Wed 08 October 2023: As cities grow, more people need food. However, space for farming is limited in cities. Building facades can offer a solution for growing food. We asked landscape architect Karen Botes to tell us about her research – cultivating traditional African vegetables on walls. What are ‘living wall systems’ and why did you study them? Living […]
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Fri 03 October 2023: Schools across India’s capital New Delhi have been shuttered and construction activity halted as the city was declared the world’s most polluted. The closures were ordered on Friday as air pollution rose to dangerous levels, with Swiss air quality monitoring group IQAir putting the Indian city at the top of a […]
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Thu 26 October 2023: The World Bank Board has committed to support South Africa’s efforts to promote long-term energy security and a low carbon transition with a $1 billion Development Policy Loan (DPL). “We are pleased to support South Africa’s government, which has taken decisive reforms to address the challenges posed by the energy crisis. […]
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Sun 15 October 2023: A recent study by scientists at the University of Leeds discovered a troubling trend in Antarctica, where over 40% of the ice shelves had drastically shrunk since 1997. The fact that over half of these ice shelves show “no signs of recovery” and that this occurrence is intimately linked to climate […]
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Fri 13 October 2023: The global hydrological cycle is spinning out of balance due to human activities, with droughts and extreme rainfall spurring climate change, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday. “Glaciers and ice cover are retreating before our eyes. Rising temperatures have accelerated-and also disrupted-the water cycle,” WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said […]
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Thu 05 October 2023: Climate change is one of the most profound challenges the world faces, remarked Pope Francis on Wednesday. In his apostolic exhortation, the pope warned that the world is collapsing and may be getting closer to the breaking point, adding that it is indubitable that the impact of climate change will increasingly […]
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A woman in front of her earthquake-damaged house in the old city in Marrakesh. [Fadel Senna/AFP] Wed 04 October 2023: Climate change is detrimental in every imaginable way, negatively affecting the global economy, agriculture, industry, sports and everything else people know, love and make use of, Anadolu Agency reports. But one aspect of this environmental […]
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Workers busy at a shipbreaking yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Tue 03 October 2023: European maritime companies are ditching their old ships for scrap on Bangladeshi beaches in dangerous and polluting conditions that have killed workers pulling them apart, says Human Rights Watch. Bangladesh’s southeastern Sitakunda beaches have emerged as one of the world’s largest […]
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Mon 02 October 2023: European Union (EU) has launched the first phase of its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) aimed at imposing CO2 emissions tariffs on various imported goods, including steel, cement, and more, reported Reuters. This initiative is designed to safeguard the EU’s commitment to sustainability by preventing the influx of environmentally detrimental foreign products […]
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Sat 30 September 2023: Ella Kissi-Debrah’s tragic story serves as a haunting reminder of the deadly consequences of air pollution. In 2013, this nine-year-old succumbed to an acute asthma attack after a life spent within 30 meters of London’s bustling South Circular road, enduring frequent seizures and numerous hospital visits. In 2020, a coroner officially […]
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