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One impact of climate change is increased tropical storms. The southeast of Africa experiences tropical cyclones - for ...
Join presenter, Chioma, for an introduction to the physical geography of the continent of Africa, from the Sahara Desert in the north, to the Cape region in the south. Join presenter, Chioma, as she ...
Nigeria is pioneering the development of small, off-grid solar panel installations to bring reliable electricity to remote ...
Rights groups allege that mining permits were illegally awarded using manipulated maps, effectively shrinking ... Beyond biodiversity, the Congo Basin rainforest represents a vital carbon sink ...
How much rainforest is still in good condition and able to sustain the Daintree’s cassowaries and tree kangaroos, the Amazon’s sloths and anacondas and the Congo Basin’s forest elephants ...
Humans play a far greater role in the fate of African elephants than habitat, and human conflict in particular has a devastating impact on these largest terrestrial animals, according to a new ...
Promoted as “andesine” and purportedly from mines in Congo or Tibet, this material was subsequently ... Lake County, Plush, or Rabbit Basin occurrences. Considerable work has recently been done on the ...
The Congo Basin spans 3.4 million square kilometres, making it almost six times the size of the UK, which measures around 242,000 square kilometres. It is also Africa’s biggest rainforest and ...
It wades through the swamps and rivers of the Congo Basin in Central Africa, the local Bantu people told European explorers in the early 20th century. It’s thought to be the “size of something ...
After Harry joined the board of directors for African Parks in 2023, an investigative Daily Mail news report alleged that local Baka people in the Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the Congo basin ...
On average, for every kilometer (0.6 miles) of first-cut road, the study found an additional 4.8 km (3 mi) of secondary roads in the Congo Basin, 9.8 km (6 mi) in New Guinea, and a striking 49.1 ...
National organization cites unchecked development and a lack of regional water-supply planning as causes for concern.