Africa

The Forgotten Creatures Who Ruled Before the “Great Death”

Avi Blizovsky
August 26, 2025
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Researchers have uncovered in "Southern Pangaea" (now the southern part of Africa) fossils of creatures that lived shortly before the event known as the "Great Dying," which wiped out about 70% of terrestrial species and an even larger proportion of species

The Jaco Parrot: The Wisdom That Made Him a Victim

Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
July 19, 2025

The gecko is one of the most intelligent creatures in nature – and that is precisely what makes it so sought after in the illegal trade. From Africa to Israel, the gecko is captured, smuggled and imprisoned, and its life turns from miraculous to tragic.

A surge in the incidence of monkeypox in Africa - what must be done to prevent a global epidemic

Science site The Conversation
August 18, 2024
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Continuing the Tracing of Human Descent: The Impact of Climate on Out-of-Africa Migration

Avi Blizovsky
January 10, 2024
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Sediment studies in the Mediterranean reveal the existence of a green corridor in the Sahara desert that emerged at the exact time when our ancestors migrated from Africa about 2.1 million years ago

Can aliens discover us? New research explains

Avi Blizovsky
July 22, 2023
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What could aliens pick up from the radio leak from Earth? How would Earth look to an alien civilization light years away from us?

Rewriting human evolution: Great apes lived in open habitats 10 million years earlier than expected

Avi Blizovsky
April 26, 2023
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Using rigorous and detailed collection methods, the researchers were able to place the remains of fossilized apes, such as Morotopithecus, in detailed reconstructions of habitats. Credit: Corbin Rainbolt

Africa - the continent most sensitive to the climate crisis

Dr. Asaf Rosenthal
July 15, 2022
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Between 2010 and 2020 more than 170 million Africans were affected by drought and at the same time more than 40 million Africans were affected by floods. Because of the climate crisis, by 2030 about 40 million will deteriorate

The rise and fall of the Nile princess

Dr. Asaf Rosenthal
July 13, 2022
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In recent decades - after reaching a peak due to the population of Lake Victoria with the predatory fish that was not there before, the fishing productivity in Lake Victoria is decreasing due to overfishing and mortality due to water pollution.

Save the coffee

Dr. Asaf Rosenthal
March 10, 2022
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Researchers were looking for new varieties of coffee in Africa, which could replace the Arabica variety whose cultivation was damaged by climate change * A candidate was found in Sierra Leone

A polluting controller?

Dr. Asaf Rosenthal
December 8, 2021
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In the past I have already referred to the need to reduce meat consumption in the face of the significant differences between the industrial form of farming in large farms in Western countries and nomadic herders, mainly in African countries. They are still not considered