The African Plant Database lists 65,000 species of flowering plants, ferns and conifers found on the African continent and ...

Although assistance is given towards this compilation from public funds on the ground of its general utility, it must be understood that it is not an official ...

Drawn by European powers with little regard for the people living there, this map from 1935 still shapes Africa’s politics, ...

Protected areas are crucial for wildlife conservation, but many are under unprecedented pressure associated with exponential ...

Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth ...

While most gut microbiome research focuses on high-income countries, a groundbreaking study led by two scientists from South Africa is shifting that narrative. Professors from the University of the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Festus Adegbola, a University at Buffalo PhD student who is using remote sensing technology to monitor biodiversity from the air, has been awarded the Future Investigators in NASA ...

Vegetation pattern is one of the most important self-organized patterns in ecological systems. The formation mechanism of vegetation patterns has been attributed to dynamic bifurcations, while from ...

Remote sensing observations appear as a good alternative or addition to existing crop monitoring systems. In this study, a new approach based on the combination of vegetation and thermal indices for ...

BEIJING -- China has released its most detailed map yet of grassland vegetation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, using a scale of 1:500,000. The map, developed by a team led by Wang Yanfen, a ...

The Vegetation Water Content (VWC) map for the Cloud and Land Surface Interaction Campaign 2007 (CLASIC07) was derived by calculating Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) from ResourceSat-1 ...