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Ghana's cocoa production is in decline, with aging cocoa trees and poor agricultural practices exacerbated by drought. B... Read more

The hallig islands in the Wadden Sea are used to flooding events. The local population is used to their land being swall... Read more

Golden monkeys can only be found in the Virunga Mountains in Rwanda. As their habitat is shrinking rapidly, a company's ... Read more

If you want to have light in rural Uganda, kerosene lamps are the method of choice. But these lamps are dangerous, unhea... Read more

For more than a millennium, Mexicans have been drinking pulque, an alcoholic beverage made from fermented agave juice. I... Read more

Cocoa is Ghana's main cash crop. After the Ivory Coast, the West-African country is the second largest cocoa exporter in... Read more

Millions of people living along the Rio Magdalena are feeling the sting of climate change, as fish stocks — and the rive... Read more

For centuries, the people of the Peruvian Andes have used their forests only as a source for fire wood. Now the mountain... Read more

African wild dogs are one of the most threatened carnivores in Africa. There are only a few thousand left. In Zimbabwe t... Read more

The Indonesian capital of Jakarta is sinking by up to 25 centimeters every year. Urban planners try to prevent the worst... Read more