Africa
Spurred by climate change, civil war and poverty, a new plague of locusts is sweeping though northeastern Africa. And experts say the out-of-control insect swarms are going to get worse before they get better. Previously, locusts — also known as short-horned grasshoppers — haven’t appeared in such numbers in the region since the 1950s. Tens […]
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In Sub-Saharan Africa, 31 countries have banned single-use plastic. Kenya is in the lead with its draconian penalties for infractions — and its promising results. Flood of plastic Single-use plastics have become a significant part of the world’s plastics crisis. Their rise to dominance in grocery store sales is familiar across the planet, as individual items […]
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In 2019, our collective love of Oreos, KitKats, or any of myriad other products made with palm oil, has resulted in the burning of an area the size of Puerto Rico. Global consumption of palm-oil-based food products has also released in that one-year period as much carbon dioxde pollution as the United Kingdom produced during […]
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Their homeland has been ripped apart by some of the most brutal sectarian violence in the world. Yet in the unlikeliest of circumstances, Muslim and Christian women of the Central African Republic — one of the least-developed nations on earth — are now coming together to try to repair the damage. It won’t be easy. Coup, then civil […]
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Leaders of one of the world’s biggest environmental organizations were aware of ongoing human-rights abuses committed by their anti-poaching officers in Africa, according to an investigation by Buzzfeed News. Instantly recognizable for its iconic panda-bear logo, the World Wide Fund for Nature — known as the World Wildlife Fund in the United States — has […]
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Sea turtles are getting sorely needed help in Lagos, an African megacity on the coast of Nigeria. They have Doyinsola Ogunye, a law-school graduate from the University of Lagos and an accomplished community organizer, to thank. Ogunye links her work in the community with ecological activism, organizing beach cleanups that brings dozens of local kids […]
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