Two invasive species — the brown tree snake and the American bullfrog — cost the world more than $16 billion between 1986 and 2020, according to a study.Researchers say the already-hefty price tag should be seen as a lower limit on the true cost of inv...
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August 3, 2022 Web Desk
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In 1998, I joined a group of journalists traveling to Afghanistan’s Khost province to meet the leaders of a militant group who'd already logged a string of attacks and were announcing a new terrorism conglomerate. As we arrived, Arab fighters fired int...
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August 3, 2022 Web Desk
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The World Health Organization warns a lack of humanitarian aid is driving millions of hungry people in the Horn of Africa to engage in desperate measures to survive.Conditions in the Horn of Africa are worsening. Conflict, climate change, and the COVID...
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August 3, 2022 Web Desk
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The World Health Organization is urgently appealing for $123.7 million to provide emergency aid for millions of people facing an unprecedented food and health crisis in the Horn of Africa.U.N. aid agencies report more than 80 million people in the grea...
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August 2, 2022 Web Desk
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ADDIS ABABA— The vast majority of deaths due to monkeypox have been registered on the African continent but Africa remains the only part of the world with no doses of the vaccine, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The W...
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August 2, 2022 Web Desk
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