Homes for Ukraine was a shining example of public generosity – but it might not work for other populations: The Russian invasion of Ukraine has forced at least 12 million Ukrainians to flee their homes. Many of these refugees have moved elsewhere in Europe, including to the UK, where the government offered specialised visa routes …
DRC has one of the fastest growing populations in the world – why this isn’t good news: Getty Images The demographic profile of a country matters because it sets its development pace – it creates opportunities and presents risks. For many developing countries, the challenge is to manage a demographic profile that puts pressure on …
Roadkill: vehicle collisions may be threatening the survival of some mammal populations: It’s almost impossible to take your car for a drive without seeing some of the millions of animals that are killed on roads each year. Such deaths, commonly referred to by researchers as roadkill, negatively affect wildlife populations. But exactly how it does …
A dangerous pesticide isn’t being monitored in key bird of prey populations – we’re shedding light on that gap: GettyImages It was once regarded as a miracle chemical to protect against disease and improve global food production. The man who discovered its properties even won a Nobel Prize for medicine. But today, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is …
Japan’s ivory market is no longer a threat to elephant populations – here’s why: Ivory poaching is threatening regional elephant populations. MPH Photos/Shutterstock Elephants feature heavily in mythology, religion and popular culture. Yet they are hunted for their ivory tusks. Ivory poaching has led to a 70% decline in African elephant numbers over the past …
A cool South African City image: British Library digitised image from page 466 of “Illustrated Official Handbook of the Cape and South Africa. A résumé of the history, conditions, populations, productions, and resources of the several colonies, states, and territories. Edited by John Nob Image by The British Library Image taken from: Title: "Illustrated Official …
Plagues of wasps? A scientist explains why you shouldn’t panic about rumours of rising populations: Thomas Hochreutener/Shutterstock Late summer is all about BBQs, ice creams and parents counting down the days until schools open. Then along comes a wasp. There’s some screaming and flapping (mostly by the parents). Usually, no one gets stung and the …
A nice South African City image: British Library digitised image from page 542 of “Illustrated Official Handbook of the Cape and South Africa. A résumé of the history, conditions, populations, productions, and resources of the several colonies, states, and territories. Edited by John Nob Image by The British Library Image taken from: Title: "Illustrated Official …
A cool South African City image: British Library digitised image from page 545 of “Illustrated Official Handbook of the Cape and South Africa. A résumé of the history, conditions, populations, productions, and resources of the several colonies, states, and territories. Edited by John Nob Image by The British Library Image taken from: Title: "Illustrated Official …
Politicians live longer than the populations they represent: new research: Joe Biden is the oldest person to be sworn in as US president. New research shows politicians are likely to live longer than the populations they represent. BiksuTong / Shutterstock In many countries, inequalities in income and wealth have been rising since the 1980s. It …
Check out this South African City image: British Library digitised image from page 604 of “Illustrated Official Handbook of the Cape and South Africa. A résumé of the history, conditions, populations, productions, and resources of the several colonies, states, and territories. Edited by John Nob Image by The British Library Image taken from: Title: "Illustrated …
Check out this South African City image: British Library digitised image from page 732 of “Illustrated Official Handbook of the Cape and South Africa. A résumé of the history, conditions, populations, productions, and resources of the several colonies, states, and territories. Edited by John Nob Image by The British Library Image taken from: Title: "Illustrated …
Why we shouldn’t worry about COVID spilling back from animals into human populations: Human physiological uniqueness made possible our colonisation of the world. Since our ancestors emerged from the African savanna tens of thousands of years ago, we’ve migrated and established residence in more or less every region on the planet, regardless of how hot …
Genetic diversity is key in conservation: here’s a list to help manage lion populations: Lion diversity is distributed across four different evolutionary lineages: East Africa, Southern Africa, West/Central Africa and India. Laura Bertola Biodiversity exists at three different levels: diversity between ecosystems, between species, and within species. The genetic diversity that exists within a species …
Check out this South African City image: British Library digitised image from page 723 of “Illustrated Official Handbook of the Cape and South Africa. A résumé of the history, conditions, populations, productions, and resources of the several colonies, states, and territories. Edited by John Nob Image by The British Library Image taken from: Title: "Illustrated …
Why the changing colour of our streetlights could be a danger for insect populations: Surveying moth caterpillars Douglas Boyes Life on Earth has evolved alongside predictable cycles of day and night. But this pattern has become increasingly blurred. Between 2012 and 2016, satellite measurements revealed that the global area polluted by artificial light grew by …
Coral reefs: climate change and pesticides could conspire to crash fish populations: Jose Angel Astor Rocha/Shutterstock Australia barely had time to recover from record breaking fires at the start of 2020 before the Great Barrier Reef experienced its third mass coral bleaching event in the past five years. Only five of these have occurred since …
Monitoring populations helps to put the right health services in place: Flickr/Isabel Sommerfeld Fourteen years ago South African researchers first picked up rising rates of high blood pressure in the population that led to people dying earlier than expected. But it wasn’t in the bustling urban metropolis of Johannesburg in South Africa’s economic hub where …