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The Tree of Authenticity review – talking tree explains Congo’s struggle to overcome colonial past
The Guardian
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July 7, 2025
In his first solo directorial feature, photographer and visual artist Sammy Baloji excavates the colonial legacies in the Congo basin, the second largest tropical forest in the world. Building on a decades-spanning archive from the Yangambi...
Lula Calls for New Financing Model to Tackle Sustainable Development and Climate Crisis
teleSUR
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Brazilian Prsident Lula da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, July 4, 2025. Photo: EFE July 4, 2025 Hour: 1:37 pm On Friday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva urged the creation of a new financing model to address sustainable development challenges and the...
Global Environment Facility approves $9m grant to support landscape restoration in Rwanda
Africa Business Communities
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Communities in Rwanda’s Southern Province are set to benefit from restored ecosystems, improved agricultural productivity, and expanded sustainable livelihood opportunities in areas vulnerable to climate-related shocks. Thanks to a newly approved...
Greenpeace Africa calls for strong global leadership from BRICS in pushing climate action and nature protection
Greenpeace International
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July 4, 2025
Johannesburg, South Africa – As BRICS leaders gather in Brazil, African civil society voices—led by Greenpeace Africa—are urging the bloc to move beyond symbolism and deliver bold, people-centered action for climate justice, ecological protection,...
Rwanda To Restore Ecosystems And Boost Climate Resilience In The Nyungweruhango Corridor
MENAFN
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July 4, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) Communities in Rwanda's Southern Province are set to benefit from restored ecosystems, improved agricultural productivity, and expanded sustainable livelihood opportunities in areas vulnerable to climate-related shocks. Thanks...
Forest fossils from Earth’s largest mass extinction carry a climate warning
Earth.com
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Tropical greenery once blanketed the supercontinent of Pangea, recycling carbon and regulating climate. Then, 252 million years ago, those forests collapsed – and with them, Earth’s primary brake on rising CO2. A new study led by researchers at...
Climate change has doubled the world’s heatwaves: how Africa...
Modern Ghana
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A global review of extreme heat has found that between May 2024 and May 2025, nearly half the world's people (49% or 4 billion) suffered through an extra 30 days of temperatures that were hotter than those experienced 90% of the time between 1991...
Climate change has doubled the world’s heatwaves: how Africa is affected
The Conversation
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July 2, 2025
A global review of extreme heat has found that between May 2024 and May 2025, nearly half the world’s people (49% or 4 billion) suffered through an extra 30 days of temperatures that were hotter than those experienced 90% of the time between 1991...
Experiencing extreme weather and disasters is not enough to change views on climate action, study shows
The Conversation
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July 3, 2025
Climate change has made extreme weather events such as bushfires and floods more frequent and more likely in recent years, and the trend is expected to continue. These events have led to human and animal deaths, harmed physical and mental health,...
Almost One Million Cigarette Butts Collected on Global ‘No Butts Day’
Pressenza
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July 7, 2025
Utrecht, July 6th, 2025 On July 5th thousands of volunteers around the world collected 964,000 cigarette butts from their streets and nature. No Butts Day is an annual event that mobilises people from every continent. They call on governments to...
Iranian students at University of Louisville face uncertainty after travel ban
WFPL - Kentucky
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July 7, 2025
Sohail Saheb aspires to keep Louisville safe from floods. As a geotechnical engineering student at University of Louisville, he studies how soil absorbs water with an eye on flooding prevention. He went to Iran, where he’s from, in May because his...
Today in History: Our forests invaluable, let's protect it – Akufo-Addo
GhanaWeb
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July 7, 2025
In July 2024, the then President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, called on Ghanaians to protect the nation’s forests, describing them as invaluable assets. He noted that while forests offer ecological, economic, and cultural benefits, they...
Liberia: President Boakai Lights Up Candle National Healing, Reconciliation, and Unity Candle
Front Page Africa
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July 7, 2025
Monrovia– As part of ongoing efforts to foster peace, unity, and national renewal Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr., President of the Republic of Liberia, yesterday lit the National Healing, Reconciliation, and Unity Candle at the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf...
LiFE and death: Indian government’s climate doublespeak
Meer
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June 30, 2025
The climate crisis, already wreaking havoc across the world, requires urgent action. Among those claiming to be at the forefront of this is India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. With his penchant for labels and acronyms, in 2021 he presented the...
Environmental forum helps prepare for a storm, and more community events
Nola - Louisiana
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COMMUNITY EVENTS WEATHERING THE STORM: AN ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM: Healthy Community Services hosts panels of professionals such as meteorologists and young environmentalists to talk about how they mentally prepare for storms and the subsequent...
Eni Inaugurates Biofuel Feedstock Plant in Congo-Brazzaville
Rigzone
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June 30, 2025
Eni SpA has inaugurated its first vegetable oil extraction plant in the Republic of the Congo, unlocking new feedstock capacity for its biorefineries. The facility in Loudima, in the southern part of the Central African country, can produce up to...
Kore Potash Secures $2.2 Billion Term Sheet For Project In Republic of Congo
Benzinga
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United Kingdom-based potash developer Kore Potash has signed a non-binding term sheet agreement with Swiss investment platform OWI-RAMS to secure $2.2 billion in financing for its flagship Kola Project in the Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)....
Showbiz: ‘I’ve never wanted to run from my father’s incredible legacy but I do want people to hear my voice’
ATV Today
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July 6, 2025
Judi Dentures casts her views over recent showbiz and telly stories… Sorry you didn’t get Oasis tickets cards launch for gutted fans With Oasis’ long-anticipated reunion tour finally underway just 10% of the 14 million people that tried for...
London climate week receives boost as Trump policies weigh on New York event
WKZO - Michigan
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June 27, 2025
By Virginia Furness and Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) -London’s climate week attracted record attendance, bolstered by the cloud hanging over its sister event in New York in September as the U.S. government turns its back on efforts to stop global...
Biomass satellite mission sends first images of Earth's most extreme environments
Earth.com
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Carrying the first P-band synthetic-aperture radar ever flown in space, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Biomass satellite lifted off less than two months ago with a simple but demanding goal: to chart the trunks, branches, and stems of every...