Artist Farida Laimech lives in the Tunisian oasis town of Tozeur – at the heart of the country’s date production. She’s come up with a way to use the waste from date production – turning it into art while reducing trash.

To help as many people as possible grasp the severity of climate change, a short film is showing what exactly it's doing to our planet: a vicious cycle of population growth, melting glaciers and rising sea levels.

Professor Sani Abubakar Mashi is Director-General and CEO of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency - DW asked him what is behind Nigeria's current extreme weather. Is it caused by global warming? And who is responsible?

In Africa's greatest mammal migration, around ten million fruit bats travel from Congo to Zambia every year. But the species is under threat: they're hunted in Congo, and their forest habitat in Zambia is shrinking.

It's estimated that over 330,000 hectares of forests are lost annually in Zimbabwe. To make up the difference, nurseries are sprouting up around Mount Darwin that grow ready-for-planting seedlings for locals.

Nigerian entrepreneur Adebola Odenike is a hybrid car enthusiast. He wants to ease the country's congestion and pollution woes by getting clean vehicles on the roads.

A plastic bag ban in Uganda may propel banana paper to the forefront and create huge opportunities for local producers. It is an innovative technology and sustainable way to turn banana waste into something usable.

City dwellers have started virtual gardening and nothing has been left out to get that real earthy feeling. Now users can order plants, get 24-hour cameras surveillance and even measure the soil online.

Luckily for the Cape Flats, eland antelope have a taste for the invasive plants that are encroaching on its diverse ecosystem. Conservationists are reintroducing the animals which were once pushed out by urbanization.

Can poetry save the planet? A group of students at the University of Lagos thinks it can certainly help! They've set up the Parliament of Poets initiative, using poetry to educate people about the environment.