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Great Green Wall innovations hailed on Desertification and Drought Day
Forests News
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June 27, 2025
From food made with overlooked native plants to handbags crafted from wild grasses—and even a simple rope tool to prevent wildfires—community-driven innovation is reshaping how land restoration takes root across Africa’s drylands. These are among...
Weather experts monitor tropical wave with 80% chance of formation
Breaking Belize News
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August 10, 2024
Views: 0 Posted: Saturday, August 10, 2024. 9:37 am CST. By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: Weather experts at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) are currently monitoring a tropical wave located roughly midway between the Cabo Verde Islands and the Lesser...
Sailing: Boris Herrmann deploys weather buoy as part of Vendée Globe scientific mission
Monaco Life
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November 20, 2024
Just over a week into his 2024/25 Vendée Globe adventure, Malizia Seaexplorer captain Boris Herrmann has deployed a weather buoy off Cabo Verde as part of his commitment to gathering valuable scientific information from remote parts of the oceans...
Why the world's perception is costing Africa its future
African Business
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June 27, 2025
Africa is rich. Rich in people, resources, ideas, and potential. Yet many of its countries are trapped in a financial paradox: while global investors chase higher returns, African countries face some of the highest borrowing costs. Why does this...
The Impact Of Air Pollution On Women’s Reproductive Health: A Gendered Study Of Severe AQI
Feminism in India
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November 28, 2024
With the Air Quality Index of Delhi-NCR oscillating between hazardous and very poor, the masked faces return to public spaces inhaling particulate matter. Delhi authorities have imposed GAP 4, restricting the construction and movement of...
ECOWAS climate centre uses COP29 to show its regional impact
University World News
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CAMEROON The West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use, WASCAL, a regional body that offers capacity-building and research-focused services in the fight against climate change, has showcased its work – and the...
US musician Grey Filastine’s Arka Kinari to dock in Kochi in 2025, spreading climate change awareness
Onmanorama
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November 27, 2024
Kochi: The Arka Kinari – a 70-tonne boat that has become the symbol of an artist couple’s convictions about their life and art – will touch the shores of Kochi next year. Since the vessel started its voyage with US-based musician Grey Filastine...
IUCN hosts IslandPlas workshop in Mauritius to help tackle…
IUCN
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Ébène, Mauritius, 09 June 2025 – The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) hosted the national IslandPlas inception workshop on April 24, 2025, in Ebène, Mauritius. The event gathered key stakeholders from Mauritius to help address...
In numbers: The state of the climate in 2024
Climate Home News
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November 11, 2024
At the start of COP29, new reports warn that 2024 is set to be the hottest year on record as global warming temporarily tops 1.5C and climate disasters surge It’s COP season again and as governments, businesses and green groups gather in...
Microplastics are sickening and killing wildlife, disrupting Earth systems
Mongabay
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November 21, 2024
Animals across the spectrum of life are eating, breathing and ingesting plastics that leach toxic chemicals and have been shown to alter the function of organs and even cells in humans. Petroleum products — mostly oil and natural gas — are...
€68.5 million spent on international climate financing
The Portugal News
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The numbers were updated by the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MAE) in a statement to coincide with the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP29), which ends on the 22nd. Of the 68.5 million, 12 million are in the conversion of Cape...
COP29: Six key reasons why international climate finance is a ‘wild west’
Eco-Business
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November 15, 2024
At the COP29 climate summit, nations must decide on a new global goal to replace the existing target of US$100 billion each year.Delivering this money is widely viewed as important for helping vulnerable nations in the global south and maintaining...
Sailing in a hurricane: How I escaped Hurricane Beryl
Practical Boat Owner
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June 26, 2025
"Sail south, now!": Ben Williams recalls narrowly escaping Hurricane Beryl as a novice sailor aboard his new 40ft catamaran. When I bought my first boat, I didn’t imagine that I’d soon be sailing in a hurricane, writes Ben Williams. The anchorage...
World on track for hottest year ever as carbon pollution hits record levels
Yale Climate Connections - Connecticut
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November 13, 2024
October 2024 was Earth’s second-hottest October on record, according to an analysis of global data going back to 1850, NASA and NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information reported November 13. The month fell just 0.05 degree Celsius...
‘National Carrier Will Buoy Tourism Development in Nigeria’
This Day
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June 27, 2025
Stories by Chinedu Eze Travel and aviation experts have declared that for Nigeria to realise its full potential in tourism, it must establish a national carrier to buoy the sector. The experts spoke at the just concluded Aviation Summit 2025...
Domestic resource mobilisation for sustainable development
The Standard
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Examples of successful cases in other low-income regions reveal that high domestic savings are necessary for high investment and growth. Domestic resource mobilisation refers to generating savings and taxes from domestic resources and allocating...
Satellites capture an incredibly massive Saharan dust storm crossing the Atlantic Ocean
Earth.com
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On May 7, 2025, satellites spotted something huge. A dense plume of Saharan dust blew off the west coast of Africa. It stretched across the Atlantic Ocean, covering about 150,000 square kilometers (57,915 square miles). The Copernicus Sentinel-3...
TUI Group Expands African Hotel Portfolio
Rus Tourism News
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June 26, 2025
TUI Group’s expansion of its hotel portfolio across Africa marks a bold commitment to growing its footprint in the continent’s dynamic hospitality industry. With a diverse lineup of 12 leisure hotel brands, TUI is offering travelers unique ways to...
Multi-nation teamwork key to reducing environmental conflicts: Vivian and Green Group ministers
The Straits Times
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November 12, 2024
SINGAPORE - Effective management of natural resources across national borders will help to reduce resource scarcity and enable cooperation, thus reducing the risk of conflict between countries. This was a key message from a Nov 11 statement by...
Olukoyede Seeks Enhanced Inter-Agency Collaboration Against Trans-Border Crimes
Oriental News Nigeria
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June 26, 2025
Tunde Bakare The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede has called for enhanced inter-agency collaboration in the fight against transnational crimes among the member states of West and Central...