One of the main problems with plastics is that although we may only need them fleetingly - seconds in the case of microbeads in personal care products, or minutes as in plastic grocery bags - they stick around for hundreds of years...
John Meeker 21 hours ago
Deep in the rainforest in a northern corner of the Republic of Congo, some of the most sophisticated monitoring of animal sounds on Earth is taking place...
Jennifer Langston 2 days ago
The translocation of wild animals is becoming an increasingly important conservation strategy...
Matt Hayward 7 Aug 2018
Global crypto-marketplace Paxful, together with its implementation partner NPO Zam Zam Water, has launched #BuiltWithBitcoin...
6 Aug 2018
President of PAWO Assetou Koite says Africa must recognise and honour the contribution of women to the decolonisation of the continent...
1 Aug 2018
It's just over three years since a lion was shot in Zimbabwe by Walter Palmer, a dentist from Minnesota in the US, in a drama that became known as "Cecilgate"...
Muchazondida Mkono 31 Jul 2018
Heat Island Limited is the African winner of the Cities for our Future competition...
25 Jul 2018
From a water perspective, we live in a 'world of Cape Towns'...
Dhesigen Naidoo 20 Jul 2018
Africa's new generation of leaders could learn a thing or two about how to become great, but it takes much more to become an extraordinary leader like Nelson Mandela...
Rudo Kwaramba-Kayombo 19 Jul 2018
"Let me tell you what I believe. I believe in Nelson Mandela's vision, I believe in a vision shared by Gandhi and King..."
18 Jul 2018
South African engineers and those from other sub-Saharan countries are invited to enter the fifth edition...
16 Jul 2018
High quality data crucial for success of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa, says the Economic Commission for Africa...
13 Jul 2018
Fab labs serve at the same time as production, creation and prototyping workshops, hands-on training spaces and facilitators of social ties...
Stéphanie Leyronas, Gwenael Prié, and Isabelle Lio 9 Jul 2018
Dana Omran has been appointed managing director for Africa at 100 Resilient Cities (100RC)...
28 Jun 2018
Hogan Lovells has launched its new report, Africa and Renewables: Wholesale change or short term surge?...
25 Jun 2018
It's difficult as an individual, a group or a nation to know how to act when faced with climate change problems...
Alice McClure and Gina Ziervogel 25 Jun 2018
Current understanding of plant physiology suggests that major cereal crops - particularly rice and wheat - respond to higher CO2 concentrations by synthesising more carbohydrates (starches and sugars) and less protein, and by reducing the quantity of minerals in their grains...
Kristie Ebi 13 Jun 2018
Driven in part by an increase in conflicts and climate-induced disasters, the number of child labourers in agriculture worldwide has increased substantially from 98 million to 108 million since 2012 after more than a decade of continuous decline, according to the latest estimates...
13 Jun 2018
The United Nations Environment and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have released a report outlining the state of waste management in Africa...
12 Jun 2018
"We are working with countries to ready them to take climate action in the near future. This includes enabling the poorest families to produce food while adopting low-emission systems and building their climate resilience."
12 Jun 2018
