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    Going green: Ethiopia's bid to plant four billion trees

    01 Aug 2019

    Ethiopia plans to plant a mind-boggling four billion trees by October, as part of a global movement to restore forests to help fight climate change and protect resources.

    What it’s like to follow veganism

    30 May 2019

    Read on to find out what's veganism, and how shifting to a vegan diet and discipline can do a world of good.

    Cellphone 'Tower of Babel' highlights China e-waste problem

    31 Mar 2019

    A Chinese artist unveiled a sculpture made of discarded mobile phones and shaped like a cell tower in a bid to highlight the problem of electronic waste.

    UAE offers aid to cyclone-hit Mozambique

    21 Mar 2019

    A 97-metric-tonne shipment of humanitarian aid sent by members of Dubai’s International Humanitarian City arrived at Maputo International Airport

    Earth's 2019 resources 'budget' spent by July 29: Report

    30 Jul 2019

    Mankind will have used up its allowance of natural resources such as water, soil and clean air for all of 2019 by Monday, a report said.

    Poland needs to save water for non-rainy day

    28 Jul 2019

    Poland, which is located at the confluence of oceanic and continental climate zones, has never had much water. It receives less rainfall than countries further west, while the rate of evaporation is comparable.

    Iceland tries to bring back trees demolished by Vikings

    17 Jul 2019

    Before being colonised by the Vikings, Iceland was lush with forests but the fearsome warriors razed everything to the ground and the nation is now struggling to reforest the island.

    West African farm 'bootcamp' gets green entrepreneurs into shape

    09 Jun 2019

    Machetes in hand and wearing a straw hat against the sun, the participants of an "agro-bootcamp" in the farmlands of the West African nation of Benin harvest maize, cowpeas and rice.

    ​You may be eating a credit card's worth of plastic each week

    12 Jun 2019

    Plastic pollution is so widespread in the environment that you may be ingesting five grams a week, the equivalent of eating a credit card, a study commissioned by the environmental charity WWF International said on Wednesday.

    In Nigeria's Lagos, aquatic weed plagues waterways

    01 Jun 2019

    Traffic jams on the snarled up roads of Nigeria's megacity of Lagos are legendary, but a growing problem is also clogging up the waterways of Africa's biggest city — water hyacinths.

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