Imagine you and your family live in a timber shack in Alaska. It is chilly up there, so you build yourself a huge log fire and pile on all the…
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Some 600,000 women and children die annually in Africa due to use of inefficient energy sources. And this is a wakeup call to governments and development partners to take urgent…
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Climate scientists have long warned of projections that show the African continent warming faster than much of the world, and a new update from Greenpeace shows that the heat is…
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What does a green recovery look like? That is the question governments around the world are considering as they decide how to align their $12tn worth of economic rescue packages…
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Today marks the end of the 11th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), nearly six months after the first cases were reported in Equateur Province. The…
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In the Winelands district of the Western Cape, one community has taken COVID-19 humanitarian relief into their own hands. Throughout lockdown, residents of the small farming community of Elsenburg outside…
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Michelle Pino is a fashion enthusiast, an artist at heart and founder of One Hundred Years – a fashion house in Kenya. Pino’s made-in-Kenya clothesline sources cotton fabrics from within…
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Lake Bogoria in Kenya’s Rift Valley region is a soda lake – extremely salty and alkaline, unable to support fish. It has deep spiritual and cultural significance for the Endorois people,…
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As Kenya goes heavy on renewable energy sources, rain is turning out to be a curse and blessing at once for the country’s green generation mix. The country’s generation mix…
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Carbon emissions from waste disposal are increasing because of the expansion of energy-from-waste incineration plants, a coalition of campaigners has warned. By 2030 the government’s push to increase incineration of…