The latest environmental news from Africa, brought to you by UNEP/GRID-Arendal.http://www.earthwire.org/africa THE government nominated Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk yesterday to succeed United Nations (UN) climate chief Yvo de Boer, who announced his resignation last month. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090594.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090594.html 2010-03-09T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com HOW ironic. For years, the World Bank wants to lend SA money for development but SA keeps saying no. When it finally turns around and says yes, a couple of rich countries jump in to try and prevent the loan on the grounds, essentially, that SA isn't "first world" enough when it comes to clean air standards. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090467.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090467.html 2010-03-09T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com President Museveni last week described the landslide in Bududa as a great tragedy that should make the country rethink the practices that interfere with God's natural engineering. "seek better ways for a healthy co-existence between man and nature". http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090657.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090657.html 2010-03-09T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com A technical committee comprising of members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, ministry of Environment and Ecological Fund Office was yesterday set up to find ways of tackling the immense environmental challenges facing the country. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090705.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090705.html 2010-03-09T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com The Delta Government has restated its resolve to get major oil companies operating in the state to stop gas flaring in 15 months time. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090702.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090702.html 2010-03-09T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com Minister of Environment Mr. John Odey has said that the proposed dredging of the creeks and channels in the Niger Delta without environmental Impact Assessment is considered dangerous as it will submerged the communities if solid embankment to protect the shores is not put in place. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090699.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090699.html 2010-03-09T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com Bush fires and felling of trees have been a part of Nigerian history for hundreds of years; People used bush fires to their benefit to manage the land and as a hunting aid and trees are used as or sold for fuel or a commodity to be used by humans. Climate experts and agriculturalists have said these human activities have contributed to global warming and deprived the soil the key nutrients elements needed by plants in large quantities. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090554.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003090554.html 2010-03-09T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com Calestous Juma is professor of the Practice of International Development and director of the Science, Technology and Globalization Project at the Harvard Kennedy School. He also directs the Agricultural Innovation in Africa Project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Juma currently http://allafrica.com/stories/201003081019.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003081019.html 2010-03-08T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com United Nations agencies are ramping up efforts to assist around 2 million Chadians who will require food aid this year because of poor rainfall and lean harvests, the world body said today. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003081727.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003081727.html 2010-03-08T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com Women in West Africa have called for integration of women in the global effort to arrest the adverse effect of climate change on humanity. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003081153.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003081153.html 2010-03-08T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com The landslides that hit Bududa district last week could have been avoided if the locals had not destroyed the vegetation cover, the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) executive director, Moses Mapesa, has said. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003081024.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003081024.html 2010-03-08T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com The 290 kilometre long and 32km wide Lake Turkana is the world's largest desert lake, with about 48 different species of fish. The lake's location in a fragile environment makes it particularly prone to climate change. A more immediate threat though is the latest dam on the lake's permanent inflow. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003081310.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003081310.html 2010-03-08T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com ENVIRONMENTAL management inspectors say they are battling to prevent a large number of environmental crimes, many committed by well-organised syndicates serving markets in the Far East. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003081437.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003081437.html 2010-03-08T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com The impacts of climate change on natural resources could cost the Namibian economy between one per cent and six per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) annually over the next 20 years. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003070010.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003070010.html 2010-03-07T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com Delta State has set the pace in the global actions on climate change by being the first in the country to formulate a "Climate Change Policy" aimed at mitigating and adapting to climate change. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003070013.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003070013.html 2010-03-07T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com Local elites, vulture funds, and foreign companies are diverting funds meant for the rehabilitation of DR Congo's Inga dams. Over US$110 million remains unaccounted for causing delays and scaling back of dam rehabilitation schemes. Local communities are worst affected as the DRC?s resource curse engulfs the energy sector. JK http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=23087 http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=23087 2010-03-06T00:00:00-00:00 AfricaFiles Although Africa has contributed little to global warming, the continent and other parts of the developing world are bearing the brunt of the resultant climate change, according to scientists and development specialists. The question now is what to do about it before the fallout has disastrous consequences. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003060002.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003060002.html 2010-03-06T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com As they slept soundly on the night of Feb. 28, a family of four was killed when their house collapsed over their heads in Malawi's southern district of Chikhwawa. http://allafrica.com/stories/201003060004.html http://allafrica.com/stories/201003060004.html 2010-03-06T00:00:00-00:00 AllAfrica.com The first of two "citizens' juries" in West Africa on where future agricultural research ought to be focused, not surprisingly revealed clear differences between the citizens? views and what agricultural researchers are doing and thinking ? such as the farmers? emphasis on agroecology, whi http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=23093 http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=23093 2010-03-06T00:00:00-00:00 AfricaFiles As Egypt takes the helm of the African science council, AMCOST, it says it will sustain mounting support for science on the continent. http://www.scidev.net/en/sub-suharan-africa/egypt-says-it-will-propel-african-science-agenda.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_subsuharanafrica http://www.scidev.net/en/sub-suharan-africa/egypt-says-it-will-propel-african-science-agenda.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=en_subsuharanafrica 2010-03-05T00:00:00-00:00 SCIDEV.NET