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EDITORIAL 09 October 2019 Researchers are assessing the environmental risks posed by a dam on the Nile. The countries involved should let them finish the job. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is nearly two-thirds complete.Credit: NASA/Planet Pix/ZUMA Scientists investigating the hydrology of the Nile are likely to have heard the story of their tenth-century predecessor, […] More
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NEWS 04 October 2019 The Renaissance Dam project has sparked a dispute over Ethiopia’s development needs, versus Egypt’s concerns over water scarcity and climate change. Antoaneta Roussi Search for this author in: Ethiopia’s highland waterfalls, from where the Blue Nile begins.Credit: Hermes/AGF/UIG/Getty Environmental scientists representing Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan are at the heart of an […] More
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BOOKS AND ARTS 02 October 2019 Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week’s best science picks. Barbara Kiser Search for this author in: Food or War Julian Cribb Cambridge University Press (2019) Hammered by environmental stresses and mismanagement, our food system is inequitable and unstable. As science journalist Julian Cribb argues in this incisive analysis, […] More
CORRESPONDENCE 01 October 2019 Aaron Micallef University of Malta, Msida, Malta. Search for this author in: In view of extreme water shortages in major coastal cities — last year’s in Cape Town, South Africa, and this year’s in Chennai, India, are just two examples — we argue for the investigation of offshore groundwater reservoirs as […] More
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