More than 90% of the continent’s historically measured glacier area is gone. Scientists are racing to preserve the climate ...

Genomic surveillance can reveal viruses that targeted tests miss. But deciding which discoveries pose a threat requires ...

Nature underpins Africa’s economy and resilience, yet global biodiversity commitments lack implementation. Less than half of ...

In a new Nature Sustainability commentary, Professors Laura Pereira and Sally Archibald, and Dr. Kim Zoeller, together with 12 African co-authors, propose six guiding principles to ensure that climate ...

African policymakers, development partners and financial experts have called for greater use of natural capital accounting (NCA) to shape economic policy, attract investment and support sustainable ...

Africa's ecosystems are running on less than two-thirds of the natural energy they once had, according to new Oxford-led research published today in Nature. The study reveals a dramatic loss of ...

By Dr. Al-Hamndou DorsoumaAhead of the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP17), where the African Development Bank will join governments, ...

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has long been the world's main measure of economic success, rewarding activities that generate immediate financial returns. But Africa's wealth extends far beyond that, to ...

The African Development Bank Group has launched the second phase of its Mainstreaming Natural Capital in Africa's Development Finance project (NC4-ADF II), a multinational initiative to embed natural ...

South Africa resources explained: platinum, chrome, manganese, coal, gold, farmland, water and fish, who profits and the environmental cost in 2026.