Tag Archives: South Africa

Beaches can survive rising sea levels if they have room to move

[ad_1] An international team of coastal scientists has rejected suggestions that half the world’s beaches could go extinct over the course of the 21st century. The claim was made by European researchers in a paper published in Nature Climate Change in March 2020 (Sandy coastlines under threat of erosion by …

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How bitcoin met the real world in Africa

[ad_2][ad_1] By Alexis Akwagyiram, Tom Wilson LAGOS / LONDON (Reuters) – Four months ago, Abolaji Odunjo made a fundamental change to his mobile phone business in a bustling street market in Lagos: he started paying his suppliers in bitcoin. Odunjo buys phones and accessories from China and the United Arab …

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