Ghanaian environmental activist Chibeze Ezekiel, who successfully campaigned to stop a coal power plant in his country, discusses the most pressing environmental challenges facing ... Read more »
The global climate emergency presents unprecedented challenges, but also the opportunity for coordinated action and change that can address social inequalities and ensure a ... Read more »
The goal of the Paris Agreement was to limit the global change in temperatures to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. That goal now seems highly unlikely some experts suggest. The ... Read more »
Turkish power producing firm Karpowership, which uses off-shore ships as gas power plants, has South Africa looking to the firm to help solve the nation's national lo Read more »
Water from the Atlantic Ocean has destroyed several hundred homes and buildings along parts of Cameroon's 400-kilometre coast. Officials have temporarily suspended fishing and ... Read more »
Climate change is disrupting the natural water cycle, causing more extreme weather events like floods and droughts. These events are displacing millions of people and negatively ... Read more »
The United States this month holds the rotating presidency of the United Nations (UN) Security Council. As she occupies the chair, the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thoman ... Read more »
Malaria-carrying mosquitoes will, and are already moving to new habitats as the earth warms up due to climate change. They are expected to breed faster and bite more often. As a ... Read more »
Kenyan lawyers say the government has a case to answer over the recent decision to overturn a six-year ban on logging in the country's vulnerable forest areas, writes Melissa Britz ... Read more »
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is working closely with the Ministry of Health in the South Sudan to manage a suspected disease outbreak, ... Read more »
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