Clean energy should not be accessible to rich countries only. Instead, it should help those nations that mostly suffer from the lack of electricity, according to...
David Beckham has united with Prince William and the retired Chinese basketball star Yao Ming to campaign against the illegal ivory trade that is pushing endangered...
Two huge underground water sources have been discovered in the Turkana region of northern Kenya. The largest of the two aquifers, found deep underneath the desert,...
A leading impact investment firm Gate Global Impact (GGI) has paired up with the African satellite telecommunications firm Indigo Group to provide fast internet access to...
KE Adventure Travel is an independent adventure holiday specialist that offers over 300 adventure experiences around the globe. Covering trekking, walking, discovery, mountain biking, climbing, safaris,...
After security forces broke into camps of protesters in Egypt on Wednesday, killing hundreds, campaigners have called upon the UK government to end all arms sales...
Green investment in South Africa could inspire growth and create jobs, according to a new study. The report claims that investment in a low-carbon and resource...
Logging in the Congo basin has slowed, a new study has suggested. The research, published in in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B journal,...
Environmental instability often fuels dangerous social conflict, writes Jim Sanders, a retired west Africa watcher for various federal agencies in the US, in an article that...
The German Bundestag, the country’s parliament, voted in 2012 to cut state subsidies for solar power in an attempt to control rocketing surcharges on electricity bills....
Senior UN officials have called on the international community to address social and economic inequalities in order to achieve sustainability. At a General Assembly debate, UN...
The UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has identified some of the biggest challenges faced by the world as the eradication of extreme poverty and promoting sustainable consumption....
Barack Obama has called for a new model for African countries to improve their self-sufficiency in the energy and food production sectors, and for the continent...
Doug Balfour, CEO of philanthropic consulting firm Geneva Global, writes about the power of collective action in tackling key international development challenges. You can’t travel around the...
One of the criticisms of solar power and other renewable energies are their apparent status as ‘subsidy junkies’; another is their efficiency. In a recent interview,...