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22 10 2022 | 08:07

100m highly polluting cars could appear on Europe’s roads after EU move

Exclusive: Efficiency recommendations of experts rejected in European Commission ‘Euro 7’ proposals Almost 100m highly polluting cars could appear on Europe’s roads over the next decade after the…

22 10 2022 | 07:51

Billions gone: what’s behind the disappearance of Alaska snow crabs?

Authorities close snow crab season for first time as numbers of the prized seafood crash from 11bn to 2bn in four years

22 10 2022 | 07:37

Scientists rush to create vaccine for world’s biggest animal disease outbreak

Tackling African swine fever – which has led to death of more than 100m pigs since 2018 – has proved a tougher challenge than scientists first thought Tucked between motorways in the west of the…

22 10 2022 | 06:52

Do we really care more about Van Gogh’s sunflowers than real ones?

The Just Stop Oil activists are accused of using tactics that will backfire. But ‘respectable’ protest is roundly ignored

22 10 2022 | 06:48

'Like something you watch in a movie': climate crisis intensifies with catastrophic floods

Catastrophic floods around the world are triggering warnings of unprecedented natural disaster – and the human-induced climate crisis is amplifying the damage. Floods are natural phenomena, a result…

22 10 2022 | 06:29

‘Nature is striking back’: flooding around the world, from Australia to Venezuela

Heavy rain and rising waters continue to take a deadly toll in countries including Nigeria, Thailand and Vietnam

21 10 2022 | 12:43

TUNISIA: Sidi Abdelhamid desalination plant to supply water by mid-2023

The Abengoa-Enginnering Procurement & Project Management (EPPM) consortium plans to commission the Sidi Abdelhamid seawater desalination plant in the port city of Sousse in the summer of 2023.…

21 10 2022 | 12:42

Ivory Coast: 50% of mangrove forests lost in nearly 30 years

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has just released the results of several studies on mangrove forests in West Africa. The results show that Ivory Coast has lost its…

21 10 2022 | 12:39

AFRICA: Nearly 66% of wildlife has disappeared since 1970

Africa has lost nearly 70% of its wildlife populations in about 50 years. This is one of the findings of the Living Planet Index, a reference tool published every two years by the World Wildlife…

21 10 2022 | 12:36

RWANDA: Bboxx and Ampersand join forces to develop electric mobility

Ampersand has signed an agreement with the British solar home systems provider Bboxx. The two companies will collaborate on the development of green mobility through the deployment of electric…

21 10 2022 | 12:25

10 African countries that surprisingly have the cheapest gas prices in the world

A number of African countries, particularly gas producing countries, have gas prices lower than the global average. The list is dominated by North African countries.  Two non-oil producing…

21 10 2022 | 12:17

Angola Is Accelerating Plans to Pay Down Its Debt

Improvement in debt metrics is ‘miracle,’ finance chief says Government on drive to diversify oil-dependent economy Angola is taking advantage of higher oil prices to accelerate its debt…

21 10 2022 | 11:59

MOROCCO: Chefchaouen adopts LED street lighting for energy efficiency

The city of Chefchaouen in northwestern Morocco will optimize its energy consumption thanks to a project financed by the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) to combat global warming.…

21 10 2022 | 11:52

KENYA: Boreal Light equips 28 hospitals with solar-powered desalination systems

German start-up Boreal Light has delivered 28 solar-powered desalination systems to Kenya. The systems are intended for hospitals treating Covid-19 cases daily in the country's coastal region, as…

21 10 2022 | 11:49

AFRICA: “Dream” program for solar irrigation

The Ethiopian government recently participated in the launch of the "Dream" program (Distributed Renewable Energy-Agriculture Modalities). This multi-stakeholder initiative aims at the large-scale…

21 10 2022 | 11:46

EGYPT: “E-Tadweer” application to improve e-waste recycling

The "E-Tadweer" application has been launched in Egypt, more than two years after the project was presented. The platform will improve the recycling of e-waste in the country of the pharaohs, which…

21 10 2022 | 11:43

MOROCCO: Laâyoune desalination plant supplies its first m3 of water

At the end of an inspection visit to the site of the Laâyoune seawater desalination project in Western Sahara, the Director General of the Moroccan National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water…

21 10 2022 | 11:30

UGANDA: Equatorial and GIZ team up to solarize 27 rural clinics

In Uganda, electricity provider Equatorial Power is teaming up with the German International Development Cooperation Agency (GIZ) to provide solar energy to at least 27 health centers in rural areas…

21 10 2022 | 08:29

GUINEA: Government reintroduces logging, despite deforestation

Logging is resuming in Guinea after more than a year's ban, motivated by the need to preserve forest cover that has fallen victim to massive looting. The West African country is among the "bad…

21 10 2022 | 08:27

Ivory Coast/LIBERIA: towards the conservation of the Taï-Grebo-Sapo forest complex

The 4th edition of the African Days of Ecology and Climate Change, which opened on October 7, 2022 in Alepe, Ivory Coast, was an opportunity for the Ivorian government to present the Biodiversity…