LIBYA – SOMALIA AT THE GATES

A Crisis of Humanitarianism: Refugees at the Gates of Europe

Having initially welcomed more than a million refugees and forced migrants into Europe between 2015 and 2016, the European Union’s (EU’s) policy has shifted toward externalising migration control to Turkey and Northern Africa. This goes against the spirit of international conventions aiming to protect vulnerable populations, yet there is widespread indifference toward t...

Trypanosomes at the gates.

L ike many colleagues, I sometimes thought I'd never see the day when three small parasites would be so celebrated. After all, why should people outside of the small cohort of dedicated scientists and sponsors pay any attention to these " Tritryps " —Trypanosoma brucei, Trypanosoma cruzi, and Leishmania major— whose genomes appear in this issue of Science? These three motile, unicellular, nucle...

Artificial intelligence at the gates of dawn?

In recent years, there have been significant achievements in different areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) which made it to the headlines. After Deep Blue was the first computer program winning against a ruling world champion of chess in 1997, which was a milestone in the history of AI, the Mars Rover missions started in the early 2000s for which intelligent autonomous planning and control is...

Panel 9 Are There Barbarians at the Gates of Information Systems?

Mercury pollution for marine environment at Farwa Island, Libya

BACKGROUND Farwa is an Island in Libya receives petrochemical wastes generated from General Company of Chemical Industries (GCCI) since more than 40 years. AIM The present work aimed to determine the concentrations of mercury (Hg(+2)) in fish, marine plants and sediment collected from Farwa lagoon to evaluate effect of industrial wastewater from GCCI on the marine environment. METHODS Hundr...