ROVING REPORTERS: Grant-winning scientists show Africa’s environmental future is written in microbes and trees
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Dr John Paul Makumbi and Dr Olivier Jean Leonce Manzi have been named joint winners of the 2026 Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Research Grant. Their research projects, spanning soil microbes and tropical forests, explore how ecosystems can re…
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