Zambia: Transforming agriculture potential into reality
WORLD Bank Africa Group one executive director Andrew Bvumbe has urged Zambia to transform its agriculture potential into reality by...
Water is Precious, Fragile and Dangerous – It Can Sustain or Destroy
This very fact has been clearly stated in the Valuing Water Preamble and principles that have been on the table of the fifth round of...
Islamic finance provides Kenyans with cushion against drought
Hamara Hujale tries to keep an eye on two squirming children and a pot of simmering ugali – a white doughy dish – as she reaches for her...
Tono rice farmers fear loss of 400,000 tonnes of produce
Rice farmers at the Tono Irrigation site at Navrongo in the Upper East Region says, over four thousand metric tonnes of rice cultivated...
Report: Few resource-rich countries properly manage their natural resources
More than 80 per cent of the world's major mining, oil and gas-producing countries fail to adequately govern the way they extract and...
"Plastic pollution rivals the threat of climate change"
Our addiction to plastic packaging could be as harmful to the environment as climate change, experts have warned. The shocking warning...
Comment: Switch to electric cars will not be enough to give us clean air
If petrol and diesel cars are replaced by electric cars then this will reduce tailpipe emissions, but not non-tailpipe emissions, which...
All hell breaks loose as tundra thaws
Strange things have been happening in the frozen tundra of northern Siberia. Last August a boy died of anthrax in the remote Yamal...
'The idea is coming of age': Indigenous Australians take carbon farming to Canada
Australia’s world-leading Indigenous land management and carbon farming programs are spreading internationally, with a formal agreement...
Al Gore: 'The rich have subverted all reason'
In the ballroom of a conference centre in Denver, Colorado, 972 people from 42 countries have come together to talk about climate change....