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A farmer works with his tractor in front of the Kusile Power Station located in eMalahleni. In Gauteng province residents can sometimes smell the pollution coming from this direction.
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Frank Adusah-Poku, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
The 2012-2015 power crisis was the most intense, protracted and severe in the history of Ghana.
Alain Libondo (17) left, and Nsinku Zihindula (25), hammering at solid rock to find cassiterite and coltan at Szibira, South Kivu.
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Some Niger Delta residents are less concerned about oil-induced hazards and risks, or floods and erosion. They are more worried about a lack of sanitation amenities.
Destroyed buildings along an eroded coastline in Bargny, Senegal.
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Coastal erosion in West Africa is a cause for global concern. The global community must rally to address climate change which is causing the retreat.
Tanzania, Dar es Salaam: increasing temperatures under climate change are likely to be a significant risk to human health in informal settlements.
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Clearing alien trees from mountain catchments is a more cost-effective approach to providing water than building and maintaining desalination plants.
A water chopper hovers over University of Cape Town on April 18, 2021 as a wildfire spread across the mountain.
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Pablo Manzano, bc3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change and Lucas Yamat, bc3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change
Instead of evicting pastoralists from their ancestral land, more effort must be made to create new opportunities for them.
Most local municipalities in South Africa are unable to maintain basic waste water management infrastructure.
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