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Africa and climate change: Adapt, survive, thrive?

Patrick Luganda
1 August 2007
Source: SciDev.Net

Faced with a changing climate, projects to help Africans adapt are springing up across the continent, reports Patrick Luganda.
Across the continent of Africa, the landscape is changing. The snowy caps of Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya and Elgon are melting. The shorelines of [...]

African ecologists unite for environment

ESEA aims to protect east Africa’s ecology
Kennedy Abwao
10 May 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
[NAIROBI] East African scientists have united in a bid to protect the region’s ecology and biodiversity from changing climatic conditions, the invasion of pests, and unsustainable development.
The newly formed Ecological [...]

UNEP: climate change behind Darfur conflict

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UNEP: climate change behind Darfur conflict
Kennedy Abwao
29 June 2007
Source: SciDev.Net

A family at an internally displaced persons camp in Sudan

[NAIROBI] Climate change that transformed the Darfur region from sustainable agricultural land into a partial desert is behind the escalating conflict, according to a United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) assessment.
The study, published last week (22 June), [...]