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Sleeping sickness is no longer a health threat in Guinea, which may be a tipping point in the continent’s efforts to beat the pathogen ...

During a recent examination of mud from a mangrove swamp in Sierra Leone it was found that despite a high (5 per cent) dilute acid-extractable aluminium content, there was practically no aluminium ...

Mangrove forests still line most of Guinea-Bissau’s fringing shoreline along West Africa’s Atlantic coast, a protective green halo along the many bays and estuaries. Uniquely evolved for the ...

The unique landscape brings together forest and marine life in the form of a mangrove swamp stretching from the coast of Pará to that of the neighboring Maranhão—a staggering 679 kilometers ...

We look at and rank the four inland water bodies: mangrove swamp, frozen river, river, and swamp. Among all biomes in the game, river and swamp biomes are the ones that need more attention.