Tag Archives: Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s new dinosaur discovery: inside the find

Visitors to Lake Kariba, the world’s largest man-made lake located on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, come to enjoy the rich wildlife, beautiful fishing or spectacular scenery. But in 2017, our team of paleontologists came to Zimbabwe to hunt a different kind of game: dinosaurs. Many of our discoveries are still being studied, but… Read More »

Rewind. Fast forward. African farmers are looking everywhere to tackle climate change

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the African continent heavily reliant on agriculture are looking to the past and the future to respond to climate change. Africa, with the world’s youngest population, faces the worst impacts of a warming planet while contributing least… Read More »

Rewind. Fast forward. African farmers are looking everywhere to tackle climate change

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the African continent heavily reliant on agriculture are looking to the past and the future to respond to climate change. Africa, with the world’s youngest population, faces the worst impacts of a warming planet while contributing least… Read More »

White farmers in Zimbabwe live and die by the toxic legacy of Mugabe’s brutal land grab

Philip Rankin and his wife Anita inspect their tobacco crop just before their farm was seized in 2016 – TSVANGIRAY MUKWAZHI Philip Rankin had long hoped to receive compensation after his family farm in Zimbabwe was confiscated because he was white, but cancer caught him first. The 65-year-old farmer died in early December, nearly seven… Read More »