More than 90% of the continent’s historically measured glacier area is gone. Scientists are racing to preserve the climate ...

A landmark report by Power Shift Africa warns that Africa faces 'failed adaptation' as the continent receives only $14bn of ...

African climate negotiators at the COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan have delivered a clear and urgent message – climate diplomacy must hold steady amid escalating global crises, from wars in ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Climate change is having a compounding impact on Africa, while ...

New research highlighted in the journal CABI Reviews suggests that all five subregions of Africa will breach the 1.5°C climate change threshold—the limit stipulated by the Paris Agreement—by 2040 even ...

Thousands of years ago, farmers in West Africa took a wild ancestor of rice and turned it into a crop of their own. But it was difficult to harvest and, over time, globally dominant Asian rice pushed ...

A climate protest against the South African government in 2022. Protesters demanded an emergency renewable energy plan. Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images/Getty Images A landmark climate case is being heard ...

Nearly 600 million people across the African continent still lack access to electricity. Close to one billion rely on traditional biofuels for cooking. Africa is also very vulnerable to climate change ...

Children in Africa are among the most at risk from climate change impacts but are being woefully deprived of the financing necessary to help them adapt, survive and respond to the crisis, the UN ...

The Centre for CSR, West Africa, the sub-region’s leading advocacy organisation for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and ...

The inaugural summit in Kenya’s capital, attended by tens of thousands, was imbued with frustration at Western financial institutions. By Max Bearak Reporting from the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi ...