Volunteer Group Helps Clean Miami Beaches

Florida is known for its beaches but keeping them clean is hard work

Nigeria Pushes Cleaner, More Affordable Gasoline...

Nigeria’s government has announced a natural gas expansion program to urge vehicle owners to convert their gasoline engines to run on the cheaper and cleaner-burning natural gas

Saving Senegal’s Forests: Group Turns Straw...

Wood and charcoal burning account for 50% of household energy consumption in Senegal, contributing to air pollution and deforestation

Ghana Reforestation

A new World Bank report says Ghana’s annual deforestation rate is around 3.51%, meaning the country loses at least 315,000 hectares of its forest a year, costing about $400 million annually. To help reverse the damage, a Ghana project is promoting sustainable forestry through timber, seedling and essential oil sales and educational tours

Ugandans Cry Foul Over Displacements from...

Uganda and Tanzania in September signed an agreement to build what they say will be the world’s longest heated oil pipeline, a $3.5 billion project that will run from southwestern Uganda to Dar es Salaam. Ugandan authorities say those affected will be compensated but rights groups worry that few details have been announced. Environmental activists warn the oil project, run by French Company Total and Chinese company CNOOC, also puts Uganda’s nature reserves and ecosystems at risk

Kenyan Government Fighting Payout for Slum’s...

Residents of a Mombasa slum won a landmark payout in July over a pollution by a lead smelter that poisoned locals. Kenya’s government was ordered to pay $12 million to residents within 90 days because of its failure to enforce environmental regulations with the smelter, which closed in 2014. But the government has appealed the payout

Devastating Amazon Fires

Environmentalists are increasingly alarmed at the growing pace of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. With the fire season under way, Brazil’s rainforests face the threat of even more destruction

‘An Ecological Bomb’: Russians Living With...

Residents of the city of Aleksandrov, north of Moscow, say they want a giant landfill site closed permanently, claiming it’s a health hazard. Local activists started blockading the site in 2018 to stop trash from Moscow from being unloaded there. A court order in May banned such dumping, but checkpoints run by residents remain in …

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Tackling the world’s most polluted capital...

Since the days of Genghis Khan, nomads have lived in gers – a traditional Mongolian round tent – but as extreme weather patterns threaten this Mongolian traditional lifestyle, many are moving to the capital city, Ulaanbaatar. The capital now competes with New Delhi for the title of most polluted capital in the world due to amount of coa burned during the winter to keep the population warm

Germany Responds to Youth Demands for...

The German government recently unveiled a plan to tax carbon emissions from cars and buildings. It’s a big move in a country known for its fast cars, but whose young people are demanding climate friendly transportation