Some fig trees don’t just grow fruit, they grow stone, too. By converting carbon dioxide into calcium carbonate, they may offer a powerful, long-lasting way to trap carbon. Credit: Shutterstock By PATRICK MAYOYO [email protected] In a surprising twist of nature, certain fig trees in Kenya are doing more than just bearing fruit, they’re capturing carbon…
Mount Everest. Mário Simoes/CC BY 2.0 Human waste, empty oxygen cylinders, kitchen leftovers and discarded ladders. Sherpas working on Mount Everest carry all that and more — 20kg/person — navigating a four-hour hike that traverses crumbling glacial ice and treacherous crevasses to bring trash back to base camp. During the most recent climbing season, they…
Watch: Rescue boat reaches father and daughter after she falls from cruise ship After his daughter fell from the fourth deck of a 14-deck Disney Cruise ship on Sunday afternoon, a father jumped into the ocean to try to save her, according to witnesses. Videos on social media showed passengers cheering as the two were…
Priya Sippy & Anne Okumu BBC News, London & Lilongwe Jack McBrams A chunk of Suzanna Kathumba’s meagre salary goes on school fees, leaving little for other essentials Suzanna Kathumba, a domestic worker in Malawi, spends every day thinking of ways she can economise to make her salary of 80,000 kwacha ($46; £34) a month…
CNN — As the US attempts to wean itself off its heavy reliance on fossil fuels and shift to cleaner energy sources, many experts are eyeing a promising solution: your neighborhood big-box stores and shopping malls. The rooftops and parking lot space available at retail giants like Walmart, Target and Costco is massive. And these…
Almost 4.5 million maternal, stillborn and newborn deaths were recorded in 2023. What if there was a clear path to saving 83 percent of these people? To saving 3.7 million mothers, unborn children and babies annually? According to the World Health Organization (WHO), this sort of large-scale life-saving is possible, if midwifery care is universally…
Nice, France — Once cast as a culprit of ocean degradation, the global shipping industry is quietly reshaping its image–with experts now betting on it as a key ally in saving our seas. Transporting more than 80 percent of global trade and generating over USD 930 billion annually, shipping is often perceived as an invisible…
Nigeria accounts for the largest volume of detected pangolin scales illegally traded from Africa. Between 2010 and 2021, 190,000kg of scales – representing nearly 800,000 African pangolins – were seized in shipments linked to Nigeria, despite a ban on international trade. Pangolins are scaly mammals found across Asia and Africa. They are considered the world’s…
