Awareness, high prices block progress on food loss
Apr 4, 2018, 8:00 pm By SciDevStatement by expert group highlights steps to help farmers adopt available tools.Low awareness, high prices block progress on food loss
Apr 4, 2018, 8:00 pm By SciDevStatement by expert group highlights steps to help farmers adopt available tools.Study counts lives saved with push for 1.50C climate target
Apr 3, 2018, 8:00 pm By SciDevAfrican and Asian cities to benefit most from lives saved in fast shift to renewables.Genomic models predict shorter time for banana breeding
Apr 3, 2018, 12:13 pm By SciDevThe time it takes to create better banana hybrids could be cut by several years.Latin America’s tropical dry forests fading away
Mar 29, 2018, 8:00 pm By SciDevOverlooked by science, these forests are fragmented and under threat.Course grains better than rice for health, environment
Mar 29, 2018, 8:20 am By SciDevRice is not only deficient in nutrients but its cultivation releases methane, a major greenhouse gas, says study.SciDev.Net launches Script training course
Mar 28, 2018, 8:30 am By SciDevObjective is to increase the number of science articles in African media.World’s biodiversity lost faster than it recovers
Mar 26, 2018, 12:03 pm By SciDevAssessments signed off by hundreds of scientists warn about the health of the planet.Global water data to be crowdsourced from private sector
Mar 22, 2018, 8:40 am By SciDevPlan to build the world’s first water management database draws heavily from private firms’ resources.Foresters too silent on tech advances
Mar 21, 2018, 10:03 am By SciDevScientific tools need sharing more widely to meet the forestry SDG, says global partnership.Argentine NGO objects to antiretroviral patent request
Mar 19, 2018, 8:55 am By SciDevIt says granting a patent would raise cost of drug used to treat half of Argentina’s HIV-infected population.Are ‘native’ scientists not good enough?
Fri 9:59am By SciDevThe Philippine government’s tendency to rely on foreign experts has riled up local scientists.Brazil’s high court upholds ‘risky’ forest code
Mar 15, 2018, 7:35 am By SciDevResearchers and environmentalists argue the decision will have serious consequences.One-dose cholera vaccine gives 90 per cent protection
Mar 14, 2018, 11:33 am By SciDevZambia study shows single-dose vaccine offers protection in settings with no recent history of an outbreak.Mapping techniques to ‘leave no one behind’
Mar 13, 2018, 5:00 am By SciDevCreating maps in unprecedented detail is aiding efforts from vaccination to disaster relief. Gareth Willmer reports.Typhoid superbug spreading in Pakistan
Mar 9, 2018, 9:38 am By SciDevResearchers raise alarm over outbreak of typhoid resistant to five classes of antibiotics.Africa’s 20,000 weather station plan
Mar 6, 2018, 9:32 am By SciDevA network of weather stations is being rolled out, feeding demand for free data and funded by sales to companies.Test spots malaria in two minutes, without blood
Mar 5, 2018, 12:00 pm By SciDevIt picks up crystals excreted by the malaria parasite and hints at a shift towards self-diagnosis in the community.Test spots malaria in two minutes, without blood
Mar 5, 2018, 12:00 pm By SciDevIt picks up crystals excreted by the malaria parasite and hints at a shift towards self-diagnosis in the community.Anti-vaccine attitudes go deeper than education
Mar 1, 2018, 7:00 pm By SciDevMistrust in vaccines is more motivated by factors other than education, such as belief in conspiracy theories.
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