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For centuries the Makuleke community lived in the northeastern corner of South Africa, close to the modern-day border between Zimbabwe and Mozambique. But by the beginning of the 20th century, the squeeze on a disenfranchised community had begun, as they were forced to make way for the private game reserves that were springing up in the Lowveld.
A landmark new study has found that, in the last decade, Africa has started emitting more carbon than it stores. When the total amount of carbon that is sequestered by natural...
As the population increases, the trend is likely to continue
Knowing which parts of Africa best help to store carbon means funding and policy efforts can be directed to protecting and increasing this carbon ‘land sink’.
In only nine years between 2010 and 2019, Africa has turned from being a net carbon sink, to being a net carbon source.