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Botswana Drought: Herds of Hippo’s Die as Lake Ngami Dries up
BOTSWANA: A hippo seeks what little respite it can from the dry, cracked mud. ‘EMOTIONALLY shattering’ photos show exhausted, parched animals draw their final breaths as their only source of water evaporates in what is said to be one of the MOST SEVERE DROUGHTS in...
Climate Change Has Already Increased Global Inequality. It Will Only Get Worse
Skinny cattle and donkeys drink from the borehole in the town of Ranerou, which hosts thousands of herders and their livestock during the dry season. Scientists have long predicted that warmer temperatures caused by climate change will have the biggest...
One Million Species Risk Extinction Due to Humans: Draft UN Report
Experts say up to a million species face extinction - some within decades - from human activity including habitat loss, over-consumption and illegal poaching. (Photo: AFP/Wikus De Wet) PARIS: Up to one million species face extinction due to human influence,...
Earth had a top 3 warmest March on record, climate agencies find
March may have been unusually cold in parts of the U.S., but globally, average temperatures ticked upward to rank as one of the top 3 warmest Marches on record, new data from climate groups in Europe, Japan and the U.S. shows. Why it matters: The new data shows that...
Company Turns Avocado Pit Waste Into Biodegradable Straws and Cutlery
Man figures out how to make bioplastic out of food waste, rather than food, making it as cheap as regular plastic. With all the single-use plastic bans coming into effect around the world, there is a demand for biodegradable alternatives. The trouble is...
South African Wonder Plant Removes More CO2 Than Amazon
Spekboom at Kuzuko Lodge. Image: Elise Kirsten Spekboom, also known as pork bush or elephant’s food, is our own indigenous South African wonder plant. Besides being edible (and high in Vitamin C), the medium-sized shrub found predominantly in the Eastern Cape is...
Cyclone Idai: Death Toll In Southern African Countries Rises To 1150
CYCLONE IDAI: The storm has killed more than 1,000 (Pic: DS) At least 1000 Mozambicans and more than 150 Zimbabweans and Malawians have lost their lives. Tropical cyclone Idai has claimed the lives of many with even more people still missing. Violent winds and...
Cyclone Idai Causes Horrifying Devastation in Mozambique and Zimbabwe
Cyclone Idai has had a "massive and horrifying" impact on Mozambique's port city of Beira, the Red Cross says. Cyclone Idai has had a "massive and horrifying" impact on Mozambique's port city of Beira, the Red Cross says. It made landfall on Thursday with winds of up...
Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize
Greta Thunberg [Photo: ccprize] Three Norwegian lawmakers nominated Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg for the Nobel Peace Prize. She has become a prominent voice in campaigns against climate change. A massive movement Freddy Andre Oevstegaard and two other...
Half Of Plant And Animal Species At Risk From Climate Change
Ancient air stored in ice core bubbles. LONDON - Up to half of plant and animal species in the world’s most naturally rich areas, such as the Amazon and the Galapagos, could face local extinction by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon emissions...
Climate Change: We have 12 years to limit catastrophe, warns UN
Urgent changes needed to cut risk of extreme heat, drought, floods and poverty, says IPCC. We have 12 years to address and limit catastrophe, warns UN. The world’s leading climate scientists have warned there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a...
Russian Islands Declare Emergency After Mass Invasion Of Polar Bears
Experts deployed to remove dozens of hungry bears besieging Novaya Zemlya. Russian environmental authorities have deployed a team of specialists to a remote Arctic region to sedate and remove dozens of hungry polar bears that have besieged the people living...
Antarctica Is Now Melting Six Times Faster Than It Was In 1979
Antarctica is melting at an unprecedented rate. Between 1979 and 2017, Antarctic ice loss increased by a factor of six, causing sea levels to rise by half an inch. That’s according to a new study recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
In Images: The Gambia Is Sinking Into The Ocean
Climate change is taking its toll in the Gambia. The rising sea is rapidly eating the Gambian coastline and is a serious threat for its capitol Banjul. Many hotels are about to be swallowed by the ocean. The first ones already fell victim to climate change. ...
This island was on the brink of disaster. Then, they planted thousands of trees
Until recently, the people living on the island of Kokota thought their forests were lost forever. The tiny Tanzanian islet measures only one square kilometer and is home to just 500 people. Situated in the Zanzibar Archipelago, the island of Kokota has become an...
David Attenborough: collapse of civilisation is on the horizon
Naturalist tells leaders at UN climate summit that fate of world is in their hands. The collapse of civilisation and the natural world is on the horizon, Sir David Attenborough has told the UN climate change summit in Poland. The naturalist was chosen to represent the...
Vanuatu wants to sue fossil fuel companies over climate change
Vanuatu says it is desperate for financial assistance to deal with extreme weather and global warming. The Republic of Vanuatu says it will explore whether it can take legal action against fossil fuel companies and countries for their role in causing climate change....
Gambia Is Very Vulnerable To Climate Change
The Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources, Lamin B.Dibba, has warned Gambians about the vulnerability of the country to Climate Change. He urged people to change their attitude in order to mitigate its effects. “It is left to us.We can...
Over 14 million trees destroyed in Italy
Heavy rain and gales lashing parts of Italy have killed at least 17 people and razed thousands of hectares of forest, destroying 14 million trees. Areas across the country have been affected by the storms this week, which created landslides in the northern regions of...
Earth’s carbon dioxide levels are likely the highest they’ve been in 15 million years
U.S. politicians still questioning whether the changing climate is attributable to humans (it is), it's quite likely that we’ve actually boosted Earth's carbon dioxide — a potent greenhouse gas — to the highest levels they’ve been in some 15 million years. The number...
Fishmeal factories in the Gambia
This is a mini documentary about the Chinese invasion of fishmeal factories in the Gambia seen through the eyes of the locals.
