UN launches $9 million food security project
The United Nations ( UN ) on Tuesday launched a nine million-dollar food security project in Kaduna State to improve the livelihood of...
SA Photographer Captures 10 Years Of Floods In 'Drowning World'
South Africa-born photographer Gideon Mendel has photographed flood zones around the world for the past 10 years, but photographing...
10 Renewable Energy Start Ups in Africa
Africa has an immense energy crisis. In a continent with a population of close to 1 billion, over 625 million people are without power....
Water Conferences Focus on Gender, Food and Urban Resilience
Water professionals and leaders discussed how principles for managing and governing water can be implemented in relation to food security...
How nuclear can support green applications for a sustainable SA
We often hear about next generation nuclear power plants under development and construction worldwide. These nuclear power plants are...
A recipe to end hunger: Food policies that adapt to climate change
In our age of conspicuous consumption and excess, it frightens us to know that one out of nine people – or 815 million children, women...
Substantial investment to tackle challenges of African vector-borne plant diseases
The University of Bristol has been awarded £2 million to lead a major new project that aims to tackle the devastation caused by...
Amazon forest fires pushing climate change ‘beyond human control’
As in many parts of the world, the climate of the Amazon is undergoing dramatic changes. Droughts and floods happen more often, as well...
Mauritius' President Brings Lessons From Science to Her Office
President Ameenah Firdaus Gurib-Fakim of Mauritius is part of an exclusive club of women leading African nations. The club has just three...
Can Miss Earth SA clean up globally?
Irini Moutzouris has been Miss Earth South Africa for less than a month and she has already been tasked with a mammoth duty. The...