A team of researchers at Dalhousie University has some words of warning about the genetically modified mosquitoes recently released in Brazil. While they agree mosquito-borne illnesses cause immense human suffering, they are urging for scientific processes that are safe, ethical and just.
In Nigeria, decades of military rule, and it’s emergence as a crude oil producer in the 1970s, were among the biggest factors that made Lagos what it is today. The city is vastly different from its early days in the 1950s when it was well planned and managed. Ndubisi Onwuanyi unpacks Lagos’s complex history and spells out what needs to be done to revive governance.
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Mosquitoes are one of the deadliest creatures because they are carriers for many lethal viruses.
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Natalie Kofler, Yale University; Françoise Baylis, Dalhousie University; Graham Dellaire, Dalhousie University; Landon J Getz, Dalhousie University
Genetically modified mosquitoes were released in Brazil in an attempt to halt the spread of dengue fever by reducing the mosquito population.
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Lagos was affected positively and negatively by Nigeria’s emergence as a crude oil producer in the 1970s.
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Ndubisi Onwuanyi, University of Benin
The foundations of orderliness for any city are planning and management. Lagos had this in place in the early days.
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Environment + Energy
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Hans Paerl, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
As climate change speeds up tropical storm cycles, rivers and bays have less time to process nutrients and pollutants that wash into them after each event.
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Charlie Gardner, University of Kent
The signs of spring are advancing at different rates - and the consequences for ecosystems could be disastrous.
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Politics + Society
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Xu Chen, Queensland University of Technology; Wilfred Wang, Monash University
Rather than marriage, same-sex couples in China are allowed a 'guardianship appointment'. But this system is yet another way the Chinese government tries to silence LGBT+ issues from being discussed.
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Paul O'Shea, Lund University; Sebastian Maslow, University of Tokyo
The US is still a major world power and world leaders need to keep in Donald Trump's good books.
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Business + Economy
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Martin Quinn, Queen's University Belfast
Having only started producing whisky in 2006, the small subtropical island is producing millions of bottles and scooping up top industry awards.
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