Environment
Drought in Africa: 7-month-old babies weigh as much as babies
Mihag Gedi Farah, who is Somalia, is 7 months old but has a modest weight, equivalent to a newborn boy, while his skin resembles an old man.
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10 million Africans are at risk of drought
The UN has just warned: nearly 10 million people in the Horn of Africa in East Africa are facing a humanitarian emergency because the region struggles with the worst dro…
Environment
The world faces the risk of water resource conflict
The risk of conflict of violence related to clean water will increase with the growth of the world population and global warming.
Environment
Africa faces the risk of water depletion
South Africa and some other African countries will face the risk of water depletion in the next few decades.
Environment
Natural disasters cause serious consequences in Africa
At least 30 people have been killed and many injured by widespread flooding after continuous heavy rains in Namibe and southwestern Angola.
Environment
Many African countries lack serious freshwater
The prolonged drought in recent years has caused Uganda, Central Africa, and Kenya to fall into serious scarcity of freshwater, seriously affecting people's lives.
Environment
Arab countries want to develop renewable energy
The Journal of Petroleum and Arab Gas (PGA) has emphasized the important change in Arab energy policy when choosing to develop solar energy.
Environment
East Africa: The desert is at risk of turning into a sea
East Africa is at risk of being separated from Africa, with deserts that can turn into oceans due to earthquakes and volcanoes creating large fissures that cause seawate…
Environment
Use grass to treat the environment and produce fuel
A group of Australian and Chinese scientists said they have developed a new method to reduce soil pollution and can generate energy ...
Environment
Millions of Africans are affected by floods
According to the UN Humanitarian Aid Coordination Office, 377 people died and nearly 1.5 million people were affected by floods in Africa.
Environment
In Chad, 24 people died, 70,000 people lost their homes
Half of the small Central African country, Chad is suffering a huge flood, affecting 145,000 people here. What is worse is that in this area last year suffered a huge dr…
Environment
Africa's strongest volcano erupted
Africa's most powerful active volcano Nyamuragira in Congo suddenly erupted violently on January 2, threatening the ecology of a national park.
Environment
Four white rhinos go north to Africa
On December 20, four northern white rhinos, a rare animal, were brought back to Kenya, their ancestral land from a zoo of the Czech Republic.
Environment
Rhino hunting increased in Asia and Africa
The latest report by TRAFFIC and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said that rhino hunting is increasing worldwide.
Environment
The snow on the 'roof of Africa' will disappear
According to a recent study by scientists at Ohio University (USA), Kilimanjaro snow will disappear within two decades, due to global warming.