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ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Persons with Disabilities Bear the Brunt of Climate Change
Godfrey Mtimba
Masvingo–Persons with disabilities (PWDs) in rural Masvingo are worried by the increasing hardships they face due to climate change, including severe food shortages caused by erratic rainfall patterns in recent years.…
Drought has brought trucks of shame to Lupane
Drought has brought trucks of shame to Lupane
Nokuthaba Dlamini
Lupane—In rural Lubimbi and Gwayi, Lupane district, the drought has done more than dry up rivers; it is straining communities.
Year after year, the rains fail, fields…
Underground water contamination threats rise as boreholes mushroom—Experts
Chris Mahove
Harare—Harare’s persistent failure to supply clean and reliable water has forced thousands of residents to depend on boreholes — a survival measure that now threatens the city’s underground water safety.
According to the…
Chinese environmental violation spills into parliament
Brenna Matendere
Harare—Deputy Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister, Norbert Mazungunye, has come under pressure in parliament to explain why a Chinese company in Chegutu continues to defy a High Court order halting cement…
Outcry over invasion of prized wetland by land developers
Staff Reporter
HARARE—Harare West residents have come out guns blazing over the illegal clearing of land within the internationally recognised Monavale Wetland, a Ramsar site, by private developers. .
The outcry comes amid reports…