November 08, 2022
West Africa: Climate Change Means Farmers in West Africa Need More Ways to Combat Pests
The link between climate change and the spread of crop pests has been established by research and evidence. Read more »
November 10, 2022
South Africa: Climate Change Affects Mosquito Behaviour. This May Make It Harder to End Malaria in South Africa
Changes in climatic factors - such as higher temperatures and increased rainfall - affect the developmental, behavioural and distribution patterns of insects like mosquitoes. These… Read more »
November 07, 2022
Africa: Climate Change Is Causing Endangered African Wild Dogs to Give Birth Later - Threatening the Survival of the Pack
Wildlife are responding and adapting to climate change in various ways. Some adaptations are more obvious. Flowering plants, for example, are blooming sooner each year in parts of… Read more »
November 06, 2022
Africa: COP27 - Which Countries Will Push to End Fossil Fuel Production? And Which Won't?
Fossil fuels have provided a crucial source of energy over the past 200 years. But they also account for 75 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, enable massive… Read more »
November 02, 2022
Africa: Who Is Responsible When Climate Change Harms the World's Poorest Countries?
You may be hearing the phrase "loss and damage" in the coming weeks as government leaders meet in Egypt for the 2022 U.N. Climate Change Conference. Read more »
November 07, 2022
Africa: Armed Conflict and Climate Change - How These Two Threats Play Out in Africa
The world is falling miserably short of reducing carbon emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, a 2015 treaty to keep global warming well below 2℃. Read more »
November 06, 2022
Africa: How Climate Change Influences the Spread of Disease - Four Essential Reads
Climate change has led to extreme weather events such as floods and drought. These events have become more frequent and more severe. Natural disasters associated with climate… Read more »
Africa: Climate Change Will Force Up to 113 Million People to Relocate Within Africa By 2050 - New Report
Adapting to a world that is warmer than today is a huge undertaking, even if the most ambitious temperature ceiling is met. Increasing climate risks mean that millions of Africans… Read more »
November 02, 2022
Nigeria: Nigeria's Deadly Conflicts Over Water and Grazing Pasture Are Escalating - Here's Why
Violence in the Sahel is escalating, killing more than 11,000 people in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso since 2012. Such conflict has emerged for a number of reasons, including… Read more »
November 03, 2022
Africa: Climate Change - the Effects of Extreme Heat On Health in Africa - 4 Essential Reads
Scientists are sounding the alarm about the extreme increases in the Earth's temperature. A new report by UNICEF warns that 2022 could be the "coldest year of the rest of our… Read more »
Africa: COP27 Explained By Experts - What Is It and Why Should I Care?
COP27 is the 27th Conference of the Parties (countries) that signed up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The convention was established at the Rio Earth… Read more »
Africa: COP27 Must Work Out How to Cut Carbon and Still Develop African Economies
Averting a climate disaster without compromising economic growth and development is a key issue for African countries. Energy production and use is the single biggest contributor… Read more »
November 02, 2022
Africa: 3 Things a Climate Scientist Wants World Leaders to Know Ahead of COP27
World leaders and climate experts are gathering for pivotal United Nations climate change talks in Egypt. Known as COP27, the conference will aim to put Earth on a path to net-zero… Read more »
November 01, 2022
Africa: The Horn of Africa Has Had Years of Drought, Yet Groundwater Supplies Are Increasing - Why?
The Horn of Africa - which includes Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and some surrounding countries - has been hit by increasingly frequent and devastating droughts. Despite this, it seems… Read more »
November 02, 2022
Africa: Loss and Damage - Who Is Responsible When Climate Change Harms the World's Poorest Countries, and What Does Compensation Look Like?
You may be hearing the phrase "loss and damage" in the coming weeks as government leaders meet in Egypt for the 2022 U.N. Climate Change Conference. Read more »
October 31, 2022
Africa: How Debt-for-Climate Swaps Can Help Solve Low-Income Countries' Fiscal and Environmental Challenges At the Same Time
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley spoke passionately to the United Nations General Assembly in September about the mounting debt many developing countries are shouldering… Read more »
October 28, 2022
Nigeria: How Floods Affect Food Security
Food insecurity is a serious, growing problem in Nigeria. It was reported that 7 out of 10 Nigerians did not have enough to eat in 2021. Read more »
October 27, 2022
Africa: Coffin? Casket? Cremation? How to Make Your Death More Environmentally Friendly #AfricaClimateCrisis
We can all agree humans need to reduce their impact on the environment. And while most of us think of this in terms of daily activities - such as eating less meat, or being… Read more »
October 26, 2022
Somalia: Four Lessons From Past Experience of Dealing With Famine
Since 1990 the world's famines have been classified as small - with the glaring exceptions of Somalia in 1991-92 and 2010-12. Now the UN's World Food Programme says that nearly… Read more »
South Africa: Crime, Covid and Climate Change - South African Tourism Faces Many Threats, but It's Resilient
South Africa's tourism industry has been rocked by the murder of a German visitor during an attempted robbery. The development resulted in negative media publicity, with a… Read more »
October 23, 2022
Nigeria: Nigeria Floods - Govt's Mismanagement of Dams Is a Major Cause
There has been severe flooding in Nigeria - the worst in a decade. Earlier this month, Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency warned of catastrophic flooding for states… Read more »
October 20, 2022
Nigeria: Nigeria's Floods Are the Worst in a Decade. Here's How People Try to Cope With the Devastation
Flooding is not unusual in Nigeria's massive, population-dense cities. But this year's floods are reportedly the country's worst in a decade. They've killed more than 600 people,… Read more »
October 19, 2022
Nigeria: Floods in Nigeria - Building Dams and Planting Trees Among Steps That Should Be Taken to Curb the Damage
Nigerians are no strangers to flooding. In some parts of the country, flooding is an annual event. But the intensity varies from one year to the next. In some years, the effects… Read more »
October 17, 2022
Africa: Towards Zero Hunger - Five Steps To Achieve Food Security for the Continent
Global food systems have been battered by overlapping crises in recent years. Key among these are the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russo-Ukraine war and extreme weather events resulting… Read more »
October 06, 2022
Africa: The Fairest Way to Tax Carbon Is to Make Air Travel More Expensive
Despite the fact that poorer people generally have lower emissions, taxes on the carbon dioxide (CO₂) our activities emit tend to affect people on low incomes more than richer… Read more »