By Nnaemeka Meribe
If nothing is done soon to combat climate change, the number of armed conflicts raging in Africa is likely to increase, and this may swell the number of deaths from war, according to a new report.
Climate change, according to Wikipaedia, is a change in the statistical distribution of weather over periods of time [...]
*By Mary Crewe
The HIV/AIDS pandemic grows from and contributes to poverty, hunger, exploitation, migration, lack of education and a failure of political will and imagination.
In most cases the reaction to the pandemic has been to describe “what is” and to find attempts to manage the existing status quo and protect it from anticipated effects.
Rather, our [...]
Imagine if lights went out in the middle of a match between Brazil’s Samba Boys and South Africa’s Bafana Bafana during quarters at the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa? What would follow - riots, probably.
For ardent soccer fans, take heart, Philips Lighting is coming to the rescue, courtesy of the sun, with a [...]
Rachel Shebesh, a parliamentarian in the Republic of Kenya and chair of the African Parliamentarian Initiative for Climate Risk Reduction, has been appointed as the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction champion for disaster risk reduction in Africa.
The appointed was made this week during the launch of the Black and Green, Ready to Lead campaign [...]
Urban workers could suffer most from climate change as the cost of food drives them into poverty, according to a new study that quantifies the effects of climate on the world’s poor populations.
A team led by Purdue University researchers examined the potential economic influence of adverse climate events, such as heat waves, drought and heavy [...]
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