
Melting chocolate: climate change threatens West Africa’s cocoa dominance
Hundreds of thousands of small-scale cocoa farmers in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire will be forced to adapt or relocate by higher temperatures
Hundreds of thousands of small-scale cocoa farmers in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire will be forced to adapt or relocate by higher temperatures
Though improved, global hunger level “unacceptable”
Government computers have been illegally dumped in developing countries, raising national security and environmental concerns, it can be revealed.
Several tonnes of illegal "bushmeat" from animals ranging from primates to crocodiles are being smuggled in luggage each week through one of Europe's busiest airports, researchers said today.
Guinea worm, the agonizing water-borne parasite, could be eradicated within “two to three years” from Southern Sudan, health officials say.
The Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), which seeks to ban the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of these weapons, has been ratified and will enter into force on 1 August 2010.
A new report issued today by New York-based Blacksmith Institute and Green Cross Switzerland highlights 12 successful approaches in use today to clean up some of the world’s worst polluted places.
Fourteen African heads of state are due to launch a scheme aimed at ridding the continent of almost all malaria-related deaths within six years.
With cross-border price-undercutting, mounting debt and a lack of buyers, many tomato farmers in Ghana's Upper East Region are turning to suicide.
A group of african and international civil society organisations have compiled a report, about the lack of transparency in mining contracts, as well as the revenue that national budgets forego because of excessive mining tax concessions as well as [...]