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AfDB to make $30m investment in AFC to catalyse climate action
Blueprint Newspapers Limited
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December 16, 2024
The African Development Bank’s Board of Directors has approved a $30 million equity investment in Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) for the rollout of innovative “green shares” aimed at mobilising resources for climate action projects across...
NLÉ transforms historic site into a dynamic community hub Zaria Court – the first of its kind in Rwanda
Wallpaper*
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June 25, 2025
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...
Weather experts monitor potential tropical cyclone 6 and 2 more disturbances in Atlantic
Breaking Belize News
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September 9, 2024
Views: 0 Posted: Monday, September 9, 2024. 10:02 am CST. By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: Today, weather experts are monitoring a tropical disturbance that is expected to become potential tropical cyclone 6. This disturbance is expected to become a...
African Development Bank to make $30 million equity investment in Africa Finance Corporation to catalyse climate action
Fresh Angle
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The African Development Bank’s Board of Directors has approved a $30 million equity investment in Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) for the rollout of innovative "green shares” aimed at mobilising resources for climate action projects across...
KAUST students expand ocean science around Africa
Hydro International
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A wave of hands-on discovery and scientific storytelling marked the participation of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) students in OceanQuest’s inaugural “Around Africa Expedition.” Launched in January 2025, this deep-sea...
Weather experts monitor 3 tropical waves in Atlantic
Breaking Belize News
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September 3, 2024
Views: 0 Posted: Tuesday, September 3, 2024. 11:26 am CST. By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: Weather experts at the National Hurricane Center(NHC) are closely monitoring 3 tropical waves in the Atlantic. The first tropical wave is producing disorganized...
Weather experts monitoring 3 disturbances in the Atlantic
Breaking Belize News
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September 2, 2024
Views: 0 Posted: Monday, September 2, 2024. 11:00 am CST. By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: Weather experts at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) are closely monitoring 3 disturbances in the Atlantic. A broad and weak area of low pressure just offshore of...
Norway provides $4.5m to ARC’s SACPIP-Africa to strengthen climate resilience
Reinsurance News
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December 16, 2024
Norway, through the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, has provided NOK 50 million (approximately $4.5 million) to the African Risk Capacity Limited’s (ARC Ltd) Supporting Adaptation Capacity Through Increased Parametric Insurance...
Weather experts monitor 3 tropical disturbances in the Atlantic
Breaking Belize News
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August 30, 2024
Views: 0 Posted: Friday, August 30, 2024. 2:18 pm CST. By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: Weather experts at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) are monitoring 3 tropical disturbances in the Atlantic. A surface trough of low pressure over the northwestern...
Weather impact: Cooler temperatures today and Wednesday
WLTX 19 - South Carolina
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September 3, 2024
An area of low pressure will approach South Carolina late this week. The chance of rain will increase. Temperatures this afternoon will be a bit lower than we have seen lately, staying in the low to mid-80s. Some clouds will be around, but they...
MBC Annual Hearing Focuses on Climate Adaptations and Access for All to State’s Recreational Beaches
Winthrop Transcript - Massachusetts
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December 12, 2024
Special to the Transcript 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...
Beaches Commission Hearing Focuses on Climate Adaptations and Recreational Beaches Access
East Boston Times - Massachusetts
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December 11, 2024
Special to the Times-Free Press On Monday November 18, at 10am, the Metropolitan Beaches Commission 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...
Metropolitan Beaches Commission Annual Hearing Focuses on Climate Adaptations and Access for all to State’s Recreational Beaches
Revere Journal - Massachusetts
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December 11, 2024
Special to the Journal On Monday Nov. 18 at 10am, the Metropolitan Beaches Commission 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 from...
Climate and weather related disasters surge five-fold over 50 years, but early warnings save lives – WMO report
Pacific News Service
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Climate change and increasingly extreme weather events, have caused a surge in natural disasters over the past 50 years disproportionately impacting poorer countries, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and UN Office for Disaster Risk...
Weather experts monitor tropical wave with 80% chance of formation
Breaking Belize News
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August 10, 2024
Views: 0 Posted: Saturday, August 10, 2024. 9:37 am CST. By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: Weather experts at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) are currently monitoring a tropical wave located roughly midway between the Cabo Verde Islands and the Lesser...
Sailing: Boris Herrmann deploys weather buoy as part of Vendée Globe scientific mission
Monaco Life
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November 20, 2024
Just over a week into his 2024/25 Vendée Globe adventure, Malizia Seaexplorer captain Boris Herrmann has deployed a weather buoy off Cabo Verde as part of his commitment to gathering valuable scientific information from remote parts of the oceans...
Spirit of Tasmania IV leaves the Port of Leith
Ships Monthly
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July 3, 2025
The roll-on/roll-off passenger ferry Spirit of Tasmania IV departed the Port of Leith on 30 June 2025 and started the 14,857-nautical-mile voyage to Hobart. She had been docked there since December 2024, having been delivered by her builders but...
The Impact Of Air Pollution On Women’s Reproductive Health: A Gendered Study Of Severe AQI
Feminism in India
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November 28, 2024
With the Air Quality Index of Delhi-NCR oscillating between hazardous and very poor, the masked faces return to public spaces inhaling particulate matter. Delhi authorities have imposed GAP 4, restricting the construction and movement of...
ECOWAS climate centre uses COP29 to show its regional impact
University World News
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CAMEROON The West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use, WASCAL, a regional body that offers capacity-building and research-focused services in the fight against climate change, has showcased its work – and the...
US musician Grey Filastine’s Arka Kinari to dock in Kochi in 2025, spreading climate change awareness
Onmanorama
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November 27, 2024
Kochi: The Arka Kinari – a 70-tonne boat that has become the symbol of an artist couple’s convictions about their life and art – will touch the shores of Kochi next year. Since the vessel started its voyage with US-based musician Grey Filastine...