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A thousand-year-old “mixing” event allowed African cattle - after spending thousands of years confined to certain regions - to diversify and spread.
Because the forecast for rainfall in the Rift Valley basin is a rising trend, the lake levels look set to rise even more in the future.
Trends across the different rainfall zones can be linked to changes recorded for large-scale climate systems.
Microplastics could pose a threat to the sustenance of aquatic biodiversity when ingested by animals.
Fruit production of shea is often limited by a lack of pollination which is more pronounced in places with less tree and shrub diversity.
Regreening Africa works directly with 500,000 households to restore one million hectares of agricultural land.
What are the visions that reflect the diverse values that nature holds for people?
Khartoum, one of Africa’s largest cities, is both blessed and threatened by the dynamics of the Nile Rivers.
In cross-sector collaboration, communities and citizens articulate their needs and then partner with governments and NGOs to address these self-identified problems.
Nigeria’s unreliable power supply comes with a triple challenge of social, economic and environmental costs.
To prevent the humanitarian disasters that follow floods in Sudan, more attention needs to be paid to infrastructure planning.
To achieve sustainable, functional buildings, architects in cities like Lagos need to consider local realities.
Understanding fire history is crucial to designing effective fire management in order to maintain biodiversity and support the livelihoods of people.
Municipalities are now forced to identify new cemetery planning methods and models that are environmentally sensitive and consistent with diverse cultural practices, and facilitate social cohesion.
Agricultural investments could play a role in reducing poverty and improving food security.
Kampala, like many other cities in sub-Saharan Africa, has a critical data gap on the scale and magnitude of air pollution.
Local government and humanitarian actors are faced with tough choices of prioritising, managing and balancing resources, locations and constituencies.
How communities in Botswana are counting the costs of a trophy hunting ban.
Conservation and development scheme REDD+ has manifested as a series of models, which increases its perceived success and enables it to continue despite not delivering on its wide-reaching promises.
Between 1986 and 2016, Kenya lost about 21 of its seagrasses.
Young people’s lives in the Niger Delta have not improved because development agencies have been hijacked by local leaders
Many carnivores are ambush predators. Being seen by their prey can lead to them abandoning the hunt.
Vulnerability in the context of Covid-19 is really complex. Many households in Gauteng have different challenges.
In general, the larger the tree, the more carbon it stores.