Across Africa, many rural communities face a growing sanitation crisis. Wastewater treatment systems, where they exist, are ...

With the intensification of climate change, the southern part of Africa is not only becoming warmer and drier—it's ...

The Brazilian environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a license to blast a natural rock barrier on the Tocantins River in Pará ...

Marisa Drew sees massive economic potential in the continent’s coastal industries, from aquaculture to offshore wind.

Roberto Carlos Conceição Arruda recalls the moment in 2002 when an ordinary morning routine took a harrowing turn. It was ...

Water hyacinth is not only affecting East African countries. It is also a major problem in some of the world’s major dams - ...

Sewage and pollution continue to devastate the Hennops River, as advocacy group WaterCAN calls for accountability and urges ...

If you are sneezing this spring, you are not alone. Every year, plants release billions of pollen grains into the air, specks of male reproductive material that many of us notice only when we get ...

The initiative, conducted in partnership with UK-based environmental restoration company Dendra, used custom-designed drones to carry out aerial seeding ...

The tundra biome is the coldest and one of the largest ecosystems on Earth. It covers about one-fifth of the land on the planet, primarily in the Arctic circle but also in Antarctica as well as a ...

Biomes are the world's major habitats. We identify biomes by the vegetation and animals that populate them and determine the location of each by the regional climate. The tundra biome is ...