A Sustainable Life: Check your tyres – you might be adding unnecessary microplastics to the environment
SAMANTHA GARRARD, a marine ecosystem services researcher at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, explains why maintaining optimal tyre pressure is important…
Explainer – Why are West and Central Africa’s floods so devastating this year?
Dakar, Senegal Reuters Unusually intense seasonal rains have drenched swathes of West and Central Africa since June, unleashing deadly floods that have affected millions and submerged farmland in 19 countries. Below are factors that are making the floods worse and data on the scale of their impact. An aerial view of the flooded Obagi community […]
Essay: Rivers worldwide are running dry – here’s why and what we can do about it
Scholar CATHERINE E RUSSELL looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at how the world’s rivers are changing – and why…
Postcards: Without land, Bangladesh’s Manta people live – and die – on boats
ZAKIR HOSSAIN CHOWDHURY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that after eroding Bangladeshi rivers stole their land, climate change and overfishing threaten the life the Manta people have built on water…
From sewage to oasis: Female duo create Johannesburg green corridor
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from South Africa on an initiative to revive one of Johannesburg’s largest rivers – a model they hope can be used elsewhere across the country…
Fears of evictions as Bangladesh gives rivers legal rights
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation A ruling by Bangladesh’s top court granting rivers the same legal rights as people could hurt the poor fishing and farming communities that depend on them, human rights activists said. The Supreme Court declared this week that all Bangladesh’s rivers had the legal status of living entities, a move aimed at […]
At least 16 killed in Nigeria after New Year’s Eve church service
World Watch Monitor At least 16 people were killed as gunmen opened fire at churchgoers returning from a midnight service on New Year’s Eve in Omuku, a town in Nigeria’s southern Rivers state. According to the BBC, the New Year’s Eve fireworks initially made it difficult for people to realise that shots were being fired and […]