Zambia faces growing challenges from climate-related natural disasters, particularly floods and droughts, which have become more frequent and severe in recent years. These events disproportionately ...

The Zambian government refuted an independent estimate of how much toxic acid spilled from a Chinese state-owned copper mine in the southern African nation in February, and said a cleanup had begun.

At parties on the Lusaka diplomatic circuit, Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda often pointed to Vice President Simon Kapwepwe, his close friend since boyhood, and said fondly: “Look, there goes my ...

In the U.S., there are 574 federally recognized Native American tribes and Alaska Native entities, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior. As for Louisiana, the state is home to more ...

Planet China: Sixth in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world. A Chinese mining company that spilled toxic waste on impoverished ...

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The partial collapse of a waste dam at a Chinese state-owned copper mine in Zambia may have released 30 times more toxic sludge into the environment than previously reported, according to an ...

The Miccosukee Tribe is lauding a judge's ruling regarding "Alligator Alcatraz." When the news broke in Florida Thursday that a federal judge had blocked further construction at the migrant detention ...

JOHANNESBURG — A South African court on Friday ruled in favor of the government of Zambia and ordered that it can repatriate the remains of its former president and bury him in his home country, ...

The name Vlahakis is widespread in Zambia, thanks to a brave Greek man from the island of Crete called Nikolaos Vlahakis who arrived in southern Africa at the end of the 19th century. His descendants, ...