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A graphic shows the outline of the modern area of the Antarctic continent, most of which is not covered by ice.

West Antarctica’s history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent’s ‘catastrophic’ geology

Christine Siddoway, Colorado College; Anna Ruth (Ruthie) Halberstadt, The University of Texas at Austin, and Keiji Horikawa, University of Toyama

A factory photographed from outside with a pipe sticking up into the air and large amounts of steam pouring out

Zambia’s factories burn too much coal – how reusing hot water can cut energy use

Paul Coughlan, Trinity College Dublin and Aonghus McNabola

Women protest with a placard that says 'Say their Names' bearing names of victims of femicide

Women’s voices at the G20: action urged on economic empowerment, care work, health, climate justice and forced labour

Narnia Bohler-Muller, Human Sciences Research Council

Why global environmental negotiations keep failing – and what we can do about it

Catalina Turcu, UCL

world leaders talking with headphones on at UN conference

Earth’s frozen regions are sending a clear warning about climate change – but politicians are ignoring it

Chris Stokes, Durham University; Florence Colleoni, National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS), and James Kirkham, British Antarctic Survey

melting ice, greenland coast in background

South Africa’s G20 presidency is over – what did it achieve for climate and clean energy in Africa?

Britta Rennkamp, University of Cape Town

The G20 South Africa emblem of a protea flower outside the meeting venue

Coral reefs have orchestrated Earth’s climate for 250 million years

Tristan Salles, University of Sydney and Laurent Husson, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

A coral reef in turquoise coloured water seen from the sky.

Climate change and inequality are connected – policies need to reflect this

Anda David, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and Rawane Yasser, Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

Informal settlement seen against the skyline of highrise commercial buildings.

Zimbabwe’s forest and energy projects reveal the downside of carbon credits

Fadzai Chipato, Great Zimbabwe University

A forest of trees photographed from the ground up

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Solutions

Crowd of people in the street, carrying placards and a large blow up planet Earth

Africa needs funding to adapt to the climate crisis – what negotiators need to do to secure it

Brian Mantlana, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and Basanda Xhanti Nondlazi, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

The three big reasons why Mozambique is not adapting to climate change and what needs to be done

Serafino Afonso Rui Mucova, Lúrio University

People lying down covered with white sheets in front of the COP30 sign as a form of protest

Land is Africa’s best hope for climate adaptation: it must be the focus

Peter Akong Minang, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)

A flooded small farm with a mountain in the background, with buildings collapsing and crops covered with muddy water

Yaoundé is set to sizzle at 38°C by 2030: how green design could cool Cameroon’s capital

Philippes Mbevo Fendoung, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

A silhouette of a city with a huge burning sun in an orange sky

Indigenous knowledge systems can be useful tools in the G20’s climate change kit

Benett Siyabonga Madonsela, Cape Peninsula University of Technology

A woman digs shallow trenches in the soil that are filled with water

Green Transition

A group of people holding signs that say 'fight big oil and win'

COP30: petrostates block climate deal once again, but some countries are taking their own decisive steps to phase out fossil fuels

Jordi Roca Jusmet, Universitat de Barcelona

‘Reduce, reuse, recycle’ is corporate gaslighting – the real change must come from the fossil fuel industry

Alex Lenferna, University of Fort Hare

A group of a few hundred people march down a city street, carrying a banner that says 'System change not climate change'

African countries gear up for major push on climate innovation, climate financing and climate change laws

Pedi Obani, University of Bradford

Two lines of people stand in front of a sign saying The Second Africa Climate Summit.

Africa’s ‘great green wall’ is stalling: in Senegal very few planted areas show progress

Annah Lake Zhu, Wageningen University and Amadou Ndiaye, Université Amadou Mahtar MBOW de Dakar

A sandy environment with a few sparse trees and a government sign in front

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Climate crisis

glasses with reflection of planet earth, on grass

Ecological myopia: the blind spot holding back climate action

Tom Pegram, UCL and Simon Dalby, Wilfrid Laurier University

Cattle inside cages with their heads sticking out eating hay

Factory farming in Africa: development banks see it as a good idea, but it’s bad for the climate

Divya Narain, University of Oxford

People in protective clothing and masks spray a smoky substance on the street

New report reveals how climate change is spreading infectious diseases to new regions

Tulio de Oliveira, Stellenbosch University; Cheryl Baxter, Stellenbosch University, and Maambele Khosa, Stellenbosch University

Climate crisis is a daily reality for many African communities: how to try and protect them

Decide Mabumbo, CGIAR

A woman stands inside her compound, in floodwaters up to her knees

Colonialism and climate risk are connected: evidence from Ghana and Senegal

Nick Bernards, University of Warwick

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Justice

People holding a banner next to a harbour. The banner says "Kick Total out of Africa" and the people have giant cardboard shoes attached to their legs and are making kicking motions

TotalEnergies: French court ruling over false climate claims could boost African cases against polluters

Zunaida Moosa Wadiwala, University of the Witwatersrand and Tracy-Lynn Field, University of the Witwatersrand

Children and young people at climate talks: seen, photographed, but not allowed to decide anything

Katie Reid, University College Cork; Aoife Daly, University College Cork; Independent Social Research Foundation, and Florencia Paz Landeira, University College Cork

Young children with signs saying "Try to leave Earth a better place than when you arrive" and "Global warming isn't a prediction - it is happening"

South African environmental groups push to block Shell’s new wells – how world court opinion might help

Angela van der Berg, University of the Western Cape

Should governments pay businesses for climate disasters? Researchers unpack huge lawsuits in South Africa

Tracy-Lynn Field, University of the Witwatersrand; Angela van der Berg, University of the Western Cape, and Chiedza Machaka, University of the Witwatersrand

A road that has been partly washed away by a river, exposing pipes which people are walking on

African debt and climate change: how the ICJ’s Vanuatu ruling could be used for broader justice

Danny Bradlow, University of Pretoria

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