Soil naturally absorbs carbon from the atmosphere through a process known as sequestration which not only reduce harmful greenhouse gases but also creates more fertile soil. ... Read more »
Beaufort West "has simply run out of surface water". This comes after claims were made on social media that the town had reached 'Day Zero' where no water would be available. Read more »
African participants are working hard to ensure their voices are being heard, amid fears that the so-called "Trump effect" could make matters worse for developing states. Africa is ... Read more »
From floods hitting refugee camps to shrinking lakes, Chad is suffering the impacts of climate change - but planting trees could help, writes Thomson Reuters Foundation's Inna ... Read more »
Two thousand kits from the United Kingdom to provide shelter for 140,000 people have started arriving in Somalia as drought-related displacements continue at an alarming ... Read more »
A wildfire that broke out on Sir Lowry's Pass, spread towards Gordon's Bay and covered much of Cape Town in smoke has been brought under control, though City of Cape Town Fire and ... Read more »
Cape Verde is made up of 10 islands, nine of which are inhabited, that lie about 600km west of Senegal. Almost all of the islands' 550,000 residents have access to electricity, but ... Read more »
At the beginning of the year, 5.6 million Ethiopians were in need of food aid, primarily in the south and southeast of the country. That number recently jumped to 8.5 million, ... Read more »
The cost to repair the damage caused by the storm that claimed several lives in KwaZulu-Natal could run into hundreds of millions of rands, KwaZulu-Natal MEC for human settlements ... Read more »
The 12 Apostles Hotel in Camps Bay has been evacuated as firefighters from the Table Mountain National Park, Working on Fire, Cape Town Fire Protection Services and Volunteer ... Read more »
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