Climate action is gaining momentum. Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, countries have intensified climate action and many have committed to reach net zero emissions by 2050, meaning that any additional carbon emissions will be offset completely by carbon emissions withdrawn from the atmosphere.
New fossil evidence reveals more about how African bush elephants’ ancient ancestors moved about a South African landscape. Gunter Nuyts/Shutterstock Charles Helm, Nelson Mandela University Hundreds of thousands of years ago, South Africa’s Cape south coast looked very different. Some of the species that roamed this area are now extinct; others evolved over the millennia […]
Protests driven by the pandemic’s economic fallout are on the rise, with potentially long-lasting economic consequences.
It’s a paradox that cynics are always willing to point out; the heir to the MFI fortune becoming a leader in forest conservation. But Paul Lister takes it all in his stride.
Hoima, Uganda – Bagyenda Anatole walked briskly under the thinning canopy cover in Bugoma Central Forest Reserve. Along the narrow path, the remnants of butchered tree trunks bore testimony to the ongoing clearing of Uganda’s largest remaining block of natural tropical woodland.
Electronic waste should be properly dismantled and recycled In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images Okunola Alabi, Federal University of Technology, Akure A new World Health Organisation report warns that pregnant women’s exposure to electronic waste raises the risk of stillbirth and premature births.
Nairobi, Kenya: Singapore City, Singapore// – To meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the world will need to raise three times more sustainable financing than it is currently investing.
Various countries across the African continent are poised to participate in the green drive as commodities such as copper, cobalt, tin, and manganese are bountiful.
Impalas walk near the elevated Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) in Nairobi National Park, Kenya. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images Tobias Nyumba, University of Nairobi Kenya is constructing a railway line that connects the coastal port of Mombasa and the interior of the country. It is expected to terminate at Malaba, a town on the border […]
Two thirds of our planet is covered by the ocean, a system that not only supports life on Earth and human wellbeing but also regulates the climate. The ocean provides oxygen, food, energy, water and raw materials.
