Paris (AFP) – In 1974, anthropologists in Ethiopia found the astonishing fossilised remains of a human-like creature who last walked the planet some 3.2 million years ago. Was “Lucy,” as the hominid was called, the direct ancestor of Homo sapiens? Was she “The Mother of Mankind,” as some headlines claimed? Over the years, the dramatic
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BY SAM P.K. COLLINS In recent years, public health experts have acknowledged that lowering the risk of the cancer among people of color in the United States, particularly African Americans, will require diet and environmental changes that can only come about through a combination of government intervention and individual fortitude. However, questions remain about what
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ADDIS ABABA (BERNAMA-NNN-ENA) — The Ethiopian government is striving to provide affordable, reliable and secure energy for the society which it deems essential in building a modern economy, says Water, Irrigation and Energy Minister Alemayehu Tegenu. The energy sector in the country is currently experiencing rapid technological progress, something which had been difficult to consider
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JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Aim-listed gold explorer and developer Kefi Minerals has received approval from Ethiopia’s Ministry of Mines to develop its Tulu Kapi project. The company’s application for the 86 000-oz/y mine was now before the Council of Ministers for approval to execute a mining agreement and to issue the mining licence and full permitting
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By Karim Lebhour, PHYS Conservationists estimate there are, at most, 1,000 lions left in the wild in Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous nation Ethiopia’s black-maned lions once represented a former emperor, “Lion of Judah” Haile Selassie, and were immortalised in a song by reggae legend Bob Marley. Today, they struggle for survival. A booming human population,
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By Pallab Ghosh The fossil’s teeth are smaller than those of other human relatives Scientists have unearthed the jawbone of what they claim is one of the very first humans. The 2.8 million-year-old specimen is 400,000 years older than researchers thought that our kind first emerged. The discovery in Ethiopia suggests climate change spurred the
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By Pallab Ghosh The fossil’s teeth are smaller than those of other human relatives Scientists have unearthed the jawbone of what they claim is one of the very first humans. The 2.8 million-year-old specimen is 400,000 years older than researchers thought that our kind first emerged. The discovery in Ethiopia suggests climate change spurred the
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Medical Press In a remarkable new advance against the virus that causes AIDS, scientists from the Jupiter, Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have announced the creation of a novel drug candidate that is so potent and universally effective, it might work as part of an unconventional vaccine. The research, which involved scientists
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By Megan Perry, Sustainable Food Trust s://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1y5fssKiTw A land grab twice the size of France is under way in Ethiopia, as the government pursues the wholesale seizure of indigenous lands to turn them over to dams and plantations for sugar, palm oil, cotton and biofuels run by foreign corporations, destroying ancient cultures and turning Lake
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By James Gallagher MPs have voted in favour of the creation of babies with DNA from two women and one man, in an historic move. The UK is now set to become the first country to introduce laws to allow the creation of babies from three people. In a free vote in the Commons, 382
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