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Environment News tagged with Africa

Giant Crack in Africa Formed in Just Days
Environment  (tags: Earth, world, crust, crack, research, africa )

Katie
- 22 days ago - newscientist.com
A crack in the Earth's crust - which could be the forerunner to a new ocean - ripped open in just days in 2005, a new study suggests. The opening, located in the Afar region of Ethiopia, presents a unique opportunity for geologists to study how...........
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Climate Change Will Devastate Africa, Top UK Scientist Warn
Environment  (tags: world, environment, Africa, globalwarming, climate-change, weather, humans, protection, ecosystems, climate, ClimateChange, habitat, habitatdestruction, globalwarming )

Cal
- 29 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Professor Sir Gordon Conway warns continent will face intense droughts, famine, disease and floods
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Lake Nakuru Becomes Africa's First IBA-Branded National Park
Environment  (tags: environment, National Park, Africa, habitat, protection, nature, wildlife )

Cher
- 44 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Lake Nakuru National Park, famous for its population of up to 1.5 million non-breeding Lesser Flamingo, has become the first National Park in Africa to be branded as an Important Bird Area (IBA).
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Africa's Burning Charcoal Problem
Environment  (tags: Environment, Africa, charcoal, fuel, unregulated trade, ClimateChange, globalwarming, pollution )

Dee
- 63 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
At a road block in western Tanzania, miles from anywhere, a uniformed official raises a flagged barrier. Nearby is a spill of black, like an oil slick.
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PETITION -- Tell Daewoo to Stop Stealing Madagascar's Rainforests.
Environment  (tags: Madagascar, Daewoo, climate, ClimateChange, rainforests, Africa, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, environment, forests, globalwarming, green, greenhousegases, habitat, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, politics, pollution )

Jesse
- 160 days ago - rainforestportal.org
The island of Madagascar is a veritable Noah's Ark of biodiversity, and this natural wealth is the country's primary treasure and opportunity for future ecologically sustainable development.
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Our Work in Africa
Environment  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, biodiversity, wildlife, Africa, environment, habitat, protection, nature )

Cher
- 187 days ago - fauna-flora.org
The need for social and economic development in Africa is often seen as the greatest imperative; biodiversity conservation may be overlooked due to a lack of understanding of the links between biodiversity and social and economic well-being.
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Poor Rains to Trigger 'Severe' Crisis in Kenya
Environment  (tags: weather, ecosystems, environment, nature, africa )

Cal
- 210 days ago - africanews.com
Fears are being expressed that another poor rainy season could lead to a 'severe' humanitarian crisis in Kenya. The Kenya meteorological department is predicting the long rains will be poorly distributed and too little.
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LifeStraw : The Most Humanistic Gadget Ever
Environment  (tags: africa, water, pollution, gadgets, science, humans )

Esra
- 469 days ago - vubx.com
LifeStraw is an instrument which instantly purifies the water and makes it ready to drink with the chromatographic techniques and other well-known filter methods. Great for African people who are fighting with the diseases because of dirty water sources
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Satellite Images of Africa Illustrate the Dire State of the Continents Habitats
Environment  (tags: Africa, environment, protection, wildlife, nature, habitat, animals, conservation, ecosystems, climatechange, habitatdestruction, globalwarming, humans, pollution, forests, destruction )

Cher
- 529 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Africa's rapidly changing environmental landscape, from the disappearance of glaciers in Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains to the loss of Cape Town's unique 'fynbos' vegetation, has been presented to the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment.
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Africa: "Environmentalist? Is That a Politician With Food for Our People?"
Environment  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', africa, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', conflict, corruption, ethics, freedoms, government, humanrights, news, politics, society, world, conservation, ecosystems, environment, habitatdestruction, goodnews, protection, nature, humans )

Gavin
- 645 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement has started over 3,000 tree nurseries, produced 20 million trees and involved 50,000 women. "Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come."
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Humans Caused the Earth to Enter a New Epoch?
Environment  (tags: africa, asia, abuse, children, death, diet, environment, ethics, family, food, government, health, healthcare, humans, interesting, investigation, news, prevention, protection, research, risks, safety, science, society, study, treatment, warning, conserva )

Michael
- 654 days ago - alternet.org
With more than half of all soils on Earth now being cultivated for food crops, grazed, or logged for wood, how to sustain Earth's soils is becoming a major scientific and policy issue. Dr. Richter cites Africa as an example of this challenge. There, wides
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Threat to African Wildlife Could Upset Delicate Ecosystem Balance: Study
Environment  (tags: conservation, ecosystems, africa )


- 686 days ago - rawstory.com
The pressures on elephants, giraffes and other big mammals could have far-reaching effects on the ecosystem of the sub-Saharan savannah, including disrupting the relationship between acacia trees and insects, researchers said Thursday.
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Benin Tree-Planting Scheme Brings Hope in Anti-AIDS Fight
Environment  (tags: HIV, AIDS, humans, disease, Africa, trees, protection, habitatdestruction, forests, ecosystems, conservation, environment, endangered, wildlife, world )

Mari
- 726 days ago - news.yahoo.com
COME, Benin (AFP) - Anti-AIDS campaigners in the west African state of Benin are using a "tree of life" to help fight against the disease, in a project that provides food, revenue and hope for HIV-positive people.
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New Agricultural Technologies May Bring Another Green Revolution
Environment  (tags: US, foreign countries, environment, "green revolution", Africa, food needs in countries, export markets, agricutural technology, livestock vaccines, food-processing )

ON VACATI
- 803 days ago - usinfo.state.gov
Scientists from the United States and other nations want to create another "green revolution," particularly in Africa, that would help poor countries better meet their own food needs and the demands of export markets.
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