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20 07 2024 | 09:40

24 dead, houses submerged in water… Abidjan and the ritual of flooding

Once again, the school holiday period is not looking good for many households in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The cause is the torrential rain that is battering several towns, resulting in devastating and…

20 07 2024 | 09:38

Climate insurtech Ibisa raises $3m to offer its solutions in Africa

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…

20 07 2024 | 09:37

CONGO: Cleared of waste, Pointe-Noire beach regains its appeal

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,…

20 07 2024 | 09:37

Average Global Temperature Has Warmed 1.5 Degrees Celsius Above Pre-industrial Levels for 12 Months in a Row

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…

20 07 2024 | 09:36

South Sudan obtains $20m to solarise its telecommunications towers

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 (…

20 07 2024 | 09:35

AFRICA: in 2024, Agroecological Food Prize will be awarded to three food innovations

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…

20 07 2024 | 09:35

With the World Stumbling Past 1.5 Degrees of Warming, Scientists Warn Climate Shocks Could Trigger Unrest and Authoritarian Backlash

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…

20 07 2024 | 09:33

Trophy hunter killings spark fierce battle over the future of super tusker elephants

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…

20 07 2024 | 09:33

17 million from the AfDB will change everything for rural women farmers in Mauritania

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…

20 07 2024 | 09:30

South Africa : Nearly 1,000 homes in Cape Town destroyed by storms

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…

20 07 2024 | 09:29

Ivory Coast steps up the pace of the circular economy with an innovation laboratory

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,…

20 07 2024 | 09:29

South Sudan records the world’s largest mammal migration

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…

20 07 2024 | 09:28

Climate protesters won’t be deterred by fines, jail or political mixed messages on the environment

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…

20 07 2024 | 09:21

Labour lifts Tories’ ‘absurd’ ban on onshore windfarms

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…

20 07 2024 | 09:16

After asking ‘What about the climate?’ for 14 years, I’m standing down as an MP. But I have reasons to be hopeful

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…