Our website use cookies to improve and personalize your experience and to display advertisements (if any). Our website may also include cookies from third parties like Google Adsense, Google Analytics, and Youtube. By using the website, you consent to the use of cookies.

Ok, I Agree
Sep
15
2020
By The African Mirror
Trump blames ‘forest management’ as Western wildfires become election issue

Trump blames ‘forest management’ as Western wildfires become election issue

WORLD
TREVOER HUNNICUTT and JEFF MASON THE wildfires sweeping the west coast states have assumed centre stage in the U.S. election campaign, with President Donald Trump visiting California after blaming the blazes on poor forest management and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, stressing the role of climate change in stoking the fires. The Republican president, seeking re-election on November 3, is due to meet with firefighters and emergency officials in Northern California. Democrats have blasted Trump for remaining mostly silent about the largest wildfires in state history, except for his efforts to blame the blazes on failures by the state government.…
Read More
Aug
15
2020
By The African Mirror
These African World Heritage Sites are under threat from climate change

These African World Heritage Sites are under threat from climate change

ENVIRONMENT
JOANNE CLARKE, Senior lecturer, University of East Anglia; ELIZABETH EDNA WANGUI, Associate professor, Ohio University GRACE W. NGARUIYA, Lecturer, Kenyatta University NICK BROOKS, Research fellow, University of East Anglia VERY few academics or policymakers are talking about the impact of climate change on heritage. Yet heritage is essential for social wellbeing, for identity creation, for safeguarding traditional knowledge and livelihoods and for sustainable development. The conversations taking place are mainly on the effects of climate change in wealthier countries. One recent study estimates that only 1% of research on the impacts of climate change on heritage is related to Africa.…
Read More
Aug
13
2020
By The African Mirror
Women step forward in push to nurture African climate scientists

Women step forward in push to nurture African climate scientists

SCIENCE, TECH AND INNOVATION
BUSANI BAFANA AS a child, Kenyan meteorologist Saumu Shaka helped out on her parents' small farm growing maize and pigeon pea - and learned how the weather can hold food producers hostage. "Looking back, the yield has declined over the years," said Shaka, 28, who works with the Kenya Meteorological Department. A decade ago, her parents would get 25 sacks of maize from their six hectares in Taita Taveta County, southeast of Nairobi. Today that has dwindled to five bags at most, because of erratic rainfall that can also spur crop-destroying pests. As climate change fuels extreme weather and threatens…
Read More
Jul
22
2020
By The African Mirror
Greta Thunberg plans to donate 1 million-euro prize to green causes

Greta Thunberg plans to donate 1 million-euro prize to green causes

WORLD
THIN LEI WIN  SWEDISH teen activist Greta Thunberg plans to donate 1 million euros ($1.14 million) from a new prize she has won to groups tackling climate change and defending nature. The first projects to benefit from Thunberg receiving the inaugural Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity are medical aid for indigenous communities in the Amazon battling the coronavirus pandemic and a push to make "ecocide" an international crime. The 17-year-old said in a video posted on Instagram that the award was "more money than I can even begin to imagine" and she hoped it would help her "do more good in…
Read More
Facebook
Twitter
Linkedin
Instagram