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Taking the chance out of agriculture in Cabo Verde
The impacts of climate change in Cabo Verde are evident with drought and pests hurting the productivity and incomes of the country’s farmers, like Elisabeth Da Conceiçao. ©FAO/Giuseppe Carotenuto 25/07/2024 The beans pop out of their sheathing as...

Best hot weather holiday destinations for every month of the year to avoid rain
If the start of a new year has you daydreaming about your next holiday, we've got loads of ideas to inspire your 2025 getaway. If you're on the hunt for hot and sunny destinations all year round, we've got you covered with this handy calendar...

ECOWAS Announces Mini Grid Power Project For 800 Cabo Verde Residents
News Investigators/ No fewer than 800 inhabitants of the Pico do Fogo volcano on the island of Fogo, Cabo Verde are to benefit from the electrification project announced by the ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE)....

Weather experts monitor AL94 in the Atlantic
Views: 0 Posted: Monday, October 14, 2024. 10:30 am CST. By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: Weather experts at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) are monitoring a well-defined area of low pressure located several hundred miles west of the Cabo Verde...

Weather tracker: Hurricane Oscar gathers strength in Atlantic as Australia swelters
Hurricane Oscar has become the 10th hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, battering the Turks and Caicos Islands on Saturday night and the far southern Bahamas on Sunday. The disturbance that eventually became Oscar was initially given a low...

Cooperatives drive change as OCP foundation expands support across Africa and beyond
In celebration of International Day of Cooperatives on July 5 and in alignment with the United Nations’ 2025 International Year of Cooperatives, Morocco’s OCP Foundation is reaffirming its commitment to strengthening grassroots economies through...

Weather experts monitor Hurricane Kirk and 2 tropical disturbances in Atlantic
Views: 0 Posted: Wednesday, October 2, 2024. 9:03 am CST. By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is monitoring Hurricane Kirk, currently located approximately 1,200 miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands. As of the latest...

As Trump’s big, beautiful debt gets ever bigger, let’s give thanks for the RBA
Bullock and the bank have copped plenty of criticism from both sides of the monetary policy debate over the past 14 months or so. Hawks reckoned the bank should have driven rates up much higher (in a move that certainly would have delivered a...

St. Augustine's July 4 weekend could be rainy. But a tropical storm?
A weather disturbance near Florida has a 20% chance of developing into a tropical or subtropical storm by the holiday weekend. Heavy rainfall is expected in St. Johns County, Florida, with potential flooding in low-lying areas like downtown St....

Jacksonville, Duval County 4th of July forecast
A weather disturbance near Florida has a low chance of developing into a tropical storm or hurricane by the July 4th weekend. The system could bring heavy rain, gusty winds, and increased rip current risk to Florida's Gulf and Atlantic coasts....

Weather experts monitor Tropical Developments in the Caribbean and Atlantic
Views: 0 Posted: Tuesday, October 1, 2024. 4:44 pm CST. By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: Weather experts at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) are closely monitoring a broad trough of low pressure. This system is producing disorganized showers and...

NHC monitoring 4 tropical waves. Could any reach Texas by July 4th?
A new weather system in the Atlantic is being monitored for potential development and risk to the U.S. The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is predicted to have 13-19 named storms, including 3-5 major hurricanes. Tropical Storm Barry made landfall...

Weather experts monitor Hurricane Isaac, Tropical storms Helene, Joyce and 3 tropical disturbances in the Atlantic
Views: 0 Posted: Friday, September 27, 2024. 9:10 am CST. By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: Weather experts at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) are closely monitoring Hurricane Isaac, Tropical storms Helene, Joyce and 3 more disturbances in the...

OCP Foundation Champions Rural Cooperatives Across Africa
Mrirt — The OCP Foundation is celebrating International Cooperatives Day today by reflecting on its decade-long mission to empower rural communities through cooperative development. The Moroccan organization works across 12 regions in Morocco and...

Dino D’Santiago and Os Tubarões concert at the MED Festival will be “special”
The festival director, Carlos Carmo, stated that the upcoming concert, featuring the Algarve-born musician of Cape Verdean descent and the iconic Cape Verdean band, will be “special and unique,” highlighting it as a “novel experience” with “the...

Winter sun destinations with hottest weather in January — Egypt, Lanzarote, Malta
Where can you go for some winter sun? (Picture: Getty) A winter sun holiday is just the ticket after the excitement of Christmas dies down and gives way to the dull and dreariness of January in the UK. In the southern hemisphere, January is one of...

Weather Alert: US Braces for Possible Hurricane Impact This Week
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is tracking an evolving storm in the western Caribbean that is expected to intensify and head northwards in the coming days, possibly making landfall in the United States by Thursday. A tropical storm will...
MBC Hearing Focuses on Climate Adaptations, Access for All to State’s Recreational Beaches
Special to the Journal On Monday Nov. 18 at 10am, the Metropolitan Beaches Commission (MBC) and Save the Harbor/Save the Bay hosted their annual hearing on the state of the beaches at the Massachusetts State House. The hearing featured testimony...

Lessons in Sustainability: Forging a Better Future
The year 2023 was named the hottest on record, and 2024 is on track to be even warmer. We are already feeling the impact of the climate emergency, but the problem runs deeper. Climate change is just one symptom of our planet’s health crisis. From...

NLÉ transforms historic site into a dynamic community hub Zaria Court – the first of its kind in Rwanda
Zaria Court, the adaptive reuse of a modernist building in Kigali, Rwanda, has just been unveiled, to a design by NLÉ, the studio founded by Kunlé Adeyemi (also behind the Floating Music Hub in Cape Verde) and now co-led by him and design partner...