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Nearly 17% of the world’s croplands are contaminated with “heavy metals”, according to a new study in Science. These ...
A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.
One of the leaders was Geoffrey West, who sports a neatly trimmed gray beard and retains a trace of the accent of ... Two of these are those you see on the map. He describes the half-dimension ...
The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA), an ambitious cultural institution redefining the role of museums in Africa, is calling on Nigerian investors to take greater ownership in its growth ...
MANILA, Philippines — Social media had been abuzz since Monday as netizens noticed that “West Philippine Sea” (WPS) was appearing prominently on Google Maps to mark the stretch of water west of the ...
A company majority-owned by billionaire Vincent Bolloré's Bolloré Group and Hubert Fabri is the subject of allegations of labor abuses at some of its African rubber plantations, including by ...
Sparsely populated areas in the Jordan Valley have come under increasing pressure from settlers who have begun grazing large ...
Stories of the kingdom of Kaabu's reign have been told for generations through a kind of traditional song. Now, an ...
MANILA, (PIA) — Google has increased the visibility of the label “West Philippine Sea” on its Maps platform, a change that has been warmly welcomed by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), ...
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, West Africa is facing a new outbreak of Ebola. A global emergency stockpile of Ebola vaccine is being deployed to curb the epidemic, although experts are confident ...