Region - Africa, page 6

Conservation

In Defense of Biodiversity: Why Protecting Species from Extinction Matters

By Carl Safina

A man collects snails amid a nitrogen-fueled algae bloom in China's eastern Jiangsu province.

Can the World Find Solutions to the Nitrogen Pollution Crisis?

By Fred Pearce

Climate Connection: Unraveling the Surprising Ecology of Dust

By Jim Robbins

Nile tilapia, shown in an African market, are increasingly found in waters throughout sub-Saharan Africa far from their native range.

How Aquaculture Is Threatening the Native Fish Species of Africa

By Adam Welz

People in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri gather along the seasonal Ngadda River, which feeds into Lake Chad.

How Big Water Projects Helped Trigger Africa’s Migrant Crisis

By Fred Pearce

Charcoal dealers in Democratic Republic of the Congo's North Kivu province, where much of the charcoal is produced from trees in Virunga National Park.

Forests

In Africa’s Oldest Park, Seeking Solutions to a Destructive Charcoal Trade

By Amy Yee

Unnatural Surveillance: How Online Data Is Putting Species at Risk

By Adam Welz

Water tanks in the Marshall Islands, part of a 2016 Green Climate Fund-United Nations Development Program project to build drought resilience with alternative water sources.

Opinion

Memo to the President: Support for Green Climate Fund Puts America First

By Matthew Kotchen and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz

Satellite image of the Sundarbans coastal forest in Bangladesh, which is habitat for the endangered Bengal tiger.

Eyes on Nature: How Satellite Imagery Is Transforming Conservation Science

By Richard Conniff

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam under construction in 2015. The 6,000-megawatt dam, now nearing completion, will be Africa's largest.

Water

The Vanishing Nile: A Great River Faces a Multitude of Threats

By Richard Conniff

The Kerumutan Peat Swamp Forest in Sumatra.

Can We Find the World’s Remaining Peatlands in Time to Save Them?

By Fred Pearce

Nonhle Mbuthuma, leader of the Amadiba Crisis Committee, which opposes a proposed titanium mine on South Africa’s Eastern Cape.

A Death in Pondoland

How a Proposed Strip Mine Brought Conflict to South Africa’s Wild Coast

By Fred Pearce

For a Defender of Elephants, China’s Ivory Ban Comes Just in Time

By Richard Schiffman

A farmer waters coffee saplings on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Agriculture

On the Slopes of Kilimanjaro, a Shift in Climate Hits Coffee Harvest

By Daniel Grossman

Dried-out palm trees in Morocco's Tafilalet oasis in October 2016.

Dispatch

A Drive to Save Saharan Oases As Climate Change Takes a Toll

By Emma Bryce

Climate Consequences

How Warming Is Threatening the Genetic Diversity of Species

By Jim Robbins

An elephant at the Amboseli game reserve, approximately 250 km south of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.

How Forensics Are Boosting the Battle Against the Wildlife Trade

By Heather Millar

Saly Sarr picking "propagules" from older mangrove trees.

African Wetlands Project

Are ‘Blue Carbon’ Projects a Win for the Climate and the People?

By Winifred Bird

Wildlife Farming: Does It Help Or Hurt Threatened Species?

Wildlife farming is being touted as a way to protect endangered species while providing food and boosting incomes in rural areas. But some conservation scientists argue that such practices fail to benefit beleaguered wildlife.

By Richard Conniff

Floating Solar: A Win-Win for Drought-Stricken Lakes in U.S.

Floating solar panel arrays are increasingly being deployed in places as diverse as Brazil and Japan. One prime spot for these “floatovoltaic” projects could be the sunbaked U.S. Southwest, where they could produce clean energy and prevent evaporation in major man-made reservoirs.

By Philip Warburg

What Would a Global Warming Increase of 1.5 Degrees Be Like?

The Paris climate conference set the ambitious goal of finding ways to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, rather than the previous threshold of 2 degrees. But what would be the difference between a 1.5 and 2 degree world? And how realistic is such a target?

By Fred Pearce