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A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explores the effects of Saharan dust clouds on atmospheric methane. Its findings have potentially far-reaching implications for understanding the global methane budget and reasons behind the accelerating increase in atmospheric methane. The study, entitled "Photocatalytic Chlorine Atom Production on Mineral Dust-Sea Spray…

The last few weeks have seen large scale floodings in southwestern China and northwestern India including its capital, Delhi. The deluge in China and India is no exception to an emerging trend of recurrent monsoon anomalies. Lives are being lost and infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed. The impacts being felt in many parts of the region amount to billions of dollars. Added to this is a…

Healthy soils are essential for achieving climate neutrality, a clean and circular economy and stopping desertification and land degradation. They are also essential to reverse biodiversity loss, provide healthy food and safeguard human health. The EU soil strategy for 2030 provides the framework and concrete steps towards protecting and restoring soils, and ensuring that they are…

Africa needs an extra USD 1.6 trillion by 2030 - USD 194 billion annually - to achieve its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To attract more and better investment and fill that gap, African governments and their partners should improve information to investors, increase the capacity of African development finance institutions, and boost regional projects, according to the 2023 edition of…

One story widely told in the villages of Niger is that the transformation began when two young farmers returned late to their fields after working during the dry season at a distant mine. With the rains already starting, they planted their crops without first clearing their fields of vegetation. To everyone’s surprise, a few months later this apparent indolence resulted in better crop yields than…

Indigenous peoples are the keepers of unique cultures, traditions, languages and knowledge. Here are ten things you might not know about how they live and what they value. 1. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ARE EVERYWHERE There are more than 476 million Indigenous people in the world, spread across 90 countries and representing 5,000 different cultures. They make up 6.2 percent of the…