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The water cycle once taught to children through catchy songs and colourful cartoons, has profoundly changed and now fuels some of the world's worst natural disasters, a study has found.

Record heat across the world profoundly impacted the global water cycle in 2023, contributing to severe storms, floods, megadroughts and bushfires, according to new new research. 

The Molecular Virology group at the University of the Free State (UFS) is part of an international consortium that works towards addressing rotavirus infections on the African continent. The group, under the leadership of Prof Trudi O’Neill, is assis