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COP17 | FAO launches updated Guidelines to help countries manage competing demands for land, soil and water

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COP17 | FAO launches updated Guidelines to help countries manage competing demands for land, soil and water The relationship between biodiversity loss and climate change emerged as another important negotiating issue. PHOTO/IISD/ENB – Mike Muzurakis. By PATRICK MAYOYO [email protected] As pressure on land, soil and water intensifies, the updated FAO Guidelines for Integrated Land Use Planning (ILUP),…

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Africa: South Africa Retain Cosafa U20 Title As Mozambique Finish Runners-Up On Home Soil

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South Africa retained their TotalEnergies CAF Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations | COSAFA Qualifier title with a 2-1 victory over hosts Mozambique in Sunday’s final, completing a perfect tournament with five wins from five matches. Oarabile Booysen and Steven Mendes scored the goals for Amajita, who successfully defended their regional crown for a second successive…

South Africa targets 2030 for its first satellite launch from home soil

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South Africa could put a satellite into orbit on a locally built rocket by 2030 – if someone finds R3-billion and the team building it grows sixfold. That is the ambition of the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Aerospace Systems Research Institute (ASRI), which is developing the liquid-fuelled Saffire engine and the two-stage commercial launch vehicle (CLV)…

Africa: Cotton Farmers Could Earn From Soil Carbon Credits

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A scheme tested in Uzbekistan could let African cotton farmers earn twice over, once for the fibre and once for the carbon stored in the soil beneath their fields. Cotton has always paid farmers for what they harvest. Its next payout may come from what stays in the soil, as carbon held on African farms…

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Africa: Can a Newly Discovered Soil Fungus Stop the Devastating African Armyworm When Chemicals Have Failed?

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The African armyworm is a highly destructive migratory pest that damages maize, sorghum, millet and sugarcane. These caterpillars also cause indirect damage to livestock as they destroy grazing lands and pastures. The last major outbreak of armyworm in southern Africa was from February to April 2025. It affected South Africa’s KwaZulu Natal, Limpopo, Gauteng and…

U.S. and Saudi Arabia sign deal that could allow civil nuclear program on Saudi soil

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Washington — The U.S. and Saudi governments have signed a commercial nuclear deal that could allow Saudi Arabia to have a civilian nuclear program on its soil in cooperation with American companies, the U.S. Department of Energy announced Wednesday. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Saudi Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman signed what the…

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Africa: Grazing and Digging Put Some Herbivores At Greater Risk From Toxic Elements in Soil – New Research

eriinfo.com9 months ago010 mins

If you’ve watched a giraffe browsing in the tree canopy, a white rhino meandering across open grassland or a warthog shuffling around on its knees in South Africa’s Kalahari desert, you know what they eat: leaves, grass, shoots and roots. With every mouthful, they swallow something less obvious – soil. Some ingest more soil than…

The history of nuclear energy lies on British soil – does its future?

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The Sizewell A and B nuclear power stations, operated by Electricite de France SA (EDF), in Sizewell, UK, on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.K. was the birthplace of commercial nuclear energy, but now generates just a fraction of its power from it…

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Africa: Trump’s Next Africa Summit Must Be On African Soil – – African Leaders Should Insist

eriinfo.com1 year ago010 mins

When US President Donald J. Trump hosted five African Heads of State at the White House earlier this month — including Liberia’s Joseph Nyuma Boakai — it was touted as a high-level dialogue. A carefully staged “test run” for the larger U.S.-Africa summit Trump is expected to announce soon. But, as we have previously stated,…