Brazil continues to break records for all the wrong reasons as it faces its deadliest episode of pandemic yet, amid an escalating political crisis. More than 3780 covid-19 deaths were recorded on 30 March, six days after country 300 000th life lost illness. At least 60 000 Brazilians died with in March more transmissible variant known P.1 spread across country. A flurry high profile resignati...

Freshwater habitats worldwide are experiencing many threats from environmental and anthropogenic sources, affecting biodiversity ecosystem functioning. In Africa, particularly in Mediterranean climate zones, rapid human population growth is predicted to have great impact on natural besides naturally occurring events such as unpredictable drought frequency severity. Here, we analyze the potentia...