New grant scheme aims to encourage local climate adaptation ideas.

A voracious snail is blighting rice farms in Central Kenya and its spread could be imminent, writes Gilbert Nakweya.

African governments must partner with research institutions to build capacity for the development of therapeutics, vaccines and diagnostics.

Winner of popular Middle-Eastern TV science contest eyes cleaner seas with nanotechnology device.

Activists welcome an historic climate compensation deal but decisions on details deferred.

Health associations in Nigeria say there is a dire need to regulate the herbal medicine industry, and standardise products.

Loss of schooling, displacement and abuse plague African children as a result of climate change, writes Afeez Bolaji.

Female farmers, hard hit by climate crisis, are underrepresented at talks in Egypt, writes Rahma Diaa.

The cost of living crisis in countries in sub-Saharan Africa is heightened by free fall of the currencies in those countries.

Brazil’s new president has a mountain to climb after years of budget cuts, analysts warn.

Loss and damage will be on the climate change agenda for the first time, experts told a SciDev.Net conference.

Replace tendency to delay critical climate decisions with long-term vision and immediate action.

“No credible pathway” in place to reach 1.5 degrees, world leaders told ahead of COP27.

The Nigeran government must invest in flood mitigation strategies

Science, policy and community collaborations drive climate change adaptation tools.

Region is world’s second fastest warming.

Women should be better represented at top of climate, food systems research structures, says Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg.

Coastal communities in Africa face food insecurity as a result of rising sea levels.

Compensation for irreversible climate impacts should lead negotiations at this year’s UN climate summit, say advocates.

The world is experiencing its third major food crisis this century. Can food systems become more resilient to shocks?

Doubts hang over wealthy countries’ climate intentions, say developing country alliance leaders.

Poverty, breakdown of social support and underlying mental health conditions are responsible for the uptick in suicide in Africa.