A 5-point plan to addressing climate change and protecting the planet

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A 5-point plan to addressing climate change and protecting the planet

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We Don't Have To Halt Climate Action To Fight Racism

There’s just one problem: This new commitment to Black people often seems to come with an assumption that the fight for climate justice has to

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Africa: Women and Children Will Pay For This Pandemic – Unless We Act

Resources to deal with the pandemic are often diverted from women’s health services, with lasting effects on their children, their families, and their

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Rwanda: Inside the Country's 10 Multi-Billion Dollar Green Projects

Rwanda recently submitted its new national climate plan dubbed "Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)" to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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Kenya floods uproot families, disrupt fishing, farming

Grandmother Millicent Agata’s small farm has disappeared entirely under the floodwaters of a swollen Lake Victoria, forcing her family to join tens of thousands of other Kenyans seeking shelter from the worst floods in three

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Major mangrove restoration project coming for Clarendon

As countries look towards a post-COVID-19 future and consider options for supporting economic, environmental and social sustainability, plans are under way for the ‘Blue Carbon Restoration in southern Clarendon, Jamaica’ project, which will seek to restore over 1,000 hectares of degraded mangrove

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Africa: Why the World Needs to Ensure Wild Species Are Used Sustainably

Recognising the value of wild species will both support rural livelihoods and provide important incentives for their sustainable

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LETTERS: How to best address the water challenge

The report further predicts that the situation could get worse as climate change will affect availability, quality and quantity of water negatively impacting the water and sanitation sector for billions of people all over the

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Africa: 'Earth School' Gives Students in Lockdown a Closeup Look At Nature

With the coronavirus pandemic disrupting education worldwide, Earth School sought to bring together compelling and interactive resources for learning about nature and the environment on a single global

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Soil Erosion in Africa

Soil erosion in Africa threatens food and fuel supplies and can contribute to climate change. For over a century, governments and aid organizations have tried to combat soil erosion in Africa, often with limited effect. So where do things stand in 2015, the International Year of the

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PM makes changes at economic growth and job creation ministry

Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday made further changes to ministerial arrangements in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job

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Zimbabwe: Farmers Urged to De-Stock

Last year, farmers lost over 50 000 cattle to drought and expectations are high that more cattle could be lost this year if farmers do not take heed of advice to climate-proof the sector through different measures such as de-stocking, growing fodder crops, hay baling and conserving

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Meteorological agency calls for action to avert mudslide disasters in Freetown

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SEBUNYA: Where is conservation in the East Africa budget

The allocations to conservation (tourism, wildlife and environment) averaged at 1.4 per cent (Kenya), 1.7 per cent (Uganda), 3.8 per cent (Rwanda) and one per cent (Tanzania) of Total Development

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How climate impacts prevent poor households to achieve resilience

IN the ever-unfolding climate change matrices, poor households are at the centre of interacting with climate vices and challenges hence they can hardly count

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Kenya coronavirus: Tally hits 1,471 after record 123 new cases

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Mapungubwe - African Iron Age Polity in South Africa

Mapungubwe is an African Middle to Later Iron Age site (AD 900-1300), located in the Mapungubwe National Park, in the Shashe-Limpopo river basin, Limpopo province of South Africa, adjacent to both Zimbabwe and Botswana. A stratified population is in evidence at the site, with elites residing at the

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Africa's Youth Scholars Harvest Ideas On the Business of Agriculture

Like: Adewale, Alleluyanatha and Gilberthe are just three of the 80 young African scholars that are tackling the business of agriculture through the innovativeness and freshness that comes with youth -- while obtaining their masters or doctoral degrees in the process. He has long championed the

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Human rights strategies of governance

Without a doubt, that policy framework must be ‘human rights strategies of

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Biden Formally Clinches Democratic Presidential Nomination | Afro

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Kenya: President Kenyatta Unveils Sh53.7bn Economic Stimulus Programme

President Uhuru Kenyatta has unveiled a massive stimulus programme to jump-start the country's economy by pumping Sh53.7 billion into various

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How Some Mississippi Teens Are Saving Their Town From Climate Change

Their tiny, rural town of just over 1,000 people suffers from severe flooding, made worse by climate

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Amazon rainforest faces fire threat—again

Institute alerts for evidence of soil changes in the Amazon show areas that have been deforested, damaged by logging and show signs of burning or mining, as well as plant degradation from February 2016 to June 2020 in the Brazilian Legal

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READ: Former President Barack Obama's 'Graduate Together' speech | The Atlanta Voice

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Africa: Agroecology Strengthens Farmers' Resilience but Highly Underfunded in Africa

Nairobi — With just a quarter of an acre of land in Kesses near Kenya's Eldoret town in the Rift Valley region, Samson Tanui is practising agroecology and his permaculture unit has become the centre of attraction for farmers from near and afar amid food shortages during the current COVID-19

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East Africa: EAC to Enhance Water Resources Management

FIVE East African Community (EAC), member countries are to benefit from the Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Program (NELSAP)'s establishment of a hydrological monitoring network of

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World Bank lends Kenya Sh4.5bn for locusts fight

World Bank lends Kenya Sh4.5bn for locusts fight

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Cyclone kills 22 in India, Bangladesh

At least 22 people died as the fiercest cyclone to hit parts of Bangladesh and eastern India this century sent trees flying and flattened houses, with millions crammed into shelters despite the risk of

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Africa: COVID-19 Recovery Is a Chance to Improve the African Food System

Even before the COVID-19 crisis, the African food system was

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MBUGUA: Inequality is a big knee on the necks of Kenya’s poor

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