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Africa’s nature-based solutions to tackle climate change

Africa’s nature-based solutions to tackle climate change

ByBryony CottamApr 24, 2025

Across sub-Saharan Africa, cities are embracing nature-based solutions to climate change. A World Bank report reveals the keys to their…

Fathi, 47, fills water containers from a canal in the city of N’Kob. Due to the drought, the Moroccan government has banned the irrigation of flowerbeds and golf courses, and in many villages at the foot of the Atlas Mountains, the use of wells has been restricted to once a week, leading to long queues of those needing water.

The lost oases of Morocco

ByGeographical ContributorMar 7, 2025
Once thriving centres of life, Morocco’s oases are drying up due to high temperatures, prolonged droughts and unsustainable water management
Boone Hall, one of more than 300 former plantations in Charleston, South Carolina

Strontium: the metal with remarkable powers to help track ancestral roots

ByBryony CottamFeb 20, 2025
A new map of Africa that uses strontium could help descendants of the transatlantic slave trade to finally trace their roots
Nidole Karama, 8, perched on the side of one of the remaining huts on Nyangai Island in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone’s disappearing island

ByTommy TrenchardDec 24, 2024
Tommy Trenchard reveals how families are battling to survive on Sierra Leone's Nyangai Island amid rising tides from climate change
Cape Town city and table mountain in the background during sunset

Geo explainer: Exploring Africa’s economy and GDP

ByVictoria HeathOct 8, 2024
Five countries account for half of Africa's total GDP, playing crucial roles in the continent's economy – but where exactly are they?
Beautiful African landscape with savannah animals and mountains. Giraffe and acacia trees with Mount Kilimanjaro in background

Africa’s final glaciers will melt away by 2040

ByVictoria HeathAug 31, 2024
With the effects of climate change wreaking havoc on the continent, Africa faces the loss of its three glaciers in just a few decades.
3d topographic map of Rwanda

Country profile: Rwanda

ByGeographical StaffJul 18, 2024

Geographical in-depth guide to Rwanda Rwanda’s urban cemeteries are running out of space. Many of the country’s 1,500 cemeteries, having…

A survey plane flying above a herd of Tiang in South Sudan

South Sudan survey reveals migration of six million antelope

ByStuart ButlerJun 27, 2024
A survey in South Sudan has revealed a migration of six million antelope, which makes it the worlds largest migration of large mammals
Chimpanzee, Guinea

Chimpanzees use the natural medicine of the forest

ByStuart ButlerJun 25, 2024
Uncover the secrets of chimpanzee medicine. Find out how these remarkable animals use natural remedies to heal themselves.
Elephant

Elephants call each other by name

ByStuart ButlerJun 11, 2024
It's no secret that elephants are highly intelligent creatures, but new research suggests that elephants might even call each other by name.
Conservation organisation releases white rhinos back into the wild

Conservation organisation releases white rhinos back into the wild

ByStuart ButlerMay 20, 2024
In a rare bit of good news African Parks, a conservation organisation, has released the first of 2000 white rhinos into the wild.
Mystery behind the construction of the pyramids solved

Mystery behind the construction of the pyramids solved

ByStuart ButlerMay 18, 2024
Scientists think a long extinct river might be the key to solving the mystery behind how the pyramids were constructed.
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