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Surprisingly minor changes in the water balance are enough to explain the lake level rises, finds study

Not exactly a popular sentiment. But combating global warming might need to take a radical turn.

Africa Science Focus investigates how communities are managing this plastic tsunami. This week, we speak to a team who set sail across Lake Victoria in a dhow made of recycled plastics and flip flops, and our reporter Michael Kaloki meets with activist James Wakibia, who’s taking his campaign against single-use plastics Africa-wide. Carole Excell from the World Resources Institute tells us what more governments and communities can do to protect people and the environment from plastic waste. And in this week’s Q&A segment, Kent Chizu from Highland Secondary School in Zambia has a question ...

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