relics of an era when South Africa produced about a third of gold ever mined on Earth. The mining companies left behind what's known as mine tailings, hazardous waste that has damaged the health ...

Aldicarb and terbufos - pesticides tightly controlled or banned elsewhere - are killing people in the nation's townships ...

In West Africa this causes the inter-tropical convergence zone—where moist air from the south meets dry air from the north—to migrate from the Sahel towards the Gulf of Guinea. These airflows ...

In Nairobi's infamous Dandora dumpsite, a sprawling expanse of waste ... hazardous waste shipments. They should invest in waste management infrastructure, enabling countries in the Global South ...

South Africa, Romania, Morocco and Turkey, Mr Akanat noted. Caesium-137, an industrial waste from the iron smelting process, is classified as Type 3 hazardous waste in Thailand and is strictly ...