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Pace of warming threatens Africas new maize varieties
2016-06-22 12:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: It can take up to 30 years to improve a crop variety, test it and persuade farmers to adopt it. That means the speed of climate change in Africa could make a new variety of maize useless even before the first harvest, according to new research. But two separate studies that address the challenge of food security in a rapidly warming world suggest that the answers may lie not just in future weather but in todays soils. One says that better soil data can be used to predict surer levels of...
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Report: Growth in South Africas construction industry to be driven by infrastructure development
2016-06-03 01:00:00| Airport Technology
A new report by Timetric reveals that the construction industry in South Africa is projected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) 2.62% from 2016 to 2020. The growth is a slight improvement over the CAGR of 2.33% recorded between 2011 an
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Elephants could vanish from one of Africa's key reserves within six years
2016-06-01 11:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Elephants could disappear from one of Africas most important wildlife reserves within six years unless industrial scale poaching is stopped and mining is brought under control, the WWF has said. Selous national park, a world heritage site in southern Tanzania, has lost an average of almost 2,500 elephants a year since the 1970s. But it has now reached a crtitical stage with only about 15,000 left, according to the latest census. The population is at an historic low. and urgent measures are...
Africas most vulnerable face an even hotter future
2016-05-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Already home to some of the most environmentally vulnerable populations on the planet, Africa looks to increasingly feel the sting of climate change through more frequent, widespread and intense heat waves. Extreme heat that would be considered unusual today could become a yearly occurrence there by mid-century, one new study suggests, and the trend will emerge earlier there -- and in the rest of the tropics -- before it does in more temperate areas, another finds. The studies, both detailed...
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Can Johannesburg reinvent itself as Africas first cycle-friendly megacity?
2016-05-24 11:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Minibus taxis are our biggest problem. They are dangerous. They just dont care, says Lovemore as he joins us on a dusty corner in Johannesburgs Diepsloot township. We are waiting for a group of cyclists to form near the minibus queue, which in the half-light of 6am already stretches around the block. Lovemore consults his smartphone. Around 100 cyclists living in this informal area of makeshift shacks and dirt roads on the edge of South Africas biggest city use WhatsApp to coordinate their journeys...
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