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Biodiversity: Africa on the front line of a crisis already threatening millions of livelihoods
A quarter of Africa's species, gone since before the industrial age even started. And the money keeps flowing the wrong…
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Mauritius and Seychelles Launch New Exploration Campaign on the Mascarene Plateau
The joint maritime zone spans nearly 396,000 square kilometers of the Mascarene Plateau, administered by the two Indian Ocean nations since the United Nations recognized their…
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Europe Is Burning: 2026 Shaping Up as a Record Year for Wildfires
Europe is enduring one of its worst wildfire seasons on record in 2026, with nearly 490,000 hectares burned across the…
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Cairo Mourns After Deadly Mall Explosion
A deadly explosion at a New Cairo shopping mall has left three shop workers dead and seventeen people injured, triggering…
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Between Drought in East Africa and a Heatwave Building Over the Sahel, the Continent Faces a Split Climate Summer
This climate split, drought in the east, extreme heat across the Sahel, flooding along the Gulf of Guinea coast, is…
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Africa’s Harvest Divide: Southern Bounty Contrasts with East African Food Crisis
Just months apart on the same continent, two harvests are telling opposite stories. In Southern Africa, farmers are bringing in…
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Nigeria and African Negotiators Push for Legally Binding Drought Treaty at COP17
As delegates from 197 countries prepare to gather in Mongolia for the seventeenth Conference of the Parties to the United…
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Colombia earthquake: death toll climbs to 265, race against time to find the missing
The 72 hour window to find survivors has closed, but in Colombia the search hasn't stopped. With 265 confirmed dead…
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Colombia: Earthquake Death Toll Continues to Rise, Race Against Time Continues
Colombia's death toll from Monday's magnitude 7.4 earthquake has climbed past 240, with more than 2,700 people still missing as…
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Indonesia: Wildfires Continue to Ravage Several Provinces as Tens of Thousands of Firefighters Mobilize
Wildfires are spreading across Indonesia, forcing the closure of Mount Bromo's national park and the deployment of nearly 48,000 firefighters,…
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In Gabès, a Presidential Visit Fails to Ease Residents Anger
President Kais Saied traveled to Gabès overnight on August 10 2026 to confront the region's chronic industrial pollution crisis and…
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Total Solar Eclipse Set to Sweep Across Europe
Europe is about to witness a total solar eclipse for the first time since 1999. On August 12 2026 the…
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Colombia Earthquake Death Toll Climbs to 132, With Fears the Number Will Keep Rising
The race to find survivors continues in Colombia, where the death toll from Monday's earthquake keeps climbing. From an initial…
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Nouakchott Chokes on Its Own Waste as Cleanup Efforts Struggle to Keep Pace
Walking through the streets, avenues and public squares of Nouakchott, the picture is troubling. Many parts of the Mauritanian capital…
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Cocoa: how the short dry season hits Côte d’Ivoire’s mid-crop harvest every year
The lack of water during this dry spell tends to produce smaller pods and beans of generally lower quality than…
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« Forty-Seven Degrees and Counting: Morocco’s Summer of Extreme Heat »
Forty-seven degrees. That's not a forecast, it's what parts of Morocco have already lived through this summer, day after day,…
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Drowning in Extremes How Years of Drought Turned the Sahel Into a Death Trap for Floods
Years of drought have degraded and hardened the soil, making it less permeable so that even moderate rainfall now generates…
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Kenya: A Dry August on Paper, But One to Watch
When the rain came for Nairobi in March, it took 112 people with it swallowing roads, sweeping away cars, drowning…
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Zambia’s Power Crisis Is Easing — For Now
Zambia's blackouts once ran 20 hours a day, all because one river the Zambezi, source of 82 percent of the…
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Europe swelters again as a fourth heatwave looms for early August
Europe is bracing for a fourth heatwave in early August, with temperatures forecast to hit 40 to 42°C in parts…
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EUROPE UNDER FIRE: The largest evacuation in France and Spain since World War II
Western Europe is living through one of the most dramatic summers in its recent history. In both France and Spain,…
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TRAPPED HEAT
Parisians are once again bracing for a combination of soaring temperatures and thickening smog, as a fresh heatwave sweeps across…
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URGENCE ÉCOLOGIQUE: Le Sénégal face à ses démons environnementaux
Forêts qui reculent, air irrespirable dans la capitale, pêcheurs à genoux, robinets encore secs dans certaines régions. Le Sénégal doit…
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After a Year of Crisis, Southern Africa Bets on Prevention: AU and UN Shift to Proactive Disaster Management
The African Union and United Nations are transitioning from reactive disaster response to proactive climate management in Southern Africa, prompted…
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Meteorologists Brace for Powerful El Niño Event Expected to Drive Extreme Weather Into 2027
A strong El Niño event is developing in the Pacific Ocean, likely impacting Africa's weather patterns from now until 2027.…
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Accra Ranks Among World’s Ten Most Polluted Cities as Sahara Dust Meets Urban Smog
Accra, Ghana, has been identified as one of the world's most polluted cities, alarming health officials and residents alike. The…
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Heat and Failing Rains Squeeze Southern Africa’s Grain Belt
Southern Africa faces a worsening food security crisis due to rising temperatures and significant decreases in seasonal rainfall, threatening maize…
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One Region, Two Threats: Floods Loom Over the Gulf of Guinea While the Sahel Dries
West Africa is facing a dual climate threat in the coming months, with heavy rainfall expected along the Gulf of…
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Bulldozers Before the Rains: West African Cities Clear Waterways Ahead of Flood Season
West Africa's urban centers face increasing flood risks due to severe rainfall, unplanned urbanization, and obstructed drainage systems. In response,…
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ICPAC Issues Drought Alert for Horn of Africa as Hot, Dry Months Loom
The IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) has raised concerns regarding below-average rainfall and above-normal temperatures in the Horn…