
FOR the second year in a row, Earth will almost certainly be the hottest it’s been in human history, the European climate agency Copernicus said today.
The agency also said that for the first time, the globe this year reached more than 1.5°C of warming compared to the pre-industrial average.
Director of Copernicus Carlo Buontempo said: “It’s this relentless nature of the warming that I think is worrying.”

ROGER McKENZIE expounds on the motivation that drove him to write a book that anticipates a dawn of a new, fully liberated Africa – the land of his ancestors

While much attention is focused on Israel’s aggression, we cannot ignore the conflicts in Africa, stoked by Western imperialism and greed for natural resources, if we’re to understand the full picture of geopolitics today, argues ROGER McKENZIE