State of the world's nursing 2025
<p>Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent
Africa
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The unpleasant green
There is no answer to the water hyacinth menace in Lake Victoria
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The magnificent 500
DNA studies suggest that a mere 500 people moving out of Africa could have populated the rest of the world
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Africa is heading for trouble
The founding president of African Academy of Science, <font class='UCASE'><font color=red><b>Thomas R Odhiambo</b></font></font> , has been working to evolve a framework necessary for stimulating technological development and environmental protection i
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Learning to sense danger
endangered monkeys can now be taught to avoid human poachers. Researchers have discovered that the Diana monkey, Cercopithecus diana, in C
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Hippo fossil trail
It seemed to be a rough dirt road leading to nowhere. But these are the the remains of hippo trails leading to dried-up wallowing pools in a remote part of Tanzania. Hippos wallow in freshwater
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UNITED NATIONS
The United Nations Development Pro gramme and the United Nations Department of Humani tarian Affairs Response will assist Kenya to cope up with the effects of two years of poor rains which has
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East Africa
One of the case studies of this year's Stockholm Water Sympo sium is Lake Victoria, an important natural resource in east Africa, which is under stress. The rapidly growing populations in the
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Problems of solutions
Birth control measures in African elephants have been withdrawn following undesirable results
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In dubious battle
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species CITES has failed to curb illegal trade in Indian wildlife and wildlife products. But India s stand at CITES, at variance with its position in other environmental fora, was repugnant and hollow
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Eco brahmanism
Neither CITES nor the retrogressive Indian approach to conservation has been able to protect key Indian species from poaching