Winds, Currents and Climate Mode Drive Twice-Yearly Sargassum Waves onto West African Shores
A combination of satellite data, ocean modelling and particle-tracking experiments reveals that Sargassum inundations along the northern Gulf of Guinea ...
Tag: West Africa
What Surrounds the Rice Field Matters More Than What Happens Inside It
A two-year study of rain-fed rice fields in Guinea-Bissau finds that the structure of the surrounding landscape, not local field ...
Monoculture Farms Are Silently Cutting Off West Africa’s Guinea Baboons
A landmark landscape genetics study of 243 Guinea baboons reveals that intensive monoculture farming severs gene flow across West Africa, ...
Contraception Within Reach? Burkina Faso’s Family Planning Gap Mapped Facility by Facility
A new geospatial analysis of 2,757 health facilities and nearly 7,000 women in Burkina Faso finds that while contraceptive services ...
Rainfall’s Hidden Threshold: Moderate Wet Weeks Drive Diarrhea and Skin Infections in Rural Gambia
A thirteen-year analysis of clinic records in rural Gambia finds moderate weekly rainfall raises the risk of diarrheal disease and ...
Sausage Tree Seeds Lose Their Power After Just One Year in Storage, Benin Study Finds
A new study from Benin shows that seeds of the threatened sausage tree Kigelia africana germinate best when fresh and ...
Satellite Record Reveals 25 Years of Dust and Haze Over Nigeria
A 25-year machine-learning-corrected satellite record of aerosol optical depth over Nigeria reveals stable national trends, a February dust peak, and ...
Atlantic Niño, Not El Niño, Drives West Africa’s Extreme Coastal Floods
A new study reconstructing extreme coastal water levels from Mauritania to Cameroon finds that tides, wave run-up, and the Atlantic ...
Dolutegravir Therapy Suppresses HIV-1 in Nine of Ten Patients in Benin
A study of more than 17,000 patients in Benin found about 91 percent viral suppression on dolutegravir-based therapy, with marked ...
Moist Heatwaves Set to Become Near-Annual Reality in Northern Nigeria by 2050
A new CMIP6-based study projects that moist heatwaves in Nigeria's Sokoto Rima Basin will rise from rare events to near-annual ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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