The Angolan Highlands are hydrologically and ecologically important - and the region’s newly mapped peatlands are valuable “carbon sinks”.
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Under South African law, girls have the right to continue their schooling through and after their pregnancies.
People are starting to notice the weather and climate, and to understand climate change better than ever before.
Consensus is the first step towards solving problems - but it’s been hard to reach.
The country’s long-dominant party has been losing support in elections.
With Uhuru Kenyatta leaving office to make way for a new leader, it was always going to be an eventful year for Kenya.
Children who need help most tend to experience adversity throughout childhood. That continuing adversity muffles the benefit of improved early nutrition.
L’endothermie a probablement été l’une des clés du succès évolutif des mammifères et des oiseaux. Il est donc crucial de dater son origine.
South Africans would rather see efforts go into tackling other challenges – but climate change will intensify those challenges.
Despite its vagueness, the RET has become central to the contemporary ANC. It is destined to remain a powerful bloc within the party, and a constant constraint on Ramaphosa leadership.
Education can’t make up for inadequacies in other policies that continue to cause mass unemployment.
DDT accumulates in wildlife and magnifies up the food chain. Birds of prey occupy the top of these food chains in various ecosystems.
The impeachment process could derail Ramaphosa’s political career and seriously hurt the governing ANC’s electoral prospects in 2024.
The individual stories of migrant women are essential in understanding if HIV healthcare strategies and programmes are working.
Experts across the board have identified inequality as a major challenge to efforts to end AIDS.
Across the world, phenological events are occurring increasingly earlier as a result of climate change.
The benefit of an injectable product is that it avoids the adherence issues related to taking a pill daily.
A new exhibition in Johannesburg focuses on the beliefs and paintings of the San people.
As the world’s population ages, cheap, durable and safe artificial limbs will become ever more important.
La COP27 a permis de réaliser des progrès sur le financement des pertes et dommages, il reste à voir si cela se traduira par des actions..
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Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Clinician, University of the Witwatersrand
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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Wits Centre for Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Dinosaur Paleontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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SA UK Bilateral Research Professor in Political Theory, Wits and Cambridge, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoc Research Fellow - Digital Governance and Media, University of the Witwatersrand
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Curator of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, Palaeontology student, University of the Witwatersrand
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Clinical Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
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Academic and treaty negotiator, University of the Witwatersrand
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Acting Head of Environmental Justice, Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
