Beyond Plastics Offers Next President Agenda to Protect Public Health and...
The group Beyond Plastics on Wednesday expressed hope that the next U.S. president "is up for the challenge" of reversing course on the annual...
Republican AGs Urge Supreme Court to Halt Biden Methane Rule
Two dozen Republican-led states on Tuesday asked the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court to pause the Biden administration's rule intended to slash methane emissions by...
‘Historic Victory’ as Biden BLM Restores Protections for 28 Million Acres...
Indigenous tribes and conservation groups applauded the Biden administration on Tuesday for listening to the demands of Alaska Natives, who have called on the...
To Defeat Trump, Sunrise Mobilizes to Reach 1.5M Young Voters in...
The Sunrise Movement on Tuesday launched a campaign program in support of Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, aiming to reach 1.5 million...
‘What Real Eldership Looks Like’: 29 Senior Climate Protesters Arrested at...
The "Summer of Heat on Wall Street" protests continued Tuesday with at least 29 elders arrested while blocking Citibank's New York City headquarters to...
Amid Soaring Temps, Heat-Related Deaths Have More Than Doubled Since 1999
As 55 million people in the U.S. Midwest faced heat alerts on Monday, research published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association...
Pacific Islands Summit Highlights Disproportionate Climate Impacts
As more than 1,500 delegates from over 40 nations gathered in Tonga for the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting, climate defenders on Monday...
US-Trained Military in Uganda Targets Oil Pipeline Protesters
Police and soldiers from Uganda's U.S.-trained army cracked down on demonstrators at two Monday protests against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, continuing the...
Federal Judge Gives Louisiana Polluters a ‘Free Pass’ to Harm Communities...
A right-wing federal judge in Louisiana on Thursday permanently blocked two federal agencies from enforcing civil rights legislation that could protect Black communities from...
Shut Out of Treaty Summit, Campaigners Call for Elimination of Plastic...
Amid concerns over the exclusion of Indigenous leaders, environmental advocates, and scientists from a four-day summit beginning Saturday in Bangkok to help advance a...
Outrage Brewing Over Starbucks CEO’s Private Jet ‘Supercommute’
Green groups' anger percolated this week after it was revealed that Brian Niccol,
Starbucks' new CEO, will "supercommute" approximately 1,000 miles between one of...
In Samoa, UN Chief Says Low-Lying Island Nations Face ‘Annihilation’ by...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned in Samoa on Thursday that low-lying Pacific island nations face the threat of "annihilation" from rising sea levels,...
Disrupting Punchbowl News Event, Climate Advocates Say Exxon ‘Should Have No...
Climate campaigners on Wednesday called out and even disrupted a Punchbowl News event on the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago because...
Gulf Coast Advocates: 2024 Election Is ‘Inflection Point’ for Climate Justice
A second Trump presidency would be a "complete disaster" for the global climate and for Gulf Coast communities bearing the brunt of the buildout...
Arctic Warming Threatens to Set Off Toxic ‘Mercury Bomb,’ Study Warns
A study published Thursday in Environmental Research Letters warns that Arctic warming could unleash toxic mercury currently contained in rapidly thawing permafrost, potentially threatening...
‘Public Health Emergency’: Report Calls for Multi-Agency Action to Address PFAS...
Environmental Working Group, a research and advocacy nonprofit, released a roadmap on Thursday calling for a comprehensive government program to address the PFAS contamination...
Over 1,000 Disaster Survivors Demand DOJ Probe Into Big Oil Climate...
Over 1,000 survivors of extreme weather events on Thursday demanded a federal investigation into Big Oil's role in perpetuating the climate crisis, adding to...
‘Major Power Milestone’: US Green Groups Cheer Wind, Solar Overtaking Coal
U.S. climate advocates this week are celebrating new federal data that show wind and solar have generated more power than coal during the first...
Project 2025 Would Add 2.7 Billion Tons of CO2, Subtract 1.7...
The California-based think tank Energy Innovation on Wednesday published a report showing that the right-wing Project 2025 manifesto, if implemented by a Republican administration,...
UN ‘Pact for the Future’ Decried for Not Even Including the...
A group of 77 former world leaders, Nobel laureates, and scientists on Tuesday called on United Nations member countries to reintroduce into an upcoming...
Ecuador Fails to Eliminate Gas Flaring Despite Court Order: Amnesty
More than three years after a court ruling that left a group of young women hopeful that their legal action had helped "restore nature"...
Climate Crisis Fueled Surge in UK Property Insurance Payouts, Says Industry...
A trade group for the British insurance industry said Monday that extreme weather helped drive property insurance payouts to a record quarterly high over...
Outrage as NYPD Arrests Cello-Playing Grandfather at Citibank Climate Protest
Climate campaigners expressed incredulous outrage Thursday following the arrest of a 63-year-old Extinction Rebellion activist who violated a dubious restraining order by playing a...
Biden Urged to Make Export-Import Bank Stop Fueling Climate Crisis
Climate advocates on Wednesday formally urged the Biden administration to instruct the United States' export credit agency to stop financially supporting activities that...
Climate Movement Says Tim Walz for VP an ‘Encouraging Sign’
The U.S. climate movement on Tuesday celebrated Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris' choice of Tim Walz as her running mate, despite concerns about the...
Shell Slammed for ‘Planet-Wrecking’ Profits as Temperatures Soar to New Heights
A little more than a week after Earth endured its four hottest days on record, fossil fuel giant Shell announced higher second-quarter profits than...
Outrage as Senate Panel Advances Manchin-Barrasso Permitting Bill
A bipartisan energy permitting reform bill introduced last week in the U.S. Senate—and described by one campaigner as "the biggest giveaway in decades to...
7 Green Groups That Didn’t Back Biden Just Endorsed Harris as...
Progressive climate and environmental advocacy groups on Wednesday stressed the threat posed by the Republican presidential ticket and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, the...
Faith Leaders Chain Themselves to Citi HQ to Protest Fossil Fuel...
Two dozen faith leaders and their supporters were arrested on Tuesday after chaining themselves to the doors of Citigroup's New York City headquarters to...
‘Worrisome’: Global Methane Spike Imperils Climate Goals, Study Warns
Methane emissions are rising faster than expected, a new study has warned, and the surge is putting global climate goals at risk.
The study,
published...
BP Condemned Over ‘Mammoth Profits’ as Fossil Fuels Wreak Havoc on...
The London-based oil giant BP announced Tuesday that it hauled in $2.8 billion in profit during the second quarter of the year as the...
Working-Class Climate Protesters Arrested at JD Vance’s Senate Office
Eight of about 150 climate campaigners with the youth-led Sunrise Movement were arrested at a Monday protest at the U.S. Capitol office of Sen....
‘Where Have All the Butterflies Gone?’ Low Count Portends Sad Future...
A U.K. conservation charity sounded the alarm on Monday after a yearly butterfly count turned up a record low number of butterflies so far.
Participants...
Trump Would Let Industry Sway PFAS Rules and Endanger Public Health,...
A second Trump administration would cripple the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ability to protect the public from toxic "forever chemicals," The Guardian reported Sunday,...
Moms and Kids Protest Fossil Fuel Expansion at Citigroup CEO’s Home
Hundreds of activists, largely mothers and their kids, protested outside Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser's luxury apartment building in New York City on Saturday, calling...
Critics of East African Crude Oil Pipeline Target AIG in NYC
The "Summer of Heat" continues—both in terms of record-breaking temperatures driven by fossil fuels and a series of nonviolent direct actions targeting Wall Street...
Country Profile : DRC Water
The DRC is the most water-rich country in Africa. It accounts for approximately 52 percent of Africa's surface water reserves and 23 percent of...
Mobilizing finance to build climate-resilient, sustainable African cities
In Africa, the current population of around 1.1 billion will double by 2050 and more than 80% of that increase will occur in cities....
Interview with Seth M. Siegel – Prominent Water Expert
Question ADM: Why Water?
Answer Seth: I got involved with water policy issues for two reasons: First, there aren't enough people talking about water, whether...
Water Realities
In the Agrifrica Digital Magazine we covered the realities of Water from various countries. Hereunder the snapshot of a few Countries Challenges & Solutions,...
Why Water?
When we launched Agrifrica.com, we thought about the issues around the Future of Earth and our collective well-being. We discussed about the important elements...
aWhere in Kenya
aWhere, Inc, a leading provider of agricultural weather data and analytics, announced last month a new agreement with the government of Kenya. Under the...
AfDB to launch flagship publication on land reform in Africa
The African Natural Resources Centre (ANRC) of the African Development Bank Group will today launch a publication containing a series of research-based articles by...
Export restrictions effect agriculture markets
The global food supply chain, as well as demand for agricultural products, faces an unprecedented threat from the coronavirus pandemic.
Livelihoods have been destroyed and...