On the Edge of Climate Change
'God commanded' family planning, says this Muslim leader in flood-ravaged Malawi
Into the 1990s, Malawi banned not only birth control, but sex education and even miniskirts. Now, attitudes toward contraception are changing under the pressure of climate change and rapid population growth.
Here's what happens when increasingly severe weather meets deforestation
Climate change-linked 'everyday disasters' are displacing the world’s poorest people
Tanzania is trying to turn the charcoal trade from an enemy to a friend of the forest
After the floods come the human traffickers, but these girls are fighting back
Zanzibar's 'Solar Mamas' flip the switch on rural homes, gender roles
On the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, hundreds of households too poor and remote to have access to the electrical grid are getting low cost solar power for the first time, from a group of local female engineers trained by and Indian NGO. It's the first of several "solar mamas" projects planned for parts of rural Africa, and it's turning some traditional gender roles on their head.
The flood of the half-century — and you probably haven't heard about it
The flooding has displaced nearly 200,000 people in Malawi, destroyed crops and brought fears of disease. In a region already prone to flooding, the future may hold even worse.