University of Cape Town provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. South Africa is feeling the impacts of global warming. Heat is frequent and more intense. Human-induced climate change ...

Civil society organisations are demanding major revisions to South Africa’s draft national climate commitments, arguing that they lack ambition, coherence and accountability. They say the draft second ...

When it shone, it killed. Now as it rains, it is still killing us. As Kenya and the larger eastern Africa grapple with flooding, the contrasting, yet deadly effects of the emerging weather patterns ...

WASHINGTON, March 8, 2024 - The World Bank Board of Directors today approved an additional $40 million in IDA* grants to the Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR** Climate Research for Africa project (AICCRA ...

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is one of the world’s most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, enduring ever higher temperatures, rising seas, droughts, floods, intense water ...

Climate scientists present a realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation, smoke and the atmosphere. The authors find that increasing greenhouse ...

South Africa is well-positioned to confront significant longstanding challenges that have been holding the economy back: declining real per-capital income, persistent unemployment, pervasive poverty, ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks during the announcement of the results in South Africa's general elections in Johannesburg, South Africa on Sunday, June 2, 2024. While South Africa made ...