The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers: William Edge / shutterstock If the UK is to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, over one-third of its sheep and cows will have to go, with their fields being replaced by huge new …
Tanzania’s Maasai are being forced off their ancestral land – the tactics the government uses: Tanzania has a long and troubling history of evicting communities from their lands. This has happened under the guise of expanding protected conservation areas, which make up over 40% of its territory. In recent years, the Maasai of the Ngorongoro …
Plankton mark seasons in the sea, just like leaves and flowers on land: Marine phytoplankton, magnified 400 times. Ekky Ilham/Shutterstock Britain’s seas are rich in wildlife, but many of its species can only be seen with a microscope. These are the plankton – tiny plants and animals found throughout the ocean that are the foundation …
Avalanches can grow 100 times larger under the sea than on land – here’s why they’re a risk to the internet: ZHMURCHAK/Shutterstock Underwater avalanches are powerful natural events that happen all the time under the surface of the ocean. They are impossible to see and extremely difficult to measure, which means we know little about …
Raising revenue from land: what African cities might learn from Hong Kong’s unique land-lease system: Land prices across many African cities are soaring. This is because land is a city’s key asset. As urbanisation progresses, demand for land will rise, and therefore so will land prices, because the supply of land in cities is limited. …
Kenya’s devastating floods expose decades of poor urban planning and bad land management: Floods in Kenya killed at least 169 people between March and April 2024. The most catastrophic of these deaths occurred after a flash flood swept through a rural village killing 42 people. Death and destruction have also occurred in the capital, Nairobi, …
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Ukraine war: it may be stalemate on land, but Kyiv’s Black Sea success could bring wider benefits this winter: As the attention of the world centres on the war in Gaza, many commentators believe that the war in Ukraine is becoming a stalemate. To date, Ukraine’s highly anticipated summer counteroffensive has not resulted in any …
Farming tuna on land heralded as a win for sustainability – but there are serious concerns around animal welfare: Intense fishing pressure has taken a toll on Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks. Steven4z/Shutterstock Atlantic bluefin tuna used to be caught only relatively rarely, mainly by sports fishermen in North America. But this all changed in the …
Israel-Hamas war: hard experience says a land war won’t go well – and faltering international support suggests the world knows it: For the past four decades, Israel’s experience of fighting paramilitary militias has been grim. Its last major operation was in southern Lebanon, which started with Operation Peace for Galilee in 1982. While initially successful, …
Gaza: hundreds of tons of supplies are poised to enter but the strip remains cut off by land, air and sea: The population of the Gaza Strip remains cut off from basic supplies like water, food, and electricity since Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, ordered a “complete siege”. No aid has been able to reach …
Forests v farmland: what the world would look like if we allocated all our land in the optimal way: Martins Silgailis / shutterstock What would the world look like if we could decide – globally and collectively – to allocate all our land in the optimal way? Where would we grow food and find water, …
Zulu land dispute: Ingonyama Trust furore highlights the problem of insecure land tenure for millions of South Africans in rural areas: The recent fallout between the Zulu king, Misuzulu, and his now late traditional prime minister, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, over the running of the Ingonyama Trust highlights a pervasive problem in South Africa: insecure land tenure …
South Africa’s government has been buying land and leasing it to black farmers. Why it’s gone wrong and how to fix it: The progress with South Africa’s land reform programme has not been properly monitored. This has resulted in an incorrect understanding of the real progress made to correct the racial distribution of farm land …
Chandrayaan-3: India hopes to land a rover on the Moon for the first time: The Vikram lander should carry the rover to the lunar surface. ISRO, Author provided On Wednesday August 23, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) mission Chandrayaan-3 will deploy its lander and rover to the surface of the Moon. As the name …
South Africa’s Land Bank can be fixed: change the funding model and narrow the focus: Land Bank played an influential role in the development of South African agriculture. GettyImages It is disheartening to see how many South Africans, including parliamentarians, have forgotten the simple and influential role the Land and Agricultural Development Bank (Land Bank) …
Customary land governance holds in Ghana. But times are changing and not for the better: Land ownership disputes are a common feature in Ghana's legal system Wikimedia Commons Ghana went into colonisation with two broad types of customary land arrangement. In one, a traditional leader was the custodian of the land and gave his followers …
Ghana’s informal mining harms health and the land – but reforms must work with people, not against them: Poverty is prevalent in most gold mining communities in Ghana. Wikimedia Commons Artisanal small-scale mining has been practised in Ghana for over a century. In 2018, small-scale miners generated 2.1 million ounces of gold, accounting for 43.1% …