climate change

Northern Ethiopia has been hit by a number of pure disasters this yr. First, the worst 25-year-old grasshopper invasion destroyed a whole bunch of hundreds of hectares of crops and additional weakened meals safety within the Horn of Africa. One other damaging pure phenomenon is the report flood over the last wet season that displaced greater than 300,000 individuals within the nation. A brand new local…

Twelve more elephants have died in Zimbabwe, bringing the total death toll from a suspected bacterial outbreak to 34, wildlife authorities have said days after researchers accused water toxins of hundreds of elephant deaths in neighboring Botswana. "A total of 34 carcasses have been found ... but some others have not been…

Toxins in water produced by cyanobacteria killed more than 300 elephants in Botswana this year, officials said Monday, announcing the outcome of an investigation into the deaths that had confused and alerted conservationists. Cyanobacteria are microscopic organisms that are common in water and are sometimes found in soil. Not everyone produces toxins, but scientists say that toxins occur more often as climate change drives global temperatures. Cyril Taolo, deputy director of the Department of Wildlife and National…