December 06, 2023
Africa: Climate Tipping Points Are Nearer Than You Think - Our New Report Warns of Catastrophic Risk
It's now almost inevitable that 2023 will be the warmest year ever recorded by humans, probably the warmest for at least 125,000 years. Read more »
Africa: Don't Applaud the Climate Summit's Loss and Damage Fund Deal Just Yet - It Might Not Warrant That Standing Ovation
Shortly after the opening ceremony of the 2023 United Nations climate negotiations in Dubai, delegates of nations around the world rose in a standing ovation to celebrate a… Read more »
Africa: How Agriculture Can Make The Most of One of The World's Biggest Carbon Sink, Soil
It's right under our feet. We barely notice as we go about our lives, yet it is nothing less than the largest carbon repository among all of Earth's ecosystems. This distinction is… Read more »
Africa: Rural Communities Are Being Left Behind Because of Poor Digital Infrastructure, Research Shows
In an era where businesses and households depend on the internet for everything from marketing to banking and shopping, the lack of adequate digital access can be a significant… Read more »
December 04, 2023
Africa: COP28 - With a 'Loss and Damage' Fund in Place, Protecting Climate Refugees Is More Urgent Than Ever
It has taken decades, but the complex and increasingly urgent issue of "climate mobility" has gradually become central to international climate negotiations. Read more »
November 30, 2023
Africa: COP28 - Why We Need to Break Our Addiction to Combustion
Headlines across the world this year focused on fires, including both wildfires and the use of military firepower, in various places. Read more »
Africa: COP28 Climate Summit Just Approved a 'Loss and Damage' Fund. What Does This Mean?
Day one of the COP28 climate summit saw the first big breakthrough: agreement on a "loss and damage" fund to compensate poor states for the effects of climate change. Read more »
December 05, 2023
Africa: Could Antivirals Reduce Your Risk of Long Covid? Where the Research Is Up to On Prevention and Treatment
Evidence is continuing to accumulate on the burden and frequency of chronic effects after a COVID infection, which fall under the umbrella term "long COVID". Read more »
December 04, 2023
Africa: Getting Climate Funds to Conflict Zones - A Case for Working With Armed Groups and Local Communities
Conflict-ridden and fragile countries are among the most vulnerable to climate change and least prepared to deal with it. They are largely excluded from climate adaptation… Read more »
November 29, 2023
Africa: How AI Could Reveal Secrets of Thousands of Handwritten Documents
Have you ever struggled to read what that scrawl between "carrots" and "potatoes" is on your shopping list? Soon, artificial intelligence (AI) may be able to help. Read more »
November 28, 2023
Africa: Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year - Authentic - Reflects Growing Concerns Over AI's Ability to Deceive and Dehumanize
When Merriam-Webster announced that its word of the year for 2023 was "authentic," it did so with over a month to go in the calendar year. Read more »
November 30, 2023
Africa: 'Baldur's Gate 3' Became the Surprise Hit of 2023 By Upending Conventional Wisdom About What Gives Video Games Broad Appeal
Few predicted that the smash hit video game of 2023 would feature old-school game mechanics, hours of brooding cutscenes and a vexing learning curve. Read more »
December 01, 2023
Africa: Colonized Countries Rarely Ask for Redress Over Past Wrongs - the Reasons Can Be Complex
The king of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander, apologized in July 2023 for his ancestors' role in the colonial slave trade. Read more »
November 29, 2023
Africa: ChatGPT Turns 1 - AI Chatbot's Success Says As Much About Humans As Technology
ChatGPT was launched on Nov. 30, 2022, ushering in what many have called artificial intelligence's breakout year. Within days of its release, ChatGPT went viral. Screenshots of… Read more »
November 30, 2023
Africa: Drone Fishing in South Africa Is a Danger to Sharks and May Be Unfair to Other Fishers - Study
"Drone fishing" is a relatively recent innovation in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. Some recreational anglers are using personal drones to fly baited lines into hard-to-reach… Read more »
Africa: Building African Cities That Cope With Climate Shocks - Experts Outline What It Will Take
The international climate change negotiations began almost three decades ago when many were still hesitant to accept that human activities were changing the planet. Now the… Read more »
November 29, 2023
Africa: COP28 - How Bad Is Climate Change Already and What Do We Need to Do Next to Tackle It?
As the latest UN climate change summit (COP28) gets underway in Dubai, conversations around limiting global warming to 1.5°C will confront a harsh reality. Global temperatures… Read more »
November 28, 2023
Africa: As Seas Get Warmer, Tropical Species Are Moving Further From the Equator
Climate change is causing tropical species in the ocean to move from the equator towards the poles, while temperate species recede. This mass movement of marine life, termed… Read more »
December 03, 2023
Africa: African Countries Lost Control to Foreign Mining Companies - the 3 Steps That Allowed This to Happen
Within a few years of independence, African governments asserted sovereignty over their metal and mineral resources. Prior to this, the resources were exploited by European mining… Read more »
November 29, 2023
Africa: Climate Action for Africa in 2023 - Three Big Developments
2023 is highly likely to be the hottest year ever recorded. And climate change is to blame for one-quarter of the global population being exposed to dangerous levels of extreme… Read more »
Africa: Low Emissions and Economic Survival - Countries in the Global South Aren't Getting a Fair Deal
In 2015, more than 140 countries signed up to the goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. For countries in the global south this is a huge task. On the one hand they have… Read more »
November 28, 2023
Africa: As Disasters and Heat Intensify, Can the World Meet the Urgency of the Moment At the COP28 Climate Talks?
Eight years ago, the world agreed to an ambitious target in the Paris Agreement: hold warming to 1.5°C to limit further dangerous levels of climate change. Read more »
November 27, 2023
Africa: Stones Inside Fish Ears Mark Time Like Tree Rings - And Now They're Helping Us Learn About Climate Change
As a marine biologist, I've always found it fascinating to learn about how animals adapt to their habitat. But climate change has made it more important than ever - wild animals'… Read more »
November 29, 2023
Africa: COP28 - How 7 Policies Could Help Save a Billion Lives By 2100
In a recent review of more than 180 peer-reviewed articles -- which I conducted with fellow researcher Richard Parncutt -- we found that a scientific consensus has formed around… Read more »
November 28, 2023
Africa: Umaru Shehu - Nigerian Public Health Giant Who Played a Major Role in Polio Eradication
Professor Emeritus Umaru Shehu, who died on 2 October 2023, was born in Yerwa (Maiduguri), Nigeria, in 1930. Widely regarded as one of the country's early leaders in public health… Read more »