Sponsored content: Research shows how social and technological innovations can help pastoralists cope with increasingly unpredictable rainfall patterns
Sponsored content: As climate change puts pressure on the already vulnerable drylands of Africa, young people are changing the narrative to fight for resilient futures
A shortage of weather stations across Africa shouldn’t stop climate victims accessing critical funds, scientists say
Sponsored content: Community initiatives in Kenya and Bangladesh are helping girls to resist the pressures of child marriage and forge their own paths
Sponsored content: Climate impacts span vast areas, so adaptation must be discussed at multiple levels and across political and geographical divides
Sponsored content: Climate change is making life hard for livestock herders in drylands, but sustainable practices can support resilience and carbon-rich ecosystems
Sponsored content: Kenyan women enrolled with the BOMA Project have turned to making face masks for income as livestock markets are shut down
Plans for an 8,000km green belt across the Sahel region have stalled, with fresh funds needed to halt desertification and create sustainable livelihoods
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Sponsored content: Nature-based solutions to help restore and bolster carbon sinks are essential to tackling climate change
Sponsored content: The first Wikipedia edit-a-thon held on climate change in Africa brought together researchers from all over the continent
Global, one-size-fits-all solutions work for cutting emissions, but adapting to warming requires an altogether different approach
The UN climate science panel has released its summary of the evidence around the tougher climate goal demanded by vulnerable countries. We break it down
Studies warn climate change will bring faster warming to subtropical dry areas, making crops like wheat and potatoes unviable
A carbon sink as large as 20 years’ worth of US fossil fuel emissions has been identified in peatland in central Africa’s forests
Plants exposed to more CO2 draw less water through their roots, mitigating the impact of global warming and rainfall shifts
An emerging narrative points to global warming as a driver of conflict in the Sahel ̶ but this risks glossing over the real root causes
NEWS: The last time the Earth saw such a sustained increase was over 11 millennia ago, says US agency
NEWS: Aid agencies warn food could run out for millions as failed rains stoked by El Nino ruin crops in east Africa
NEWS: France’s Francois Hollande and donors put up $4 bn for band of trees stretching 7,100km from Djibouti to Dakar