Tag: africa
Fences have big effects on land and wildlife around the world...
Alex McInturff, University of California Santa Barbara; Christine Wilkinson, University of California, Berkeley, and Wenjing Xu, University of California, Berkeley
What is the most common...
COVID-19: examining theories for Africa’s low death rates
Kevin Marsh, University of Oxford and Moses Alobo, African Academy of Sciences
As the threat of a COVID-19 pandemic emerged earlier this year, many felt...
High-value opportunities exist to restore tropical rainforests around the world –...
Robin Chazdon, University of Connecticut
The green belt of tropical rainforests that covers equatorial regions of the Americas, Africa, Indonesia and Southeast Asia is turning...
Ancient DNA is revealing the origins of livestock herding in Africa
Mary Prendergast, Saint Louis University – Madrid and Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
Visitors to East Africa are often...
Ancient DNA is revealing the origins of livestock herding in Africa
Mary Prendergast, Saint Louis University – Madrid and Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
Visitors to East Africa are often...
Anthony Bourdain’s window into Africa
Jacob Henry, University of Hawaii
Anthony Bourdain might have been a celebrity chef, but viewers of his Emmy Award-winning travel show, “Parts Unknown,” didn’t tune...
America’s petty policy on used clothes for Africa
Garth Frazer, University of Toronto
Fostering international development has long been viewed as central to the moral, humanitarian, strategic and security interests of the United...
How a young Ernest Hemingway dealt with his first taste of...
Verna Kale, Pennsylvania State University
When he published “The Sun Also Rises” in 1926, Ernest Hemingway was well-known among the expatriate literati of Paris and...
EXPLORING NATURE
From ancient texts to modern practices, Daoism provides a profound framework...
Michael Naparstek, University of Tennessee
Daoism, China’s indigenous religion, is one of the country’s five officially recognized religions today....
