bacteria and fungi are evolving to eat plastic but their impact will likely be limited to specific applications, researchers say
09/08/2024 The Independent
Nissan has launched a paint that reportedly keeps cars cooler by upto 12C as sweltering temperatures become the norm across the world.
07/08/2024 The Independent
Germany's capital has a problem with rising temperatures and drought. So the city has come up with solutions for how to collect and store rainwater by turning Berlin into a sponge city.
06/08/2024 Deutsche Welle
Most antibiotics are natural products of bacteria and other microorganisms from the environment. They are part of a silent chemical warfare among microorganisms in soils, rivers and seas right now.
02/08/2024 The Conversation
