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Environment

Recycling — answer to urban garbage

Local councils are failing to collect refuse from companies and residential areas throughout the country.

Environment

Acid mine drainage water can be put to use

Toxic water from derelict gold and uranium mines has reportedly destroyed Elize Strydom’s dream to be a farmer in her retirement.

Environment

Met office rules out drought

The Meteorological Services Department says farmers must expect normal rainfall to start this week.

Environment

Farmers struggle to determine right planting time

When hailstorms and heavy downpours hit parts of Zimbabwe in early October, farmers here were quick to begin preparing their land for the traditional planting season.

Environment

Recreational parks now an eyesore

Most recreational parks in Harare, designed to provide relaxation in an atmosphere of beauty, have become an eyesore.

Environment

Illegal dumping sites — health time bomb

A major health hazard is looming in Bulawayo due to uncollected garbage piling up in most high-density suburbs and undesignated points in the city centre.

Environment

Climate change to affect Africa’s MDG achievement — Report

Africa’s aim of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 as set by the United Nations is likely to be affected, a new report by four international institutions says.

Environment

Climate change, development interlinked

African countries should mainstream climate change into their development policies, planning and practice as a way of building capacity in the face of changing environment conditions.

Environment

Climate change threatens health, agriculture

Climate change will be “catastrophic” to health and agriculture, and could foster African instability and insecurity, Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) scientists, environmental health and agriculture experts warned yesterday.

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Climate change spawns incredible droughts

Plants and animals are fast getting depleted because global temperatures are getting warmer with water sources drying up, African Union Commission (AUC) deputy chair Erastus Mwencha said here yesterday.