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Virus hunters delve Gabon caves in search of next threat 7 published : 17 Dec 2020 at 09:55 7 A researcher traps bats in a net at the Zadie Caves in Gabon. Samples are taken from the mammals to see if they are hosting viruses that could jump to humans. ZADIE CAVES, Gabon: The scene looks like something out of a science fiction movie, or maybe some dystopian TV series. Six men in yellow biohazard suits clamber in suffocating heat towards a cave in the heart of the Gabonese jungle. Their quest: to unlock new knowledge on how pathogens like c...

More rubbish than seaweed By TPN/Lusa, in Renewable · 13-12-2020 10:00:00 · 1 Comments A study by researchers at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Marine and Environmental Research of the University of Porto (CIIMAR) concluded that on five beaches in the north there was more waste than sargassum (a brown seaweed). Speaking to the Lusa agency, Marcos Rubal, a researcher at the University of Porto centre, explained that initially...