Water, Africa’s Gold: Kenya’s urban slums need water, even as lakes Victoria, Turkana in trouble

Urban poor in Kenya bear brunt of water scarcity due to a number of reasons, even as trans-border lakes are on the verge of dying

Rising ammonia levels in West Africa linked to biomass burning

The trend was centered over Nigeria and the Southern coast 

‘Selous Game Reserve dam rooted in geopolitics over Nile’

Conservationist Mordecai Ogada says the decision to build a $3 billion dam on the Rufiji river that flows through the protected area is an …

How corruption encourages illegal fishing on Lake Victoria

By encouraging illegal fishing to continue, corruption is undermining the comanagement system implemented to encourage more sustainable practices

‘76% of Lake Victoria’s endemic biodiversity at risk of extinction’

IUCN report cites pollution, over-harvesting of resources and land clearance among primary threats

There is no space for coal, warns UN climate chief

Christiana Figueres says Australia needs national consensus to avoid dangerous climate change

Dingoes could help in saving Australia’s native wildlife: conservationists

Scientists call for altering country’s famous “dingo-proof” fence to allow the predators into a national park to prey upon …

Tanzania to establish fund to conserve Lake Victoria basin

Fund will be used to help develop fishing as a sustainable source of income for more than a million people who depend on the lake’s resources

New Zealand initiates project to study climate change impacts on Antarctic sea ice

Project involves use of a vehicle that can test previously hard to measure sea ice thickness from underneath

Wave energy could prove to be more steady, cheaper renewable energy source

Power generated by waves can be can be forecast with a high degree of accuracy without much variability for hours at a time, which is a huge …

Pristine Tasmania faces GM threat

Opium industry lobbies to lift moratorium on GM farming

Roadmap for an effective environmental regime

Nivit Kumar Yadav reports on how different countries are tackling environmental pollution and the lessons in it for India