Quest Volume 11 Number 4

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2015
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Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)
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Academy of Science of South Africa: Department of Science and Innovation
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Climate change in South Africa - how are we tackling this?: QUEST looks at how local scientists are leading the continent's research into the effects of climate change; Water, fire and large mammals: Climate change in Africa is not all about carbon dioxide - QUEST explains; Global climate change: are we to blame?: Mike Lucas asks the questions about climate change; The Hot Birds programme: understanding the risks of climate change for desert birds - Susie Cunningham discusses how climate change is affecting birds in hot regions; Stopping HIV infection in its tracks: QUEST looks at new approaches to preventing HIV infection; New species of human relative discovered in South Africa: More ground-breaking palaeoanthropology research from Wits; The build-up to UNFCCC COP 21 Xolisa Ngwadla explains the South African perspective; Waterwise: how climate will affect our water supply Mike Lucas discusses our precious water supply; Our oceans - constantly changing: Mike Lucas shows how our activities are affecting our oceans; Why tyres burst at high speed: Jan Smit dispels some myths about burst tyres; Water, air, plants and sea life: Jan Smit and Lerato Molebatsi explain the relationship; CSIR projects drastic temperature increases over Africa under climate change; Ancient Egyptian raptor mummy from South Africa yields a world first; Dung hits UCT headlines again; NASA mission reveals speed of solar wind stripping Martian atmosphere • T. rex may have been a cannibal; Why alternative medicine should be integrated into conventional healthcare; The million-year-old monkey: new evidence confirms the antiquity of fossil primate from the Dominican Republic; The most distant object in the solar system.
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