About 200 miles from Johannesburg, the Drakensberg region offers a breathtaking landscape of stark ridges and green valleys.

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African mountain ranges, including Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya, and the Ruwenzori Mountains, are facing accelerating climate impacts marked by melting glaciers, forest loss, and prolonged droughts.

Andrew Alexander King will never forget the first time he took on Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest peak and the world’s largest freestanding mountain, in 2018. But it wasn’t the summit ...

A new international study highlights the severity of climate change impacts across African mountains, how farmers are ...

Scientists studying tropical forests in Africa’s mountains were surprised to uncover how much carbon they store, and how fast some of these forests are being cleared. The international study reported ...

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An international study found that intact tropical mountain (or montane) forests in Africa store around 150 tons of carbon per hectare. This means that keeping a hectare of forest standing saves CO2 ...