Johannesburg, South Africa – From deadly Cyclone Gezani in Madagascar and surging waterborne disease risks across flood-affected Mozambique, to parched land and herds of dead livestock along the Kenya ...

African elephant numbers have dropped from about 26 million in the 1800s to 415,000 today. While this is largely due to European colonisation, poaching and habitat loss, these majestic animals now ...

A new report from Water Witness International (WWI), a U.K.-based organization focused on sustainable water resource management, uncovers extreme water pollution in certain African countries that ...

South Africa’s highest court said it has been forced to work remotely since Nov. 1 because of a lack of reliable water supplies, the latest sign of the infrastructure challenges impacting Africa’s ...

Africa is rapidly expanding electricity generation, but new research shows energy planning must also account for water ...

In 2023, Gen. Michael Langley, commander of U.S. Africa Command, warned that African countries face new destabilizing challenges, including “climate change [that] is increasing desertification.” One ...

This is the third in a seven-part series that explores the application of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to climate and nature challenges, with a focus on water management for climate adaptation in ...

“Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world … an empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest,” wrote Joseph Conrad in classic novella “Heart of ...