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Third of Congo basin’s tropical forests are under threat from fossil fuel investments, undermining climate action, report warns

The United Nations has blamed a Cameroon version of an old style US Wild West style Range War over control of water and territory on climate change.

Exclusive: African state says it has agreements with oil companies in Lake Chad area

One of the worlds top three food corporations, Cargill, announced a plan to reduce deforestation caused by their cocoa farmers. The plan, Protect our Planet, promises 100 percent traceability of cocoa beans in Cote d’Ivoire...

Humanity has a plastic bottle addiction, purchasing one million a minute, and many bottles wind up not in recycling bins but in our oceans. Cameroon-based nonprofit Madiba & Nature is pioneering a creative use for all...

Lake Chad in Africa spanned over 770,000 square miles in 50,000 B.C., according to Cameroon-based architecture firm Hermann Kamte & Associates (HKA). But over the centuries it has shrunk, dwindling to a mere 1,544 square...

North Korea is the latest country to ratify the Paris climate agreement, becoming the 22nd nation to submit its ratification document to the United Nations...

A solar-powered water project in Cameroon’s arid north has enabled villagers to fight poverty by starting small businesses

Potentially lethal methane at the bottom of Lake Kivu is being harnessed to solve Rwanda’s energy poverty, but the project needed complex funding agreements to get off the ground

In 1986, Cameroon's Lake Nyos was the scene of an extraordinary and devastating natural disaster: the lake quite literally exploded, releasing 80 million cubic meters of CO2 and causing the suffocating deaths of around 1,700...

In the 16th century, Italy produced Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel, but now many of the world’s art museums are filled with trash. Not any old trash, mind you. Pascale Marthine Tayou’s latest installation...

It is sometimes hard to reconcile the changes our society has undergone since the industrial revolution. In the 16th century, Italy produced Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel, but now so many of our art museums are filled...

Photo via Shutterstock When you think of the iconic animals of Africa, the lion is probably on the top of your list. Sadly, according to report by conservation group LionAid, a total of just 640 lions remain in all of western...

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Last year, the Bill Gates Foundation ploughed US $1.5 million into the first fecal sludge to bio diesel conversion plant in Accra, Ghana. The plant, which is run by Colombia University professor Kartik Chandran, the Kwame...