Cassava is a starchy, tuberous root, introduced to sub-Saharan Africa by Portuguese traders centuries ago. It is a nutrition ...

Martha Bekele urges the continent to repudiate a narrative that shifts responsibility away from historical emitters.

Planting billions of trees may help fight climate change, but new research shows that where trees are planted matters more ...

Renewable energy projects in Africa that depend on Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds and state-backed companies will ...

The effects of climate change are no longer a future risk for Africa. They are a present crisis. Floods are destroying infrastructure that took decades to build. Droughts are collapsing harvests and ...

Few would argue that transporting cargo from one place to the next isn’t complicated. Even during the best of times, there are (literally) so many moving parts to account for, and one tiny blip in the ...

In the fight against the climate crisis, countries are pinning great hope in reforestation projects. In a new study, ETH ...

Recent attacks in the Middle East on desalination plants, facilities that remove salt from seawater, raise the potential for ...

When Arianah Atete Kagorora sat down to write her essay, she did not set out to win a regional competition. She wanted to understand and answer one question: Why East African countries were tackling ...

Multiple recently published scientific studies all point to the increasing pace of global warming, driven by the mounting contradictions and irrationality of the capitalist system.

For east African neighbours Kenya and Somalia, the effects of climate change are worlds apart, with one country suffering drought and the other deadly flooding. On the outskirts of Baidoa, southern ...

Destroying the facilities is a violation of international law that could cause a humanitarian crisis in the most water-scare region on Earth. Powering the plants with electricity from fossil fuels ...