Sub-Saharan Africa

Migratory birds, such because the frigate chicken, undertake long-distance journeys the place sleep turns into a important problem. Frigate birds can sleep whereas flying, a conduct noticed by means of EEG research, revealing their use of uni-hemispheric slow-wave sleep. This permits one mind hemisphere to relaxation whereas the opposite stays alert, typically preserving one eye open to watch the surroundings. Regardless of sleeping throughout migration, frigate birds spend lower than 3% of their time in sleep, preferring to remain awake. They get well misplaced sleep as soon as they attain land. REM sleep, essential for all vertebrates, is considerably shorter throughout flight, lasting solely seconds. Completely different migratory birds have various sleep methods, from temporary naps to...

A migration disaster - which peaked in 2015 because of the continued Syrian conflict - is now being compounded by an inflow of refugees fleeing the Taliban in Afghanistan, conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa and the collapse of the Lebanese economic system. As the principle transit path to Europe, Turkey already hosts extra refugees than some other nation on this planet and President Erdogan has seemingly run out of persistence. However Europe has hardened its borders and refugees accuse EU member states of breaking worldwide regulation of their try to preserve them out. Now thousands and thousands of refugees are discovering themselves within the middle of a political chess match that places their lives in additional hazard. This phase is from the present ‘VICE’, initially aired in Dec 2...

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