Africa is the second largest continent after Asia, having a larger than 30 million km2 area. Doubtlessly, one of the biggest ecological and societal problems of the twenty-first century is climate change. Since
8, 9. For Africa, this analysis was further separated into the Northern vs Southern hemisphere of the continent. For South America – and specifically for the ATTO-relevant footprint region – the fire maps were further subdivided into the biome regions Amazônia, Cerrado, Caatinga, and Mata ...
THE African Development Bank (AfDB) and Google have signed a letter of intent to formalise cooperation aimed at advancing digital transformation across Africa. The agreement, signed during the Global Africa Business Initiative at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, emphasises a shared ...
Who wouldn't want to boast about standing on the most southern point of the African continent gazing at the vastness of the ocean and knowing that the only closest land is Antarctica? Centuries later, with the development of cartography, it became clear that "the southernmost point in the ...
Geothermal energy potential is identified through the deep investigation of geological, geothermal, and geophysical information over a small area; however, this task is both expensive and complex. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can integrate differ
The simulations used here all span the African continent and use the Met Office Unified Model (UM). Two model configurations are used: a 4.5-km resolution simulation (CP4), which is based on the UKV Met Office regional model used operationally in the UK since 2012, and a 25-km resolution...
Only 26% of the population in Africa has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccines in contrast to 62% of the global coverage of at least one dose [158,159]. This represents a ratio of 11.8 per 100 people that are fully vaccinated with COVID-19 vaccines on the continent. Of ...
On the continent, countries such as Ethiopia aim for agricultural development-led industrialization (Keulertz and Woertz, 2015). For the continent, agricultural land cover change is a critical factor in gauging agricultural production. 4.1. Understanding agricultural land change and drivers Over the ...
To date, a lot of success has been achieved: in Africa the disease has been eliminated as a public health problem across the length and breadth of the continent [9, 10]. In America onchocerciasis has been eliminated in four of the six endemic countries [2]. However, it is worthy of no...
aegypti aegypti outside the African continent, focusing on its role as a vector and its interactions with humans in urban and semi-urban environments. Although Africa was the cradle of modern Aedes surveillance and control methodologies stemming from the yellow fever research activities undertaken in ...