Category Archives: Africa

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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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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 ]

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 ]

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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