Sometimes words fall hopelessly short. This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their vehicle crunches ...
Renowned South African cheetah conservationist and National Geographic Explorer Vincent van der Merwe took his own life in ...
Falcons are found across the globe, on every continent except for Antarctica. There are 39 species of falcon in the […] ...
Prof Kelly Chibale receives Queens’ College Honorary Fellowship UCT’s Prof Kelly Chibale was recently conferred an honorary fellowship in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the drug ...
Spring migrations runs between March 1 and June 15. Fall migration runs between August 1 and November 30. Peak spring migration is in April. Birds are on the move as their annual spring migration ...
He won a Tony Award for lifetime achievement in 2011. More recent plays include “The Train Driver" (2010) and “The Bird Watchers” (2011), which both premiered at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town. As an ...
This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In February 2024, dairy farmers in the northwest corner of the Texas ...
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has officially joined DataCite, a global non-profit organisation dedicated to providing persistent digital object identifiers (DOIs) for research data. This ...
Sky-high egg prices have drawn renewed attention to the bird flu outbreak, which has caused more than 166 million wild and domestic birds in the U.S. to die since it began in 2022. While the ...
The song of the chingolo can be heard across South America. But young songbirds were no longer learning the tunes of their elders—until scientists stepped in. A rufous-collared sparrow ...
A microscope image of H5N1 avian influenza. Credit: CDC and NIAID Bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has been circulating across North America since 2022, infecting birds, livestock, wildlife, pets, ...
“In this photo, I’m monitoring gulls near Sandgerði, a small fishing village in southwest Iceland. This area is a volcanic peninsula, and although there’s a lot of precipitation, most of ...