Rwanda is going through a water crisis. The government and NGOs are now joining forces to prioritize water management in the country. Using groundwater in drought-prone areas might help address water scarcity.

Haute cuisine without citrus, chocolate and pepper? More restaurants in Berlin are going local, using only products grown in the region.

A florist in Douala has decided to contribute to reducing the digital footprint. The environmental activist Honoré Bakop collects computer and television casings and transforms them into unconventional flowerpots.

Reunion, a tiny French island in the Indian Ocean, wants to switch completely to green energy production by next year. To reach this goal, coal-fired power plants will become biomass factories, solar and wind energy will be expanded.

Nairobi has seen a growth in "green" buildings in the past few years. Now a society is helping developers meet complex new building codes while also saving energy, building materials and water.

For years a young man in Cameroon has been taking trash and building models of cities to bring attention to the problem of waste. He hopes his work can shed some creative light on the difficult issue.

The number of solar panels and wind farms in Sicily have led to a shortage of land for wheat farming. The problem has been exacerbated by the war in Ukraine.

Oluwaseyi Moejoh is committed to making Nigeria a cleaner place. Lagos is choking in garbage and it is a threat to the environment and health. The student hopes her U-recycle initiative will make a change.

In southwestern Uganda, villagers have found a sustainable way of conserving a tree that produces a textile called bark cloth. In protecting this natural heritage, one tree can renewably provide cloth for decades.

The earth houses by architect Peter Vetsch bring to mind Hobbit holes. But their unusual exteriors conceal one of the most environmentally and climate-friendly designs available on the market today.