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Get ready for ‘hell,’ UN food chief warns amid Ukraine shockwaves
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Get ready for ‘hell,’ UN food chief warns amid Ukraine shockwaves

World Food Programme flags famine risk in Africa and the Middle East as Ukraine war hits supplies.
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Why these West African architects are choosing mud over concrete
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Why these West African architects are choosing mud over concrete

The traditional building material is cooler, cheaper, and requires less energy to make. But convincing villagers in Burkina Faso to stick with mud isn't easy.

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Company plants trees in Burkina Faso to slow desertification in conflict zones

A Belgian-African company operating in Burkina Faso is planting trees to help curb desertification and open up lands for grazing cattle and farming. The project by the company, Hommes et Terre (Men and Earth), is taking place in Burkina Faso's dangerous conflict zones where expanding desertification is a cause for strife.

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Can the ‘Great Green Wall’ carry out Sankara’s ecological, pan-African dream?

Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso's folk-hero president, once marshalled a nation to halt the spread of the Sahara. Decades after his brutal death, a pan-African project of epic scale and ambition is aiming to reverse the creeping desertification that threatens to engulf a vast region, accelerating climate change, migration and conflict.

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Climate crisis could displace 1.2bn people by 2050, report warns

More than 1 billion people face being displaced within 30 years as the climate crisis and rapid population growth drive an increase in migration with "huge impacts" for both the developing and developed worlds, according to an analysis.

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Africa's Great Green Wall just 4% complete halfway through schedule

The world's most ambitious reforestation project, the Great Green Wall of Africa, has covered only 4% of its target area but is more than halfway towards its 2030 completion date, according to a status report.

Africa is humanitarian 'blind spot': The world's top 10 forgotten crises - report
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Africa is humanitarian 'blind spot': The world's top 10 forgotten crises - report

The African continent is a "blind spot" for coverage of the humanitarian crises that are being fuelled by the climate emergency, according to a new analysis.

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UK drops plan to phase out gas boilers by 2035

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Trump vows to overturn Biden's offshore drilling ban

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Trump's advisers push to reshape U.S. climate report

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Op-ed: The real scam — rail against renewables, run away with factories

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Hydrogen hubs test new federal environmental justice rules

CLIMATE
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Wildfire risks are rising fastest in northern Canada, study shows