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South Africa's data centre 'gold rush' risks resource crunchEmerging as the digital powerhouse of Africa, South Africa's expanding data centers play a vital role in reinforcing national security and ...
Once one of Africa's largest lakes, Lake Chad has lost 90% of its water. Now countries are planning a $50 billion plan to save it?Lake Chad has lost nearly ninety percent of its surface area since the 1960s. This environmental decline severely impacts millions of peopl...
As Lake Chad shrank to a tenth of its size, engineers revived Transaqua: A plan to pipe water 2,400 km from the Congo River to refill it, moving a whole river across a continentLake Chad's water levels have significantly decreased, impacting over thirty million people. Engineers propose Transaqua, a massive canal t...
Quote of the Day by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai: "It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is..." — Inspiring life lessons on how small everyday actions can transform communities, protect nature, build hope, and create lasting change for future generationsQuote of the Day by Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai and her timeless message on everyday leadership. Her famous words remind us th...
Sahara vs Great Green Wall: An 8,000-km green belt is being built across Africa's Sahel region; aims to stop desert expansionAfrica's Great Green Wall is an 8,000-kilometre restoration initiative stretching from Senegal to Djibouti, aimed at reversing decades of d...
Something unexpected is happening to sea turtles, and scientists can’t fully explain itSea turtle nesting study: Loggerhead sea turtles in Cabo Verde are nesting earlier, a sign of adaptation to warmer seas. However, this come...
UN chief ups climate pitch, targets fossil fuels and AIAcknowledging that temperature increases will breach the 1.5C guardrail, Guterres focused on the need to take measures to ensure that the r...
A giant rail bridge across the Gobi Desert in China is making people ask one big question: How?A massive rail bridge rising above China’s Gobi Desert is drawing global attention. Built to overcome shifting sands, powerful winds, and e...
What’s behind the giant brown ribbon stretching thousands of miles across the Atlantic ocean?A giant brown ribbon stretching thousands of miles across the Atlantic is revealing how closely Earth's oceans, climate, and ecosystems are...
Are the world’s freshwater sources vanishing before our eyes? Satellite images reveal an appalling global water crisisAcross the globe, our precious rivers, lakes, and reservoirs are diminishing at an alarming rate. Cutting-edge satellite imagery underscore...
South Africa's Drakensberg grasslands still look the same, but farmers say droughts, heatwaves, and disease are quietly changing what the land can supportDrought and heatwaves are decimating sheep flocks in South Africa's Drakensberg mountains, threatening the livelihoods and cultural identit...
BRICS+ agriculture beyond borders: Trade and resilience for a food-secure worldWith India’s leadership and BRICS+ cooperation, agriculture can become not only a source of food, but a foundation for resilience, prosperi...
Everyone owned it in the '80s, and now it's the thrift store find we all want in our homesRattan and wicker furniture, once overlooked, is now a highly desirable trend, offering warmth and texture to homes. Distinguishing between...
A vanished branch of the Nile once ran beside the Great Pyramid and helped build it, a new study revealsAncient pollen grains trapped in desert sediment reveal a lost arm of the Nile, the Khufu branch, flowed near the Giza plateau during pyram...
Turn fog into water: How these women are using an incredible technique to survive in harsh, dry mountainsIn Morocco’s drought-hit Anti-Atlas Mountains, women are changing lives by turning fog into clean drinking water. Using giant mesh nets ins...
From kitchen storage to recycling bins: How Deposit Refund Schemes can change India’s plastic economyIndia is exploring Deposit Refund Schemes (DRS) to tackle plastic waste, where consumers pay a small deposit on packaged products, refunded...
Antarctica's tourism boom raises concerns about contamination and diseaseSoaring tourism to Antarctica, driven by climate change fears, raises concerns about contamination and damage to the fragile ecosystem. A r...
Quote of the Day by Wangari Maathai: “The Generation That Destroys the Environment… – Lessons on environmental responsibility, climate change, sustainability, and why protecting nature matters for future generations by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of the Green Belt MovementQuote of the Day by Wangari Maathai: "The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price," Wangari Maat...
- Manmohan Singh pitches for greater cooperation between Asia, Africa on climate change
PM today pitched for greater cooperation between Asian and African countries to address short and long term challenges in this regard.
- Kyoto Protocol to be BASIC's priority
The four emerging economies gave no indication about their position on the contentious issue of a legal outcome for the Bali track of negot...