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Solar Growing Fast In Africa, Where 600 Million Still Lack Electricity [1]

"Companies that bring solar power to some of the poorest homes in Central and West Africa are said to be among the fastest growing on a continent whose governments have long struggled to address some of the world’s worst infrastructure and the complications of climate change."

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Africa [5]
Source: AP [6], 10/08/2024
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Photos Of Vast E-Waste Dumping Ground — And Those Who Make A Living Off It [7]

"When he was just 18 years old, Emmanuel Akatire traveled about 500 miles from his home in Zorko, Ghana, to Accra, the nation’s capital, to find the only work he could — sifting through vast piles of discarded electronics to find valuable scrap metal. A week’s worth of painstaking, often dangerous work, earns him the equivalent of about 60 U.S. dollars."

Chemicals [8]
Consumer [9]
Environmental Health [10]
People & Population [11]
Pollution [12]
Technology [13]
Waste [14]
Public [4]
International [15]
Africa [5]
Source: NPR [16], 10/07/2024
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Carbon Credits: How One Company’s Plan To Help The Planet Went Off The Rails [17]

"C-Quest Capital claimed it could improve people’s lives in Africa with cleaner cookstoves. But an investigation by The Post shows it promised more than it could deliver."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [10]
Laws & Regulations [18]
People & Population [11]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [19]
International [15]
Africa [5]
Source: Washington Post [20], 09/03/2024
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"Tanzania's Maasai Protest Eviction In The Name Of Conservation" [21]

"For a week, the green hills around Tanzania's famous Ngorongoro crater have been chequered with the blood red shuka cloths of tens of thousands of Maasai herdsman protesting their eviction from their land - all in the name of conservation."

Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [23]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [24]
People & Population [11]
Public [4]
Africa [5]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [25], 08/27/2024
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"At Least 30 Dead, Many Missing After Dam Bursts In Eastern Sudan" [26]

"Surging waters have burst through a dam, wiped out at least 20 villages and left at least 30 people dead but probably many more in eastern Sudan, the United Nations said on Monday, devastating a region already reeling from months of civil war."

Disasters [27]
Infrastructure [28]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [4]
Africa [5]
Source: Reuters [30], 08/27/2024
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December 10, 2025

DEADLINE: The Arab Documentary Photography Program [31]

This program will provide up to eight photographers with a $7,000 grant to work on their projects in their Arab country of residence over a period of 10 months. The grant may be used to begin a new project or to complete work on an existing project. Apply by Dec 10, 2025.

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Asia [34]

"TotalEnergies’ Ad Found ‘Misleading’ Over Sustainability Claim" [35]

"A South African advertising regulator found TotalEnergies SE made a “misleading” claim over its commitment to sustainable development, marking the first time a challenge of this kind has been made in the country."

Chemicals [8]
Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [23]
Journalism & Media [33]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Public [4]
International [15]
Africa [5]
Source: Bloomberg Green [36], 08/22/2024
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Nearly 68 Million Suffering From Drought In Southern Africa, Says Bloc [37]

"About 68 million people in Southern Africa are suffering the effects of an El Nino-induced drought which has wiped out crops across the region, the regional bloc SADC said on Saturday."

Agriculture [38]
Climate Change [2]
Disasters [27]
Environmental Health [10]
Food [39]
Natural Resources [24]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [4]
Africa [5]
Source: Reuters [40], 08/20/2024
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The Battle To Protect Congo’s Vast Peatlands [41]

The Congo Basin is home to the biggest network of tropical peatlands in the world, a vast carbon storehouse central to combating the challenge of climate change. A team of reporters made the journey to this little-covered region and returned with an award-winning feature that told the tale not just of the peatlands, but of the people that protect it. The latest Inside Story Q&A.

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Climate Change [2]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [22]
Environmental Politics [23]
Forests [43]
Journalism & Media [33]
Natural Resources [24]
People & Population [11]
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International [15]
Africa [5]
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WHO Declares New Mpox Outbreaks In Africa A Global Health Emergency [44]

"The World Health Organization declared the mpox outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency on Wednesday, with cases confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen countries and a new form of the virus spreading. Few vaccine doses are available on the continent."

Biodiversity [45]
Environmental Health [10]
Wildlife [46]
Public [4]
International [15]
Africa [5]
Source: AP [47], 08/16/2024
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