African Environmental News on EarthWire

EarthWire/Africa gives you a free daily overview of environmental news from 14 countries in southern Africa.

Every weekday, a team of African journalists reviews more than 40 newspapers for environment-related news stories. Relevant stories are included in EarthWire/Africa where they can be viewed by country, topic, or time period. A search engine allows users to search for issues and keywords in the archive. Press releases and news from research organisations, the public sector, and environmental organisations are included as well.

EarthWire is used by government officials as a briefing on the day's environmental news, journalists following hot issues, students and researchers looking for current information on the state of the environment, and by anyone interested in current events and the environment.

EarthWire Africa covers more than 40 newspapers from Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Republic of Congo, Seychelles, Swaziland, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It is the second in a series of regional news services, the first of which was EarthWire/Norway. There is also a special edition of EarthWire for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. EarthWire/WSSD, partly financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Environment, is a joint initiative by GRID-Arendal and the South African Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism. Last year, we started EarthWire/Serbia as well.

EarthWire by Email

With EarthWire's email feed, you can get environmental news from Norway, Serbia and southern Africa emailed to you every day. The email service is free and allows you to choose whether you would like to get all news compiled for our EarthWire editions, or only news related to specified environmental topics or regions we cover. Register for EarthWire by Email at http://www.earthwire.org/africa/register.

For more information, please contact Lars Haltbrekken at UNEP/GRID-Arendal.