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African leaders unite to fund $50bn yearly climate initiative despite global setbacks

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Designers Hugo Dumas and Carla Zhang bring fresh solutions to fashion’s growing waste problem

9 Sep 2025

Source: © Impact SRK Consulting considers the risk that illegal artisanal miners pose in the management of tailings dams in many parts of Africa

Illegal mining: A key risk to tailings dams management and mine closure

2 May 2025

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Landslide devastates village in Darfur, over 1,000 feared dead

3 Sep 2025

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Africa's water investment pledge faces skills gap challenge

29 Aug 2025

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African universities urged to spearhead climate research

19 Aug 2025

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WWF calls on G20 to prioritise sustainable mining for green future in Africa

18 Aug 2025

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Entries for the 2025 Climate Media Awards are open

4 Aug 2025

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Submissions open for 10th African Power & Energy Elites

31 Jul 2025

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Kenya harnesses geothermal power to capture carbon from the air

Jefferson Kahinju and Hereward Holland 22 Jul 2025

Africa’s sustainability changemakers unite: YES ESG and Beyond Awards

Africa’s sustainability changemakers unite: YES ESG and Beyond Awards

ESG Africa Conference 4 Jul 2025

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10 more black rhinos translocated from SA to Mozambique

20 Jun 2025

Source: © Mining Zambia Magazine On 18 February 2025, a catastrophic tailings dam collapsed at the Sino-Metals Chambishi Mine, in Zambia, flooding the surruonding area and Mwambashi River with 50 million litres of acidic effluent

Earth Day spotlights importance of environmental management of tailing dams

Alastair Bovim 22 Apr 2025

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Bird species are disappearing at an alarming rate in Kenya – new study

Joseph Ogutu 6 Sep 2024

A bird perches on an elephant as it walks at the Amboseli National Park in Kajiado County, Kenya,4 April 2024. Reuters/Monicah Mwangi/File Photo

Conservationists ask Tanzania to ban sport hunting of elephants

Elias Biryabarema 14 Aug 2024

Caps collected from used plastic bottles are stored in a bucket at the Waste museum in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, 23 February 2022. Reuters/Temilade Adelaja/File Photo

Nigeria to ban single-use plastics next year

Isaac Anyaogu 26 Jun 2024

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Kenya’s devastating floods expose decades of poor urban planning and bad land management

Sean Avery 6 May 2024

A bird perches on an elephant as it walks at the Amboseli National Park in Kajiado County, Kenya, 4 April 2024. Reuters/Monicah Mwangi

Elephant deaths trigger Kenyan call for Tanzania to curb hunts

Duncan Miriri 11 Apr 2024

Farmers work at a cocoa farm in Daloa, Ivory Coast, 3 October 2023. Reuters/Ange Aboa/File Photo

EU will not delay deforestation law, environment chief says on Ivory Coast visit

Ange Aboa 8 Apr 2024

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Namibia investigates surge in rhino poaching in Etosha park

Nyasha Nyaungwa 3 Apr 2024

TotalEnergies and QatarEnergy explore South African Orange Basin

America Hernandez and Ron Bousso 6 Mar 2024

Australia’s shot-hole borer beetle invasion has begun, but we don’t need to chop down every tree under attack

Australia’s shot-hole borer beetle invasion has begun, but we don’t need to chop down every tree under attack

Theo Evans and Bruce Webber 16 Feb 2024

Elia Nandjiwa is resources industries and mining executive at Barloworld Equipment Southern Africa

#MI24: 'Mining Indaba 2024 embraced its theme' - Barloworld

Elia Nandjiwa 9 Feb 2024

Shell joins international sell-off of Nigeria onshore oil and gas holdings

Ron Bousso 17 Jan 2024

Sand mining company appeals against refusal of water licence in Philippi

Sand mining company appeals against refusal of water licence in Philippi

Liezl Human 26 Oct 2023

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Standard Bank's inaugural nature-conservation loan powers Wilderness' market expansion

11 Oct 2023

Lion protection fee paid by tourists could help stop trophy hunting - South African study

Lion protection fee paid by tourists could help stop trophy hunting - South African study

Neil D'Cruze, Angie Elwin and Herbert Ntuli 5 Oct 2023

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Gabon 'blue bond' swap raises hopes for wave of African debt-for-nature deals

Rachel Savage 16 Aug 2023

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Pesticides are harming Nigeria: it's time to update the law

Jane Ezirigwe 31 Jul 2023

Source: Reuters. A view shows an ecoguard walking on a path in the Arboretum Raponda Walker during a press visit of this protected forest aera on the eve of the opening of the One Forest Summit in Libreville, Gabon, February 28, 2023.

Gabon launches tender for Africa's first debt-for-nature swap

Marc Jones and Rachel Savage 26 Jul 2023

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