Cello player John Mark Rozendaal is detained by NYPD on Thursday for criminal contempt outside Citibank’s global headquarters. Photograph: Stephanie Keith 100584/Getty Images
A 63-year-old climate…
The Zimbabwean government is racing against time to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 7: affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030. However, the race…
Residents wait to collect food in containers from a soup kitchen in Omdurman, Sudan March 11, 2024. Nearly five million people in the country are close to famine as Sudan's civil war passes the one-…
The global network of undersea cables that powers the internet is under increasing threat. Illustration: Stuart Gregory/Getty Images
It was the opening days of 2022, in the aftermath of a huge…
Nigeria's daily oil production for July increased to 1.61 million barrels per day.
The country maintains its position as Africa's top crude oil producer.
Efforts are being made to optimize output…
Last year’s litter survey found an average of one plastic bag every 100 metres, compared with five every 100 metres in 2014. Photograph: mauritius images GmbH/Alamy
The number of plastic bags washed…
Beach parasols at Madonna del Ponte on the Adriatic coast near Fano. Photograph: imageBROKER/Shutterstock
Almost every morning, Daniele Montini and his wife, Alfreda, take a stroll in the shallow…
DR Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi speaks during a press conference in Paris, France on April 30, 2024. PHOTO | REUTERS
Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi says his Kenya counterpart William…
The French group Veolia has reached an agreement with the Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries (NORFUND) to set up an investment platform in Africa. This partnership will support the…
The level of representation of women within the leadership of African tech startups has increased over the last year, but there is plenty of work to be done before true gender equality exists in…
Nigeria's oil sector has been plagued by profiteering, theft and under-investment. Can the new $20bn Dangote refinery and ending expensive fuel subsidies help to transform the industry - and the…
South Africa's first climate change law has just been signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa. It should set South Africans on the path to economic and environmental resilience.
Barely a month…
Developing technologies to make the world's agricultural and food industries more sustainable, including in Africa. This is what the 2024 edition of the AgVenture competition, recently launched by…
Heavy rains and floods have affected several parts of India in recent weeks, killing scores of people and displacing thousands of others.
Floods are not uncommon in the country - or South Asia - at…
Repeating false and sceptical claims about climate science makes them seem more credible – including to people who accept the science and are alarmed by the climate crisis – new research has found.…
“If Antarctica were music, it would be Mozart,” the Australian broadcaster Andrew Denton once wrote, after one of his many (at least seven) trips to the continent. “Art, and it would be Michelangelo…
In its pomp during the 1970s, Ardersier port near Inverness was a behemoth of Scottish industry. During the North Sea oil and gas boom, thousands worked on one of the largest rig construction sites…
A sign warns tourists of extreme heat in Death Valley national park in July in California. Photograph: Daniel Jacobi II/AP
Earth’s string of 13 straight months with a new average heat record came to…
A single arched concrete block juts out of a field in Senegal where R&B singer Akon first laid the foundation stone for his $6 billion metropolis four years ago.
The West African nation granted…
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