First-Ever Global Erosivity Map Shows Areas Most Vulnerable To Erosion
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins...
'Lost City' Used 500 Years of Soil Erosion to Benefit Crop Farming
Researchers at the University of York working on a 700-year-old abandoned agricultural site in Tanzania have shown that soil erosion...
Research seeks solutions for climate change, hunger
Researchers at the University of Illinois are taking the basics of photosynthesis miles farther in Urbana-Champaign test plots and...
Africa’s growth lies with smallholder farmers
As the world’s population surges towards nine billion by midcentury, food production has failed to keep pace, creating rising food...
Climate Change May Shrink the World’s Fish
Warming temperatures and loss of oxygen in the sea will shrink hundreds of fish species—from tunas and groupers to salmon, thresher...
Africa faces critical loss of fertile land
In a New York Times article, “Loss of fertile land fuels ‘looming crisis’ across Africa,” Jeffrey Gettleman describes the rising crisis...
Floods in DRC, Sierra Leone linked to climate change
Deadly floods in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone have raised questions about Africa's ability to adapt to climate...
West Africa Accelerates Climate Change Learning
Recent capacity-building initiatives promoted climate change learning in Ghana and Burkina Faso, and a training workshop on national...
Two Rwandan startups finalists in $587k global green challenge
Two Rwandan startups have been named amongst the finalists of the EUR500,000 (US$587,000) Postcode Lottery Green Challenge, one of the...
Flooding to get worse in Nigeria
Earlier this year heavy rains and thunderstorms caused havoc in Lagos, Nigeria’s economic nerve centre and one of Africa’s most populous...