Banana bunching associated with climatic and nutritional variations

Selection for Earlier Flowering Crop Associated with Climatic Variations in the Sahel

Climate changes will have an impact on food production and will require costly adaptive responses. Adapting to a changing environment will be particularly challenging in sub-Saharan Africa where climate change is expected to have a major impact. However, one important phenomenon that is often overlooked and is poorly documented is the ability of agro-systems to rapidly adapt to environmental va...

Formulation and nutritional evaluation of weaning food processed from cooking banana, supplemented with cowpea and peanut

The possibility of processing a ready-to-eat nutrient-rich weaning food (WF) for infants within the age group of 0.5-0.9 years from cooking banana fortified with popular and affordable legumes (cowpea and peanut) was investigated with the aid of computer software and available technology in Nigeria. A composite of 47% cowpea, 40% ripe banana, and 13% peanut was processed, analyzed to compare th...

COVID-19: The potential role of nutritional deficiencies, global climatic changes, and immune system dysfunction

Climatic variability and morbidity and mortality associated with particulate matter

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study has been to analyze whether fine particulate matter (PM2.5), as well as its synergistic effect with maximum temperature, humidity, and seasons, is associated with morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular diseases. METHODS This is an ecological study of time series. We have used as outcomes the daily death and hospitalization records of adults aged 45 y...

Continental pleistocene climatic variations from speleothem age and isotopic data.

Speleothems from continental North American caves have been dated by means of the (230)Th/(234)U method. Oxygen isotopic variations in the dated samples and phases of speleothem deposition can be interpreted in terms of climatic change. A glacial chronology constructed from the age and isotopic data lends support to the astronomical theory of climatic change.