February 23
Ghana: Ghana's Cities Are Getting Hotter - They Need More Trees to Keep Them Cool
Ghana's cities are expanding at a breathtaking pace. From Madina to Cape Coast, from Sekondi-Takoradi to Tamale, concrete infrastructure are rising, wetlands are shrinking, and… Read more »
February 22
Africa: Killer Beetles in the Baobabs - Researcher Warns of Risk to African Trees
Baobabs aren't supposed to fall. They can live for up to 2,500 years. Famous for their resilience, these huge trees have stood tall across Africa, weathering droughts and winds… Read more »
South Africa: Invasive Mesquite Plants Do More Than Deplete Water Reserves - New Research in South Africa Shows They Damage Soil Too
Mesquite (Neltuma juliflora), a woody plant native to parts of South America, was introduced into South Africa's drylands in the 1880s with good intentions. Read more »
February 16
Africa: Economists and Environmental Scientists See the World Differently - Here's Why That Matters
Imagine someone has chronic pain. One doctor focuses on the body part that hurts and keeps trying to fix that single symptom. Another uses a more comprehensive brain-body approach… Read more »
February 15
Africa: Climate Change Could Expose 1.1 Billion People to Hunger By 2100 (But There's Good News Too) - AI Modelling Study
More than 295 million people globally experienced hunger and starvation in 2025 because of conflict, displacement, climate change and economic disasters. Read more »
February 12
South Africa: Water in the Dams, but South Africa's Taps Are Dry - Essential Reads On a History of Bad Management
It's become a common refrain in South Africa: there's no drought, dams and reservoirs are full, but the taps are dry. Read more »
February 11
South Africa: Cape Town's Wildflowers Are a World Treasure - Six Insights From a New Checklist
Cape Town, in South Africa, is famous for its dramatic mountains and coastline, but its greatest treasure lies in the plants that carpet its slopes and valleys. Table Mountain… Read more »
February 09
Africa: African Climate Science-Policy Has a Serious Blind Spot - the Slowing Atlantic Circulation
The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularised the devastating effects of sudden climate change on planet Earth. The plot dramatises the… Read more »
February 08
Mozambique: Mozambique Floods - Why the Most Vulnerable Keep Paying the Highest Price
When floods submerged parts of Mozambique after heavy rains in 2000, a baby girl was born in a tree, where her mother clung as the Limpopo river waters rose. The baby was nicknamed… Read more »
Africa: Heat With No End - Climate Model Sets Out an Unbearable Future for Parts of Africa
People often think of a heatwave as a temporary event, a brutal week of sun that eventually breaks with a cool breeze. But as the climate changes globally, in parts of Africa, that… Read more »
February 05
Southern Africa: A Giant Star Is Changing Before Our Eyes and Astronomers Are Watching in Real Time
For decades, astronomers have been watching WOH G64, an enormous heavyweight star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy visible with the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere.… Read more »
February 04
Cameroon: Anti-Poverty Programmes Can Change How People See the State and Each Other
When floodwaters washed away Woudou Oumar's home in northern Cameroon, he and his family lost not only shelter but hope. Then a government-supported cash transfer arrived. "The… Read more »
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leoneans Who Live Off the Sea Don't Trust Farmed Fish - but Wild Fish Are in Decline
At dawn in Tombo, one of Sierra Leone's largest fishing towns, small-scale fishers begin landing fish from the sea. A portion of the catch is sold at the landing sites, while the… Read more »
Africa: Grazing and Digging Put Some Herbivores At Greater Risk From Toxic Elements in Soil - New Research
If you've watched a giraffe browsing in the tree canopy, a white rhino meandering across open grassland or a warthog shuffling around on its knees in South Africa's Kalahari… Read more »
Zambia: Zambia's Farmers Are Working in Dangerous Heat - How They Can Protect Themselves
Farming is central to life in Zambia, with about 60% of the country's labour force relying on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihood or income. Seasonal rains shape planting and… Read more »
February 03
South Africa: Cape Town Project Tests What Hydroponic Farming Can Do in Urban Spaces
Imagine a world where fresh vegetables and herbs sprout in the heart of our cities without the need for sprawling farms. Read more »
January 27
Africa: Great White Sharks Grow a Whole New Kind of Tooth for Slicing Bone As They Age
A great white shark is a masterwork of evolutionary engineering. These beautiful predators glide effortlessly through the water, each slow, deliberate sweep of the powerful tail… Read more »
January 30
South Africa: Fossil Hunters Find a New Dinosaur Track Site On South Africa's Coast - the Youngest So Far
Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs. But, about 182 million years ago, a huge eruption of… Read more »
January 28
East Africa: Tanzania Is Losing Fertile Land to Soil Erosion
Across large parts of northern Tanzania, gully erosion - soil erosion caused by flowing water - is cutting deep scars through fertile farmland, grazing areas, roads and even… Read more »
West Africa: Indigenous Trees Might Be the Secret to Climate Resilient Dairy Farming in Benin, Says This New Study
In the drylands of Benin, west Africa, livestock farming is under growing pressure. Read more »
South Africa: South Africa's Floods Turned Deadly Because Limpopo Wasn't Prepared
Limpopo, in northern South Africa, home to 6.6 million people, several large mines and the Kruger National Park (one of Africa's largest game reserves), experienced unusually… Read more »
January 27
Namibia: Donkeys Are a Common Sight in Northern Namibia
Donkeys are an unassuming yet ubiquitous presence in northern Namibia. They traverse sandy village roads, pull carts stacked with firewood, and graze freely along the northern edge… Read more »
January 26
Kenya: Climate Change Is Hurting Kenyan Women Working in Coastal Tourism - They Explain How
I returned home to Kenya's coast after months of winter in Germany, and the heat felt extreme. Temperatures rose past 35°C by midday under the blazing sun of Kilifi, a tourism… Read more »
January 25
Nigeria: Nigerian Farmers Talk About How Climate Change Is Affecting Staple Food Crops - and What Can Help
In Nigeria, agriculture contributes about 40% to national gross domestic product and supports the livelihoods of about 60% of the population. Finding ways to farm through climate… Read more »
January 21
Southern Africa: Bats, Bushbabies and Aardvark Edge Closer to Extinction in Southern Africa
A new list of threatened mammals in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini shows that 11 more species have edged closer to extinction since 2016. Read more »
