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Air pollution has an alarming effect on global health. In 2019, it was responsible for 4.2 million global deaths. Inhaling ...
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The scourge of plastic pollution in Africa - MSNThis pollution contaminates soils, streams, drinking water sources, and wildlife habitats. A significant and growing proportion of plastic waste ultimately ends up in the ocean, accumulating at an ...
Air pollution was responsible for 1.1 million deaths across Africa in 2019, with household air pollution—driven largely by indoor cookstoves—accounting for 700,000 fatalities, while increased outdoor ...
Air pollution in Africa. With the support of the World Heart Federation and the Clean Air Fund, we conducted a review to capture a picture of available research on air pollution and CVD in Africa.
Africa continues to grapple with plastic pollution, a waste crisis, and limited investment, activists report, as discussions unfold at the UN climate meetings in Azerbaijan. To shed light on these ...
African leaders must treat plastic pollution as an urgent public health crisis, write global health specialists Sophie Masika and Lorraine Mugambi-Nyaboga. [NAIROBI, SciDev.Net] Microplastics are all ...
Billionaire Elon Musk's development of a supercomputer in Memphis is another environmental blow to a marginalized Black ...
A new study reveals that air pollution, traditional herbal medicines and other environmental exposures are linked to genetic ...
A new international study, published in Nature, offers groundbreaking evidence that environmental exposures—particularly air ...
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Africanews on MSNIn Zimbabwe, metal scrap collecting is reducing environmental pollutionCollecting scrap metal is a way for some of Zimbabwe's poorest people to make a living. But the job is also an environmental ...
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Daily Maverick on MSNAfrica’s G20 priorities kick off with a push for climate and financial reformTired of a system that favours polluters and perpetuates debt, African leaders are demanding climate and debt justice ahead of the G20. Their proposal would fundamentally change how green technology ...
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