For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids 🔆

Nigeria is pioneering the development of small, off-grid solar panel
installations to bring reliable electricity to remote communities — setting a
model for other African countries.

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👉 https://knowmag.org/Minigrids_KM

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👉 https://knowmag.org/Minigrids_KEE

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💡 Everything you need to know about bird flu: https://arevie.ws/BirdFlu_KM

How dangerous is it? Where did it come from? #H5N1 influenza’s origins stretch back to the 1990s, and key events paved the way for the outbreak we’re seeing today.

“This is the largest animal disease outbreak we’ve ever had,” Maurice Pitesky, a veterinary researcher at the University of California, Davis, tells @KnowableMag

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“Many public health advocates and scholars see sugar-sweetened-beverage taxes (often simply called soda taxes) as key to reducing obesity and its adverse health effects,” write behavioral economists Kristin Kiesel and Richard J. Sexton. “But a careful look at the data challenges this view.”

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🥤 In @KnowableMag: https://arevie.ws/SodaTaxes_KM
🥤 Take a deeper dive (Annual Review of Resource Economics): https://arevie.ws/SodaTaxes_RE15

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Bed bugs have resurfaced with a vengeance in 50 countries since the late 1990s. But recently, the resurgence has brought an added twist.

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➡️ “Getting rid of bed bugs: Trickier than ever” (@KnowableMag) https://arevie.ws/BedBugs_KM

➡️ “Historical and Contemporary Control Options Against Bed Bugs, Cimex spp.” (Annual Review of Entomology) https://arevie.ws/BedBugs_EN68

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As sea level rises, coastal groundwater rises too — increasing the risk of damage to underground infrastructure such as buried pipes and wires, as well as flooding basements and rutting roadways.

More:
”The hidden threat from rising coastal groundwater“ (Knowable Magazine)
https://arevie.ws/Habel_KM

“Hidden Threat: The Influence of Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Groundwater and the Convergence of Impacts on Municipal Infrastructure” (Annual Review of Marine Science)
https://arevie.ws/Habel_MS16

Peoples who live close to nature have a rich lore of plants, animals and landscapes embedded in their mother tongues — which may hold vital clues to protecting biodiversity.

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🗣️ Indigenous languages are founts of environmental knowledge (@KnowableMag)
https://arevie.ws/EnvironmentalLinguistics_KM

🗣️ Environmental Linguistics (Annual Review of Linguistics)
https://arevie.ws/EnvironmentalLinguistics_LI9

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A massive bias in medical studies toward men of European origin means that genetic variants in understudied populations don’t get the focus they deserve, writes bioinformatician and Annual Reviews co-author Manuel Corpas.

Read the #OpEd in @KnowableMag: https://arevie.ws/GWAS_KM

Take a deeper dive: “Addressing Ancestry and Sex Bias in Pharmacogenomics” (Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology) https://arevie.ws/GWAS_PA64
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”It is time for a serious, proactive international response to the forest health crisis. If we continue to just react to threats as they pop up, biodiversity will continue to suffer.”

Read the #OpEd by Annual Review of Phytopathology co-author Geoff Williams: https://arevie.ws/Forests_KM (@KnowableMag)

Read the #OpenAccess review: https://arevie.ws/Forests_PY61 (Annual Review of Phytopathology)

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There’s growing interest in studying coffee as an agroecosystem. Such farming methods have the potential not only to help sustain our caffeine fix, but also to provide a bounty of biological richness.

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☕ “How shade coffee lends conservation a hand” (@KnowableMag)
https://arevie.ws/CoffeeEco_KM

☕ “Complex Ecological Interactions in the Coffee Agroecosystem” (Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics)
https://arevie.ws/CoffeeEco_ES45

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Sports psychology research has exploded, as scientists have explored the nuances of everything from the pursuit of perfection to the harms of abusive coaching. Such research has the potential not only to enhance athletic performance, they say, but also to provide insights into psychological influences on success in other realms.

More via:
🏈 @KnowableMag: https://arevie.ws/SportsPsych_KM
🏈 Annual Review of Psychology: https://arevie.ws/SportsPsych_PS74

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