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South African public research university in Stellenbosch, known for strong programs in natural sciences, agriculture, and conservation research.
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Sophie von der Heyden's review, the first across Africa's coast, finds seagrass restoration trials in six countries and meadow loss data in only four. Elsewhere the status of meadows is unknown, and the handful of trials is too small to show which restoration methods work.
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Researchers at the University of Aberdeen found more than 1 in 10 of 4,203 Scottish adults surveyed in 2023 faced fuel, food and financial insecurity at once. That overlap is nearly triple what chance would produce, though the study's link to poor health comes from associations in one self-reported survey.
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Stellenbosch chemists found 79 phenolic compounds in Cannabis leaves from three strains, including 16 tentative flavoalkaloids, a class new to the plant. Discarded leaves now merit a strain-by-strain chemical screen, since most of those came mainly from one strain and no activity testing was reported.
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Liver samples from 102 caracal deaths show anticoagulant rodenticides accumulating in an apex predator, most of them the potent second-generation compounds still sold over the counter.
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A new compilation of Namibian and South African sightings finds 95% of blue and fin whale observations came after 2012. The counts are tiny, and that is the useful part.
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