Climate change may turn Africa's arid Sahel green
"The sheer size of the possible change is mindboggling," says one scientist
How to get climate finance down to where it matters?
Senegal, Kenya, Tanzania and Mali are pushing climate funding down to communities that decide how to spend it themselves
Malian women take up solar cooking to halt deforestation
Groups of women in rural Mali are being trained to use solar cooking technology.
Reducing disaster risk through gender and science initiatives
How can we foster better links between disaster risk reduction and gender initiatives to promote sustainable development?
Tech helps Caribbean communities take on climate change
Across the Caribbean, decision makers are realising a top-down approach isn’t always the way forward
Green-fingered Burkinabe women protect shea "gold"
The shea trees women in Burkina Faso rely on for income from their butter face threats of drought and deforestation
Asia most exposed to disaster risk, Africa likely to suffer more
Least able to prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters: South Sudan, Burundi and Eritrea
Farm technology helps clean up Nairobi's drinking water
Farmers terrace hillsides, reducing soil erosion and sediment in the main reservoir supplying Kenya's capital
In drought-hit Zimbabwe, women's "second shift" burden grows
Longer hours of unpaid work to gather scarce water, firewood and food are putting women – and their paid jobs – at risk