Author Archives: Jeff Barbee

Oil Drilling In The Okavango Watershed : Alliance Earth

Canadian company drills in community-run conservancies in the watershed of the world famous Okavango Delta. [ read more ]

Jeffrey Barbee showcases a new Tanzanian project on Patreon.

We know, being stuck indoors makes us all long for the outside world again. Trees [ read more ]

Jeffrey Barbee on India’s sanitation issues and what’s being done to alleviate it

A functioning toilet is something most of us pretty much take for granted. It’s not [ read more ]

Local communities in Tanzania are using technology to replenish fish stocks in the oceans

On Tanzania’s coastline, a new type of fish management system driven by cellphone technology has [ read more ]

MobilES has developed a way for our phones to contribute to stopping global warming in its tracks.

Climate change: the ever-present enemy has hit Cambodia hard. As with most things though, there’s [ read more ]

Alliance Earth’s Director Jeffrey Barbee helps explain the real tragedy of Cyclone Idai in Mozambique.

So many unknowns here still but I can share a few facts. The disaster has [ read more ]

Jeffrey Barbee goes back to varsity and shares his knowledge in Wales

An Alliance Earth Science Communication Workshop at Bangor University At the end of January 2019 [ read more ]

Mozambique’s Exame magazine publishes the latest story about the exploration of Mount Lico.

Finding a spot in Africa that’s undisturbed by mankind, is “incredibly rare” says Dr Simon [ read more ]

The Secret Garden

How Google Earth led a team of scientists to discover an untouched mountaintop rainforest. By [ read more ]

The Juneau Icefield Research Program – America’s Largest Climate Classroom

The Juneau Icefield Research Program North America’s Largest Climate Classroom Jeffrey Barbee interviews JIRP Alumni, [ read more ]

A ‘dream team’ of scientists scaled Mount Lico and found a wealth of new species

Standing in a pit in the red soil of a mountaintop forest in northern Mozambique, [ read more ]

Research group found pollinators of marine life swarming on turtle grasses.

As we celebrated World Bee Day on the 20th of May for the first time [ read more ]

With 8 million tons of plastic ending up in our oceans as plastic waste each year, it’s time to look at the health of our planet as a matter of urgency.

In 2012 it was estimated that about 165 million tons of plastic could be found [ read more ]

How much plastic do you use?

Our use of plastic is causing harm to Earth’s oceans and some experts say if [ read more ]

Jeffrey Barbee tells of his wild dog experience in the Ruaha National Park, Tanzania.

The Ruaha National Park, about 130 km west of Iringa, Tanzania, is known for its [ read more ]

‘Pops turns plastic trash into power’, read the Sunday Times article on Limpopo’s local inventor: Pierre ‘Pops’ Pretorius.

Inventor turns plastic waste into gas Local inventor finds way to generate gas from plastic [ read more ]

Alliance Earth educates and informs about the danger of plastic and how it does not only affect oceans and animals but human health as well

Did you know that plastic in many different forms is a known cancer risk? Like [ read more ]

Dung Beetle project is built from recycled metal to convert plastics into diesel and gas.

Alliance Earth has come up with a way to help reduce the plastic waste all [ read more ]

Jeffrey Barbee, The Observer: Africa’s new elite force: women gunning for poachers and fighting for a better life.

Abused and disadvantaged mothers and daughters are being honed into a squad of sharpshooters to [ read more ]

Sustainable Seas Are Possible: The Marine Megafauna Foundation

The Marine Megafauna Foundation celebrates a successful program to help return fisheries to local management [ read more ]

Massive Secret Data Leak Exposes Fracking In Botswana

The Panama Papers Expose How Fracking In Botswana was financed.

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Did Fracking In Botswana Cause Johannesburg To Tremble? -With the Daily Maverick.

Did fracking inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve cause Botswana's biggest earthquake in living memory?

Malawi Jails Loggers In First Case Of It’s Kind – With Reuters News Service

Last November, rangers in Malawi’s Lengwe National Park arrested 35 illegal loggers within the park [ read more ]

Mount Mabu 2017 – The Expedition

Mt Mabu, the "Google Forest" gives up more of her mysteries.

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Elephants Rock Around The (Tuli) Block – For The Daily Maverick

The Tuli Block in Botswana is one of the most geographically interesting places in Southern [ read more ]

The United States faces a polarising climate reality

As the 2016 election period comes to a close, Alliance Earth takes a look at [ read more ]

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Alliance Earth Partners with The Daily Maverick To Share Important Environmental And Scientific Stories

South Africa is among the fastest growing renewable energy markets, placing first in Africa and [ read more ]

AllianceEarth.org Partners with Doco360 to Create In Depth 360 Video Content

doco360.com and AllianceEarth.org form a partnership to create custom-made 360 video content that will bring [ read more ]

How to Rehabilitate Damaged Landscapes Together

Restoring landscapes and regenerating topsoil creates jobs and secures a future for people who rely [ read more ]

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Botswana sells Fracking Rights in National Park

The Botswana government has quietly sold the rights to frack for shale gas in one [ read more ]

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Life around New Mexico’s gas wells: how fracking is turning the air foul

By Jeffrey Barbee/AllianceEarth “My daughter has asthma. She is not the only one around here, [ read more ]

South African team may have solved solar puzzle even Google couldn’t crack

It is a problem that has so far stumped even Google’s brainy engineers – how [ read more ]

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Coal Mining Threatens World’s Greatest Rhino Sanctuary

The surface of a pool near the Imfolozi river ripples as a white rhino, its [ read more ]

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Female Anti-Poaching Team in South Africa Saves Rhinos

  This is part of our current partnership with the UK Guardian, LinkTV.org and public [ read more ]

How Renewable Energy Is Quietly Stealing A March on Coal

This report is made possible by a new Guardian and Alliance Earth Partnership. Solar, biomass [ read more ]

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An Undiscovered Mountain Reveals Its Secrets

Mt. Mabu is home to the largest rainforest in southern Africa, and hidden in the [ read more ]

An Open Letter To The New York Times

Dear Mr. Banquet, New York Times Editor As a former New York Times contributor I [ read more ]

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Mapping gas prospecting licenses in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve

We do not have independent confirmation that the gas prospecting licenses in the center of [ read more ]

The First Farmers Of The Karoo

This is Raymond Claasons, a Khoi San farmer from Barrydale in the Karoo. Raymond owns [ read more ]

Around The World With Solar

For those who worry that fighting climate change means sacrificing comfort, the luxurious Turanor might [ read more ]

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Natural Gas Production’s Dangers

See also: The High Cost Of Cheap Gas. As natural gas production fans out from [ read more ]

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