Start-up Ibisa has just raised $3 million for innovation and expansion in Africa and Asia. The start-up is developing technological solutions for insuring against climate change, mainly in the…
A clean-up operation has been carried out on the Congolese beach at Pointe-Noire. At least 2.6 tonnes of waste were collected from the site, which was beginning to lose its appeal.
In the Congo,…
Last month wasn’t only the hottest June by far in the observed temperature record, but marked the first-ever 12-month stretch of the Earth’s average temperature exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius of…
The Energy Inclusion Facility (EIF) and the Finnish Industrial Cooperation Fund (Finnfund) are awarding $20 million in financing to asset manager Communication & Renewable Energy Infrastructure (…
As part of its vision to promote ecological development, the Swiss foundation Biovision is launching the first edition of its Agroecological Food Futures Prize in East Africa. Until 26 July 2024, the…
As Earth’s annual average temperature pushes against the 1.5 degree Celsius limit beyond which climatologists expect the impacts of global warming to intensify, social scientists warn that humanity…
In the borderlands of Tanzania and Kenya, the “super tuskers” roam. A combination of old age, genetic pooling and prolonged protection from poaching has created a population of bull elephants with…
In Mauritania, a $17 million package from the African Development Bank (AfDB) bodes well for 22,200 households and 205 women's cooperatives that depend on agriculture for their livelihoods in rural…
Nearly 1,000 homes in informal settlements in Cape Town, South Africa, have been destroyed by gale-force winds, displacing around 4,000 people, authorities and an aid organization said as the city…
Ivory Coast, faced with waste pollution, is focusing on the circular economy to gradually eradicate it. To support this approach, Ivory Coast's Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research,…
The results of a recent survey show that Southern Sudan is home to the world's largest mammal migration. This is a major achievement for the conservation of biodiversity, at a time when flora and…
Activists are convinced a wartime campaign of resistance is the only way to highlight the existing system’s failure to meet the moment
As pro-Palestinian protesters sparked outrage scaling the roof…
The de facto ban on new onshore windfarms has been dropped by the Labour government, to the delight of environmentalists and energy experts.
The ban was caused by two footnotes to the National…
When I entered parliament back in 2010 as the first Green MP, I used every possible trick in the book to push the environment up the UK’s political agenda. In the early days, progress was agonisingly…
A long-running heatwave that has already broken records, sparked dozens of wildfires and left about 130 million people under a high-temperature threat is about to intensify enough that the National…
Perched atop blackened trees, howler monkeys survey the ashes around them. A flock of rheas treads, disoriented, in search of water. The skeletons of alligators lie lifeless and charred.
The…
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