The solar researchers aiming to light up Africa
Can a new network of African energy researchers lead the way on solar power for the continent? Christine Ottery finds out.
2 February 2012 | EN

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Can a new network of African energy researchers lead the way on solar power for the continent? Christine Ottery finds out.
2 February 2012 | EN
Climate change will affect the water security of developing countries. Lucinda Mileham explores their priorities as they struggle to cope.
Getting the right technology into poor countries is crucial for fighting climate change but how should we go about it? T. V. Padma investigates.
Indian researchers propose using a type of algae as a source of biofuel — which could then be 'milked' from specially-designed solar panels.
Source: Scientific American
13 October 2009 | EN
Jatropha will not be saving the world anytime soon, say researchers, but it could work in local biofuel projects in developing countries.
Source: Nature
1 October 2009 | EN
Climate change is a reality in developing regions, who say the international community must not neglect better adaptation strategies.
4 September 2009 | EN
Hannah Chalmers gives the low-down on how reducing emissions from deforestation can play a central role in tackling climate change.
Remote sensing is crucial for getting the measure of forest loss. Countries don't need their own satellites but they do need training.
Locking carbon away as charcoal in the soil could help to mitigate climate change but whether it will work in practice remains a mystery.
Source: Nature Reports Climate Change
Using low-soot stoves in Africa and Asia would cut levels of black carbon, which warms the atmosphere.
Source: International Herald Tribune
Growing forests might be easy but getting developing-country forests onto the carbon market is proving more difficult.
Source: Nature
Yvo de Boer, the UN climate chief, speaks to SciDev.Net about getting clean technology into the developing world.
Climate change threatens food crops across the world. Now scientists are re-focusing their efforts on crop resilience, rather than yields.
Scientists in the Himalayas are battling poor resources to protect the area from the effects of climate change. T. V. Padma reports.
Attempts to adjust gross domestic product across China by accounting for its toll on the local environment are floundering, Jane Qiu reports.
Source: Nature
Faced with a changing climate, projects to help Africans adapt are springing up across the continent, reports Patrick Luganda.
1 August 2007 | EN
India won't halt development to avoid greenhouse gas emissions but is taking steps to adapt to climate change that is already inevitable, reports T. V. Padma.
31 August 2006 | EN
T.V. Padma looks at how and why greenhouse gas emissions from India are on the rise.
18 August 2006 | EN