Nautil By Amy Maxmen Two hammers, two shovels, four rifles. They carried their own tools. Zeresenay Alemseged, a young and driven Ethiopian fossil hunter, joined by four armed soldiers and a government official, was on a mission to the Afar Depression, a region shaped like a tornado in Ethiopia’s Great Rift Valley. The Afar is
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Business Insider LAUREN F FRIEDMAN TWITTERGOOGPREMAIL Coffee wakes you up in the morning and keeps you alert throughout the day, but how does its magic ingredient actually work? Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown demystify the inner workings of caffeine in their latest ASAP Science video. The first thing to know is that part of your natural tiredness comes from a
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PRWEB The Yara Prize 2014 is being awarded to Professor Tekalign Mamo Assefa. Currently state minister and adviser to the Ethiopian Minister of Agriculture, Professor Mamo has long been a key contributor to the country’s food security, soil health, and natural resources programs. Oslo, Norway (PRWEB UK) For 2014, the Yara Prize Committee has focused
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Phys.org By Kelly Izlar Scientists have released these tiny beetles in Ethiopia to fight a toxic, invasive weed.(Phys.org) —An invasive weed poses a serious and frightening threat to farming families in Ethiopia, but scientists from a Virginia Tech-led program have unleashed a new weapon in the fight against hunger: a tiny, speckled beetle. The weed,
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World Bulletin A UN report also asserted that Ethiopia’s low level of economic development, coupled with a heavy dependence on rain-fed agriculture and high population growth, made the country particularly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change. World Bulletin / News Desk Climate change has impacted people’s livelihoods in Ethiopia, a new United Nations
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BBC By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, Farmer digs a whole in a cassava field (Getty Images) Biotechnology could help improve African agriculture’s resilience to future climate changes Sub-Saharan Africa’s agricultural sector needs to harvest the fruits of biotechnology in order to establish sustainable development, says a report. A key challenge is to attract funding for
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Addis Ababa, 31 May 2014 – President Barack Obama hosted the 2014 White House Science Fair last Tuesday, May 27th highlighting some of “America’s most innovative students” and featuring a variety of projects, including a pedestrian alert system designed for use in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia invented by Ethiopian-born Felege Gebru, 18, and Karen Fan, 17
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New Scientists IT’S a volcano, but not as we know it. This cerulean eruption takes place in the Danakil Depression, a low-lying plain in Ethiopia. The volcano’s lava is the usual orange-red – the blue comes from flames produced when escaping sulphuric gases burn. French photographer Olivier Grunewald creates such images without using colour filters
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By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research Based on research conducted in the 1990s, this article was first published by The Ecologist in September 2000. It was subsequently incorporated into the Second edition of The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order, Global Research, Montreal, 2003. The research focussed on how GMO seeds were used as of the
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Globes online Idan Ofer told allAfrica: We want to turn Ethiopia into Africa’s potash hub. Israel Corporation (TASE: ILCO) controlling shareholder Idan Ofer has promised to make Ethiopia “Africa’s center of potash production,” and invest in the country’s electricity infrastructure, reports allAfrica. Israel Chemicals, controlled by Israel Corp. recently bought a 30% stake in Canada’s
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