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Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria
Collaboration between researchers and religious leaders led to a cut in the likelihood of early marriage by 80%.
- Mariana Lenharo
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A big-push community intervention reduced rates of child marriage by 80%
A community-wide intervention in northern Nigeria reduced rates of child marriage from 79% to 14%, showing that bundled, big-push approaches can dramatically shift entrenched behaviours.
- Isabelle Cohen
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Book Review |
The hidden lives behind China’s great Internet firewall
The country’s tightly controlled digital ecosystem is replete with human stories and acts of subtle resistance.
- Chris Stokel-Walker
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Editorial |
Making progress on global health will need high-quality evidence
Nature Health, the newest journal in the Nature Portfolio, aims to bridge the ‘implementation gap’ from research to policy and practice.
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Perspective |
A framework for addressing racial and related inequities in conservation
This Perspective proposes a new framework to support the inclusion of Black, Indigenous and people of colour in conservation initiatives.
- Moreangels M. Mbizah
- , Tanesha Allen
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Comment |
Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now
A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.
- Philip G. Pardey
- , Connie Chan-Kang
- & Hernán Muñoz
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News Feature |
The first global pandemic treaty — and the woman who made it happen
Precious Matsoso is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.
- Celeste Biever
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A place-based assessment of biodiversity intactness in sub-Saharan Africa
Regional, place-based biodiversity information is used to comprehensively map and quantify biodiversity intactness of sub-Saharan Africa to inform national and global sustainability policies and planning.
- Hayley S. Clements
- , Reinette Biggs
- & Andrew L. Skowno
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First new type of malaria treatment in decades shows promise against drug resistance
If approved, GanLum could be available within a year and a half, according to maker.
- Mariana Lenharo
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Mortality impacts of rainfall and sea-level rise in a developing megacity
High-resolution rainfall, tide and mortaility data are used to quantify the impact of rainfall and flooding on urban health in Mumbai, India, revealing an order-of-magnitude discrepency between observed and officially reported mortality impacts, with slum residents bearing most of the burden.
- Tom Bearpark
- , Ashwin Rode
- & Archana Patankar
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Editorial |
Failure is not an option for Africa’s newly launched medicines agency
The inequitable distribution of vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic was the final proof of the need for more home-grown manufacturing and regulatory capacity across Africa.
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World View |
For real climate action, empower women
In Belize, women are tackling climate change and biodiversity loss on the ground, but gender equity is needed in government, too — COP30 should address this.
- Elma Kay
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Comment |
Africa finally has its own drug-regulation agency — and it could transform the continent’s health
If it gets things right, the first major regulator of medicines to launch for 30 years could empower Africa to tackle African challenges around health and disease.
- Mwila Mulubwa
- , Leon Mutesa
- & Kelly Chibale
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Book Review |
From fossil fuels to ‘green capitalism’: the dilemmas of a just energy transition
Greening the global economy does not have to be done through unjust fuel extraction; societies can choose fairer paths to net-zero emissions.
- Sophia Kalantzakos
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Correspondence |
India and Pakistan share flood risks and must combine solutions
- Saheeb Ahmed Kayani
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Can a bold ‘social contract’ make data sharing more palatable?
Hoarding of health data is common across Africa, owing to well-founded concerns about exploitation and misuse of biomedical information. A charter that guarantees responsible data stewardship would help to allay such fears.
- Nchangwi Syntia Munung
- , Cornelius Ewuoso
- & Emile R. Chimusa
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Infrastructure deficits and informal settlements in sub-Saharan Africa
A new network approach maps every street block in sub-Saharan Africa using high-resolution building and street data, pinpointing infrastructure needs and revealing development gradients from neighbourhoods to cities and rural areas.
- Luís M. A. Bettencourt
- & Nicholas Marchio
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Editorial |
Hazardous science that helps to save and improve lives needs more support
Research into the growing environmental problem of urban gullies highlights the challenging conditions under which many socially important studies are done.
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Obituary |
David Nabarro obituary: global-health leader who fought malnutrition, malaria, Ebola and COVID-19
Persuasive physician who brought research evidence to the heart of global policy decisions.
- Anthony Costello
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Where I Work |
How I’m electrifying transportation in Tanzania
Technician Erasto Job assembles and fixes electric three-wheelers for TRí, a sustainable transportation company in Dar es Salaam.
- Nikki Forrester
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Comment |
To save lives in heatwaves, focus on how human bodies work
Strategies for heat-health preparedness should concentrate on cooling people, not just the air.
- Ollie Jay
- , Jennifer Vanos
- & Federico Tartarini
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Where I Work |
How I’m helping to develop more-resilient food systems
Geographer Bhogtoram Mawroh works with Indigenous People in Meghalaya, India, to adapt agriculture to climate change.
- Nikki Forrester
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News |
Budget brainwaves: low-cost system collects brain data outside the lab
Neuroscience initiative in India and Tanzania amasses a trove of high-quality EEG recordings from diverse populations.
- Miryam Naddaf
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Editorial |
Without science, there can be no development
A United Nations conference on financing sustainable development was a missed opportunity to fund the science needed to create a better world.
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Nature Index |
Leadership change at African journal sparks calls for bold reform
The Journal of Public Health in Africa faces a pivotal moment, and researchers say it must evolve to better serve the scientific community.
- Abdullahi Tsanni
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World View |
Missile defence won’t prevent the health crises that rock global security
As was realized after the Second World War, peace and prosperity stem from partnership and sustained investment in human development.
- Nelson Evaborhene
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Perspective |
An aspirational approach to planetary futures
The Nature Relationship Index offers a new way to measure and engage human aspirations to shape a better future for people and all life on Earth.
- Erle C. Ellis
- , Yadvinder Malhi
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How researchers are shining a light on the ‘invisible’ contributions of small-scale fishers
A huge research project is highlighting the role that small-scale fishers play in sustainability.
- Julie Gould
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Correspondence |
Trade wars could affect food security in low-income nations
- Huijie Li
- , Bingcheng Si
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Exclusive: Inside the thriving wild-animal markets that could start the next pandemic
Live-animal markets are a natural laboratory for viruses to evolve and spark deadly outbreaks, yet scientists lack support to study the risks they pose.
- Jane Qiu
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Where I Work |
I apply my aquatic-science training to empower Tanzania’s seaweed farmers
Amenipa Kyando supports coastal communities to enhance their livelihoods while protecting their environment.
- James Mitchell Crow
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Editorial |
The path for AI in poor nations does not need to be paved with billions
Researchers in low- and middle-income countries show that home-grown artificial-intelligence technologies can be developed, even without large external investments.
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How India rewrote the rules of space travel when it launched its first satellite
Fifty years ago, a spacecraft designed and built by young Indian scientists redefined what a low-income country could achieve.
- Pranav Sharma
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Where I Work |
Sowing solutions: my quest to save Kenya’s maize from a devastating invader
Henry Sila Nzioki has developed a weed-killing fungus to improve food security.
- Linda Nordling
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Correspondence |
Action needed to mitigate effects of slashing USAID
- Zaheer Allam
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Where I Work |
How I connect Colombia’s remote communities to safer water
Alba Graciela Ávila Bernal’s research focuses on power-storage technologies, but she also builds custom probes to test water quality.
- Esme Hedley
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Career Column |
How a PhD travel fellowship enriched an international cell-biology meeting
The recipients, all from African countries, were not the only beneficiaries, says Rafiou Agoro.
- Rafiou Agoro
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Outlook |
Vision: protecting and restoring a prized sense
The scale of work to improve therapies for eye disease reflects the importance people place on sight.
- Richard Hodson
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Outlook |
Artificial intelligence could boost eye care in low-income countries
Technology rivals ophthalmologists at detecting diabetic retinopathy, allowing more people to be screened globally.
- Tammy Worth
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World View |
We moved a conference halfway around the globe to avoid visa discrimination
Event organizers often overlook the visa-related difficulties that researchers in low- and middle-income countries face. This must change.
- Kara Hanson
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Can AI help beat poverty? Researchers test ways to aid the poorest people
Measuring poverty is the first step to delivering support, but it has long been a costly, time-intensive and contentious endeavour.
- Carrie Arnold
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Correspondence |
India’s ‘One Nation’ publishing agreement is transformational — but beware inequities
- Asim Biswas
- , Bappa Paramanik
- & Ashok K. Patra
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Regional and institutional trends in assessment for academic promotion
Analysis of policies for promotion criteria to full professor from academic institutions and government agencies worldwide reveals considerable variation in assessment practices, particularly between the Global North and South.
- B. H. Lim
- , C. D’Ippoliti
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Correspondence |
Africa can’t wait for pandemic preparedness
- Nicaise Ndembi
- & Moréniké Oluwátóyìn Foláyan
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Correspondence |
Remove subsidies to solve India’s fertilizer-overuse problem
- Jonathan Holland
- , Karl Behrendt
- & Bikramaditya Ghosh
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Outlook |
Why the last cases of sleeping sickness will be the hardest to eliminate
Pharmaceuticals and vector-control programmes have greatly diminished the once-widespread disease, but sustained effort will be needed to stamp out infection for good.
- Rachel Nuwer
The pros and cons of China’s health role in Africa