Rice is a staple diet across much of the world with billions of people depending on it for their daily sustenance. Yet wet rice cultivation is not without grave environmental…
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Governments accountable for 40% of the world’s coastlines have pledged to stop the flow of plastic pollution into the oceans, restore declining fish populations, and end overfishing in the next decade. On…
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Crocodiles are not Sneha Shahi’s favourite animal, but every time she sees one now she smiles. And she sees plenty. Sneha led a campaign to clean up the filthy river,…
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How can the world recover from the coronavirus pandemic while also addressing climate change and biodiversity loss? I am humbled to have been a speaker at a live webcast convened…
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Over nine months into COVID-19 outbreak in Nigeria, there are concerns about how well the country has managed the pandemic. Adejuwon Soyinka, from The Conversation Africa, asked Dr Doyin Odubanjo,…
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A declaration of intent has just been signed between the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). These two major players in the renewable energy sector…
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The top plastic polluters – Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestlé – have been accused of “zero progress” on reducing plastic waste. It’s the third consecutive year that Coca-Cola is ranked #1 and the other companies…
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Sixty years after the first nuclear weapons tests were conducted in Africa, many countries on continent are exploring how nuclear energy could be used for socio-economic development. Seventeen African states…
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Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi, used to be known as the “Green City in the Sun” for its lush environment. There have been however recently been a lot of changes to Nairobi’s land…
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In the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 19th century English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge warned of a world where there was “water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink”. For…